this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2026
352 points (92.1% liked)

Lemmy Shitpost

38939 readers
5128 users here now

Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!


Rules:

1. Be Respectful


Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.

...


2. No Illegal Content


Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.

That means:

-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals

-No CSA content or Revenge Porn

-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)

...


3. No Spam


Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.

-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.

-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.

-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers

-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.

...


4. No Porn/ExplicitContent


-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.

-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.

...


5. No Enciting Harassment,Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts


-Do not Brigade other Communities

-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.

-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.

-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.

...


6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.


-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.

...

If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.


Also check out:

Partnered Communities:

1.Memes

2.Lemmy Review

3.Mildly Infuriating

4.Lemmy Be Wholesome

5.No Stupid Questions

6.You Should Know

7.Comedy Heaven

8.Credible Defense

9.Ten Forward

10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)


Reach out to

All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Una@europe.pub 10 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I didn't know you can use letters as phone number and call it.

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 22 points 4 days ago (3 children)

This is the most Zoomer comment I've ever seen

[–] wieson@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The practice of using the T9-letters to memorise a phone number is just not done much outside the USA

[–] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Even referring to them as “T9-letters” is a massive neologism. Those letters have been on telephones going all the way back to the very first rotary phones when you were first allowed to dial a number yourself without talking to an operator. Before, you’d tell the operator you wanted “Wabash 3 - 1234” and they’d connect you to number 1234 on the Wabash 3 exchange. To dial that same number when the dial telephone came around, you would dial WA3-1234, or 923-1234.

Here’s a great film from 1940 introducing people to the idea of dialing on a telephone and explaining how to use the letters: Internet Archive Link

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yep I know about it from American media but never seen this done anywhere else that I know of (and I know how to type T9).

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

As certainly not a zoomer I can safely say I'm glad they are gone, nothing is more annoying than those letters.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It corresponds to 1-800-784-8669

1000014023

[–] Una@europe.pub 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nice, never heard of someone using letters on phone numbers. I did used to send text messages like this.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oh! I assumed you were too young to have known about texting like that. I forgot that that marketing style isn't very common outside the states. They're called vanity phone numbers btw

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What did you think the letters on the number buttons were for? Nostalgia?

[–] Una@europe.pub 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I suppose if you're young enough you wouldn't have known landline phones had the letters, too. 🤔

[–] Una@europe.pub 2 points 3 days ago

I know, still have 2 but rarely use them.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago

This makes me feel old.