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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • I think I can answer that, although I’ve never actually seen it explained, so it’ll be interesting to see if anyone else has a different take.

    The Lemmy posts with “rule” in the title are all made to the 196 community. Per the sidebar, rule #1 of 196 is “you must post something before you leave.”

    Putting “rule” in the title is basically shorthand for “I don’t have anything specific to say, but I have to post, so here’s some random shit I find funny.”

    At least, that’s how it started. At this point, it’s evolved into a bit of a meme in its own right.


  • Most of the feeds I subscribe to came to me in one of two ways:

    1. I enjoyed reading an article posted somewhere else (Lemmy, etc.) so I sought out the feed of that publisher.
    2. Sometimes news outlets enter into agreements to republish each others articles. When they do this, the re-publisher will usually include a little blurb at the end giving credit to the original publisher. If a feed I’m already subscribed to has an article re-published from elsewhere then I click through and check out the original source to see if I want to follow them as well.