Im also asking this on TUMBLR to see what the general consensus is
Whats the chance of you guys returning to r/196 if the sub comes back?
3 years ago by Xxxthat_emo_kid to c/196
transgwender 34 points 3 years ago
The real 196 was inside us the whole time??? 🥺 👉👈
Kaladin_Stormblessed 11 points 3 years ago
yep, this is definitely the 196 i know and love lmao
markipol 12 points 3 years ago
Yeah, it's a bit of a wake up call/eye opener for me. Why would I stay on a site that fully adheres to the rule "if a service is free, the user is the product". When there's now perfectly good non profit alternatives. Also, this is why Facebook/Twitter/Google etc need to either stay well away from the fediverse or just get defederated. As soon as they start participating they'll just start taking over and trying to monetize the platform.
asukii 4 points 3 years ago
I mean, realistically I'll probably stay on both. There are tons of great reddit communities that just don't exist here, at least not yet, and I'm genuinely sad to be losing them. Reddit has been a part of my daily routine for well over a decade now, and that's not something I can just give up easily. I do really like the vibes here at Lemmy, but it's got a lot more growing to do before it can fully replace all the wonderful different niches that reddit was able to fill so well.
transgwender 16 points 3 years ago
Im not counting on reddit to make substantive changes. Plus, it is kinda nice here, more calm, better vibes for other stuff
Kaladin_Stormblessed 3 points 3 years ago
i like the small community vibe :)
markipol 6 points 3 years ago
Yeah, this tbh. I understand there's got to be basic rules, but shit like title formats and most of the time your post not going through (because of X automatically enforced rule like automatic hiding or deletion if you put a certain word or phrase in the title/post body) is just maddening. One time I did a post and the message the mod sent me explaining what was wrong with my post was almost as long as the post itself lol. I really hope this doesn't start happening with reddit alternatives.
And yeah, the sheer size of reddit makes it almost impossible to interact with people on large subreddits. Especially if you're commenting on a post that's like 12 hours old on a large subreddit, your comment will never get seen just because of the deluge of already existing comments.
PrivateNoob 5 points 3 years ago
Ahh a fellow Digg migrant. I kneel.
oldmanspidey 16 points 3 years ago
@Xxxthat_emo_kid im replying to this post from mastodon just to see how this works, since I heard you can follow lemmy servers/groups and interact with posts from a mastodon account. but yeah if the sub came back id still browse it if I'm still using reddit by then.
murkeyindividual2 2 points 3 years ago
How did you find it from there?
oldmanspidey 6 points 3 years ago
@murkeyindividual2 I found the URL to the 196 lemmy from the subreddit before it went private. I learned out that you can find lemmy communities through mastodon by typing "@[CommunityName]@[lemmy instance]" into the search bar. The lemmy community shows up as a mastodon user that you and follow and such. It's very interesting and kind of ingenious. So I thought why not just use my mastodon account I already have rather than make a new account just for lemmy.
oldmanspidey 4 points 3 years ago
@murkeyindividual2 on second thought actually, I'm gonna make a lemmy account. Mastodon UI us just not built for handling lemmy communities well. Still figuring this out lol.
murkeyindividual2 1 point 3 years ago
Thank you so much! I couldn’t figure it out and didn’t know before I made this account. I’m very excited to try it out!
lazy_digestive 2 points 3 years ago
Hey I was kinda trying to get to use Mastodon. What instance do you recommend?
lazy_digestive 1 point 3 years ago
I have even less clue about what is this and how it works, but I'll still check out, dear Internet stranger
oldmanspidey 1 point 3 years ago
@lazy_digestive right now I am part of a mastodon instance dedicated to the competitive Super Smash Bros community. I am a tournament organizer for Rivals of Aether, which is also a platform fighter (the same genre as Smash). A lot of people who play Rivals came from the Smash community, so it made sense for me to make an account on this instance as its a general community I am part of. I'd say try finding an instance for an online or IRL community you are part of and try to join.
oldmanspidey 1 point 3 years ago
@lazy_digestive On Mastodon, you have an additional "Local" timeline which is a timeline showing all the posts of the people in your instance. So you can stay connected to people through that. I know a lot of the larger instances can feel impersonal because of their size, and a bunch have turned off signing up for new accounts because of a large amount of people wanting to sign up from the Twitter exodus last year.
