• janNatan@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I see. So far the only thing I’ve minded is that I don’t understand the titles. Do you mind telling me what 196 means? I get that it’s a Lemmy community. But why 1, 9, and 6?

    Edit: I visited the page and the community info wasn’t any help. I did follow the rule, though. Neat idea.

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      r/195 was the original group. The name came form the creator’s dorm number, and it had the same rule that current 196 has. r/195 was closed, iirc because the creator didn’t want to moderate it anymore. r/196 was created as a continuation of r/195. r/196 died with reddit, and moved to this community on lemmy.

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      It’s from Reddit. A group of roommates made a meme subreddit named after their apartment number. I think that was actually r/195, and they got bored and closed it, so r/196 was a spinoff of the original meme community.