Rule

- But aren’t jokes supposed to be like, funny or something?
  
  According to an unsourced claim on Wikipedia, "repetition is the essential comedic device"
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedic_device
  
  Don’t think it’s a joke. It’s just a thing that is done
- I blocked that community because it was literally flooding my front page
  
  I almost did but every now and then they have something good, so I kept it... For now
  
  Same.
- Yep. 196 communities are getting pretty highly upvoted too which is why you’re seeing them so much when browsing all.
  
  I mean they're also one of the main meme communities atm. Most of the other ones don't have near as much traffic
- 196 communities?
  
  https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=r%2F196
  I only knew because someone else explained it a few days ago
  
  C/196@lemmy.blajah.zone pr something like that
- Literally the first thing I did after getting into Lemmy was blocking all of the 196 communities. Literally brain-rotting
- I thought I also saw, at some point, a post saying the only rule was your post had to have "rule" somewhere in the title. (Probably in response to people making their required one post and already putting rule in the title). And after that I feel like I saw a lot more posts with rule in the title.
  
  I'm pretty certain it's not a rule there, everyone just kind of assumes it's what you're meant to do when they post, because they see every other post.
  Kind of a self enforcing unofficial rule, I guess?

Communities usually named 195 or 196 have a rule that if you go there you have to post something. So people will post something and title it "Rule." And it leads to a bunch of low effort crap posts.
Just block any 195 and 196 communites to save your feed from getting overwhelmed with bad posts.
- Even though, I am no fun of low effort content, there is so few active community that it's a bit refreshing to see content, even low effort, also they spread to much over Lemmy, that looks like it'll contaminate lemmy's culture which is great to become something else than redditfugees
  
  If you think there are few active communities on Lemmy, you may be looking in the wrong place.

There is a community called 196, their only rule is to post something before leaving.

Rule 34
- Not that rule
  
  The rule is post something before you leave, not "don't post rule 34" before you leave.

What's the history behind the 195/196 name?

So glad I blocked that dumb shit. I really wish people would leave Reddit behind when coming here.
- I like it. It adds a lot of content to my feed, even if most of it is shitposting
  
  Yeah I can't blame them for posting content. It's not ideal that 169 and shitposting take up 80% of my feed, but it's better than nothing, right?
  
  I like it too. Back in Reddit I never saw/heard about that community. I have grown fond of their humor here on Kbin. It gets at least a couple of laughs a day, and I've even laughed out loud on some occasions.
- Well ain’t you just a peach
- Could be worse. At least we don't have "dubs" threads like 4chan does.
  Turning dubs back on right before he left was the final middle finger from moot, I suspect.
  
  I have no idea what any of that means, but I’ll definitely take your word for it.