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Rule: You must post before you leave.

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The transphobia stops now (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This community is housed on an instance run by two trans women, focused on the needs of the queer and gender diverse community.

We allowed 196 here because we were promised the community is queer and trans inclusive.

If you're here it's because you're aggressively supportive of trans folk. Not middle of the ground, not "just asking questions".

If your response to that is, "yes, but..." then this isn't the instance for you, and by extension, this isn't the community for you.

tl;dr - Unambiguous support and inclusion, or fuck off somewhere else.

Edit - I changed the phrase "aggressive support to "unambiguous support", as there was some confusion over the intent behind my previous phrasing.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Just wondering what does 196 means anyway? Clueless lemmy user here.

Ps I'm ally of LGBTQ2S+.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Back on Reddit some dude and his roomates made a subreddit called r/195 (their dorm number). It only had one rule, when you visit, you have to post a meme. Eventually the public found the subreddit and started posting their own memes. It got huge and out of hand and some awful stuff started getting posted so they finally deleted the subreddit. That disappointed a bunch of people so a sequel was made, r/196. This community is a recreation of that second subreddit.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

This should be in the sidebar so the lore isn’t lost.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

196 was a shitposting subreddit back on, uh, Reddit, which had one rule - you had to post before you left.

It became known as a very trans-friendly shitposting subreddit and honestly probably one of the better shitposting subreddits in general.

Now it's migrated at least partially to the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

All I know is that 196 communities have The Rule which is that you must post something before you leave.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@Lightsong

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Sorry if I'm being dense but how does that relate to transphobia? Do the messages they post tend to be transphobic or something?