ArrayOfCrows 12 points 3 years ago
not going back to reddit if i have to use the ad infested, data harvesting, accessibility nightmare that is the official app.
give me apollo or give me death
animelivesmatter 12 points 3 years ago
I'd probably return there too, but I don't think I'll leave here. The 196 lemmy has actually been pretty cool so far, even though it's only been here a couple days. I'd probably just browse both.
omni_memer 8 points 3 years ago
prob gonna gradually reduce my reddit usage anyway, but i might check it out periodically
murkeyindividual2 8 points 3 years ago
I will probably not. I don’t really care for reddit especially given the changes they’re making.
RayeRei 7 points 3 years ago
yeah idk. its good for me to be off reddit. ill miss some of my insular halo lore arguments on reddit but lemmy seems fine so far so ill probably stay here.
really depends on the nsfw tbh it was coveiniant to have distinct but easily switchable acounts for sfw and nsfw
ReveredOxygen 6 points 3 years ago
I quite like it here, but if everyone else goes back to Reddit, it'll become rather hard to scroll here
colin 6 points 3 years ago
this is the first i've actually engaged with 196. i knew of it, and visited the reddit a couple times, but it's way more fun to be a part of it here, where everything about this is new and exciting. i'll stick around here for as long as the vibe's good, and if i dip it'll be back into group chats -- not to reddit.
tanja 2 points 3 years ago
Used to love Relay for Reddit.
Noe r/196 is gone, why go back?
Also, now that !rust@lemmy.ml is here, really, why go back?
Rotekoppen 2 points 3 years ago
@Xxxthat_emo_kid theres a great chance as its still what im more familiar with, itl be fun to see what ill think after being in reddit celibate for a week
Lux 10 points 3 years ago
In case your serious:
- Redditor creates r/195 (that was their dorm number), which has the rule that you must post before you leave
- r/195 dies (i think the og mod just stopped modding, but it's hard to find info with the reddit blackout)
- r/196 is created with the same rule
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196
@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.
Rule: You must post before you leave.
Other rules
Behavior rules:
- No bigotry (transphobia, racism, etc…)
- No genocide denial
- No support for authoritarian behaviour (incl. Tankies)
- No namecalling
- Accounts from lemmygrad.ml, threads.net, or hexbear.net are held to higher standards
- Other things seen as cleary bad
Posting rules:
- No AI generated content (DALL-E etc…)
- No advertisements
- No gore / violence
- Mutual aid posts are not allowed
NSFW: NSFW content is permitted but it must be tagged and have content warnings. Anything that doesn't adhere to this will be removed. Content warnings should be added like: [penis], [explicit description of sex]. Non-sexualized breasts of any gender are not considered inappropriate and therefore do not need to be blurred/tagged.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us on our matrix channel or email.
Other 196's:
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196
@lemmy.blahaj.zone
19651
19250
2408
Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.
Rule: You must post before you leave.
Other rules
Behavior rules:
- No bigotry (transphobia, racism, etc…)
- No genocide denial
- No support for authoritarian behaviour (incl. Tankies)
- No namecalling
- Accounts from lemmygrad.ml, threads.net, or hexbear.net are held to higher standards
- Other things seen as cleary bad
Posting rules:
- No AI generated content (DALL-E etc…)
- No advertisements
- No gore / violence
- Mutual aid posts are not allowed
NSFW: NSFW content is permitted but it must be tagged and have content warnings. Anything that doesn't adhere to this will be removed. Content warnings should be added like: [penis], [explicit description of sex]. Non-sexualized breasts of any gender are not considered inappropriate and therefore do not need to be blurred/tagged.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us on our matrix channel or email.
Other 196's:
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If the r/196 vibe stays here I'm gonna keep vibin here. I'm liking lemmy so far and don't forget: the community isn't the subreddit - we just happened to be on that subreddit. 196 can be anywhere we want baby 🤠
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