• SingularEye@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    back on the Old Site there was r/195 which was somebody’s apartment number and started out with just their friends. then it got popular, was flooded and became hard to moderate; the mods shut it down in what was known as The Experiment. This was the birth of r/196, which thrived before shutting down the second Reddit API shit hit the fan. And so here we are, on Fedi.

      • gothicdecadence
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        The main rule was that if you visited the sub you had to post a meme before you left, (obviously unenforceable) but that’s why all the posts have “rule” in the title. It ended up being a very queer friendly and fairly horny subreddit, somewhat notoriously so lol

      • _hovi_
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        2 years ago

        New here too but wym he just said apartment number was 195, new subreddit became 196

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    2 years ago

    Good question! We get asked this a lot. Hope this helps!

  • Treatyoself
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    2 years ago

    Thank you for asking. I too, had no idea and was too afraid to ask.

    I feel like Reddit really suppressed my curiosity to post questions like this because they’d either get downvoted to hell, get shite responses, or just taken down.

    • SubsAndDubs
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, curse you for not reading the sidebar or using the shite search to find your answer.