I don't know what everyone means when they use 'rule' in the title and at this point I'm too afraid to ask. Please enlighten me.
That's because the "rule" of !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone is to "post before you leave"... That creates a lot of random posts that all have some kind of "rule" in the title. Sometimes these posts get popular and you see them in your feed.
For the curious, the original was actually /r/195 on Reddit. It started as a joke between some college roommates, in dorm room number 195. Then it eventually got popular as a sort of shitposting community. But the original 195 was basically unmoderated (because it was just a couple of dudes in college who started it for shiggles,) and was eventually brigaded and taken over by alt-right neonazis. The memes quickly devolved into straight up Nazi propaganda.
So 196 was created as a sort of “new” 195, and that original brigade and subsequent takeover is why a lot of the 196 memes tend to lean hard left. The 196 sub was sort of a rebellion against the 195 takeover, which means that conservative stuff quickly got shut down. It eventually became a sort of safe space for transgender memes as a result. From there it became a sort of self-sustaining reaction where trans people saw it as safe so more trans people gravitated towards it.
Thank you for the detailed explanation! I remember seeing it on reddit, but never knew why.
It's always seemed so wholesome to me how the trans folks are such a huge part of what makes that sub awesome but also it's not a "trans sub", so you get all these people there for the memes also experiencing fully normalized transness
What if I visit the community/magazine without posting? How do they know?
Straight to hell. To the boiler room of hell. All the way down.
B.A.N.N.E.D.
No, they don't know buddy, ha. It's meant to be a non-serious rule for a non-serious community.
Santa puts you on the naughty list.
Is it really worth the risk?
The man knows. The man knows everything about you. They’re always watching.
We actually made INGSOC from 1984 do it for us, we're very evil that way.
Isn't it a rule to have rule in the title as well?
It’s not, but it’s become sort of a de-facto tradition to cite the fact that you are posting because of the rule by adding the word “rule” cleverly (or, sometimes, not-so-cleverly) to the title
Every Rule post, including this one, provides clues to the nature of the underlying RULE. Once somebody actually figures out what the RULE actually is, it is posited that the fediverse will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams strikes again.
Time to go down to the Grampy Store and get you your official belt onion.
"I'm afraid to ask" is such a werid thing to say on the internet. Nobody knows you. Just ask.
Just what were you touching that you ran out of touches? You need to see a doctor. Here, see a doctor:
rule
The very first community I blocked - let those who enjoy it do so but I do not. Unfortunately, the Fediverse shows you everything by default rather than things that you more or less want to, so blocking communities lacks the negative implications here that like blocking someone's phone or email address would elsewhere. So like if you want to block sports, you have to do so for every single team, league, and even type, plus all the new communities that continue to be made in the future. This is just the Fediverse's normal.
Unfortunately, the Fediverse shows you everything by default rather than things that you more or less want to
Uh no, that's a good thing.
It "can" be, especially for those of us who want and even explicitly ask for such, but I was pointing out how the lack of tools to do otherwise removes it as a "choice". Being able to switch between modes at will would maximize our freedom and capabilities, but simply having things be this way bc nobody has yet built the tools to do otherwise does not make it the best option, only the default one.
I'm struggling to understand what you think should be different here. You're complaining about the "All" feed, but you can also view only a "Local" feed from your home instance, or "Front Page" which only includes your subscriptions. At least this is how Connect has it set up. The two alternatives seem to be either you see nothing until you subscribe to a community, meaning you have to seek them out on your own, or your app/Lemmy creates a "Default" community list, favoring some communities over others and becoming more like reddit, both of which are terrible options.
A couple things. From my experience with Lemmy, you can subscribe to communities you want to see, the same way you could subscribe to subreddits. There's a subscribed feed, a local feed, and an all feed.
The way Reddit handled this is that there was a default set of subreddits that everyone would get. Things like /r/pics ... Whether you were browsing as a guest or as a user, by default, you could see that sub. I believe there was an option for "all" but nobody used it AFAIK. So you started with a small default (whatever Reddit thought you should see), and went from there. I'm sure, in more recent times on Reddit, it will also show you things that the algorithm wants you to see, either because Reddit is being paid to show it to you, or because it's adjacent to your currently subscribed subreddits.
Lemmy isn't substantially different when it comes to the subscribed feed, with one big exception: you don't really start with anything. So the subscribed feed is pretty bare, but the local feed is full of anything on the same instance as you are, and the all feed is everything that's local or has been brought in by federation. There may be some limits on this, for example, to NSFW stuff, but I'm not certain and it's likely up to the discretion of each Lemmy instance admin to make those choices.
The difference is in an exclusionary mindset vs an inclusionary mindset. Reddit follows an exclusionary mindset, eg. We're only going to show you what you say you want and exclude all others. Lemmy is more inclusionary, where you will see everything unless you say otherwise.
The same functionality exists here, like it did on Reddit, to only see what you're subscribed to, but you have to go and find what you want, subscribe, and then stick to your subscribed feed.
I've personally spent a lot of time on the /c/all feed specifically to find what communities I want to subscribe to so eventually, I can just stick to the subscribed feed. I'm not too the point where I think the subscribed feed has quite enough communities to keep me engaged, but I'm getting there.
The option exists and you don't need to block entire communities to get there, but you can use block for it if you want. There's nothing wrong with either methodology.
You don't know what "rule" means? Ah, you're a fucking meat circus mate.
Now all these f*ing zoomers are telling me that I'm out of touch!?
Oh yea? Well, your fucking phones are poisoning your minds, ok?
So when you develop a dissociative mental disorder in your late 20s don’t come crawling back to me.
how fleek.
Deep cromulence.
The rule is you have to post something before you leave