Pardon this rare text post, but I’d like to talk about the community for a moment. On August 3, 2021, I created this subreddit hoping to find others who get distracted by floaty things like I do. I knew this would be really niche, but after a year, there are 256 airheads here! I feel like my original set of seven rules did the job well and I recently made them official, reportable rules. Our original ten post flairs have also passed their flight tests and I don’t need to change them. By the way, post flairs aren’t strictly required, and if I see a post without one, I’ll just flair it myself. I did add 100 user flair emojis that mean nothing, use whatever you like. I recently added an RES-compatible night mode for Old Reddit based on the night mode I made for /r/wordle, but I made some additional tweaks for Old Reddit and New Reddit.

Your votes have helped me gain more understanding of what’s universally cool about floating, and what I might just be weird about. Some posts get boosted unfairly when I crosspost them to other subreddits, but I get the idea.

Here are the top ten posts of the first year of /r/FloatingisFun:

  1. Harta #91 cover by Katsu Somehira Space - 58 votes
  2. Senpai! I Can Float! by Hanako (Jiji) Weightlessness - 44 votes
  3. Flip Flappers Blu-ray volume 6 cover by tanu Levitation - 41 votes
  4. Minion in the Museum by Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Balloons - 36 votes
  5. Flight Magic Night by kou Levitation - 26 votes
  6. Tetra Cube α #2 by D D a l Space - 24 votes; submitted by /u/GilgameshWulfenbach
  7. Wunder by Kazari Tayu Space - 25 votes
  8. The Wind Rises by rtil Wind power - 24 votes
  9. Flying Magic OWO by Kutsu Levitation - 22 votes
  10. Kiki’s Delivery Service fanart by MyMoonJelli Multiple types - 21 votes in 4 days

So basically, y’all like cute things. You prefer fantasy floating over real things floating, characters over inanimate objects. Oh, and you really don’t like video submissions, but short gifs are OK. It matters less that it’s floating in an interesting way and matters more that the post is generally really cool and detailed even without its floating context.

Thank you for all your support. This subreddit is still young, and I need more input from the peanut gallery. Please post floaty things you think are cool. Basically everything that floats in the air is permitted as long as you follow the rules: credit the creator, link to the source, and avoid reposts, littering, distress, and NSFW content. Bring your best and we’ll continue to soar to new heights!

  • hitstunOPM
    2•1 year ago

    Originally posted on Reddit August 3, 2022

    Hi, this is 2023 Hitstun speaking here on Fedia. I know what you’re thinking:

    What do you mean “first year”? This Kbin magazine was just created 24 days ago!

    And it has been my mission to repost over all content from the old subreddit, in chronological order, including its 1st anniversary post. Besides, at the moment this Kbin Magazine got 322 subscribers in 24 days, more than we had in the whole first year on Reddit! Thanks, Lemmy/Fedia time zone bug!

    As it stands, I just started reposting the second year’s content. While the second year on Reddit was much slower than the first, I’ll still be in the middle of reposting the second year’s content when our 2nd anniversary happens on August 3, 2023. At that time, I’ll break chronological order and make a new text post like this one with the top-voted posts of our second year, which includes some reposted first year stuff on Fedia. At this rate, I will finally get back to posting new content, about one post every couple days, starting in late August 2023. I’m looking forward to finally posting some of the new stuff I’ve found in the past month.

    …Wow, it’s only been a month since the original subreddit went restricted? And we’re already the 8th-biggest magazine on Fedia? And we have by far the most threads of any magazine on Fedia? Is this the only magazine with the whole “repost all the content from the old subreddit” idea? It’s a lot of work, but future floaty-curious users will thank us for it.