==please incorporate the word rule in your post titles==
Here are the things that get you banned:
-saying anything remotely iffy with a lemmygrad or hexbear account
-tankie behaviour
-nazi behaviour
-authoritarian behaviour
-genocide denial
-prejudice of any kind
-anything else that is clearly bad

Things that get your post/comment removed:
-AI generated content
-anything in the banlist
-posts that are so off topic that they don’t fit on 196 at all
-moldy memes (old memes, crusty memes, irrelevant memes. The type of things you’d see on your aunt’s Facebook page or Elon musk’s Twitter account with a laughing emoji as the caption)
-corpoposting

Ban length varies, and is mostly based off of whether or not I think you will change your behavior. I have baned certain people for upwards of 2000 days.

---------EDIT:NSFW RULES---------
NSFW Content is now fully permitted BUT it must be tagged. Any NSFW content that has not been tagged and blurred will be removed. Content warnings should also be added to the title in brackets. Example: [penis] or: [explicit description of sex].
Non-sexualized breasts of any gender are not considered inappropriate and therefore do not need to be blurred/tagged. Yes, even female breasts.

IRL GORE IS NOT PERMITTED UNDER ANY CONDITION.

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Please leave any suggested edits in the comments.

JAN 2024 UPDATE: MOLDY MONDAYS
Monday is now moldy Monday. on this day and only this day moldy memes are not only allowed, but encouraged. The crustier the better. The type of thing that’s been reposted at least 2,000 times with filters and bad crops and watermarks and hopefully minions. please caption with moldy rule

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      • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
        111·
        1 year ago

        You deleted your comment, but I can still answer. Basically, both home servers tend to revolve around alt-left fascism, so we’re extremely wary of what these users have to say.

          • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
            13·
            8 months ago

            “why do you want communism?”

            “because I want to tell people I disagree with to shut up, at gunpoint. also I love uniforms and the general aesthetics of the USSR. also some economist from 200 years ago said it’s what’s next, so we gotta”

            so not to do with any actual communism, egalitarianism, etc, or any actual left stuff, or people not dying on the streets anymore, or liberation of thd human spirit; just red star brand reactionary bullshit. I prefer their yeast.

            • Serinus@lemmy.world
              7·
              5 months ago

              And if you question them, they’ll whine that you haven’t read their list of a dozen, esoteric books, so clearly you don’t know anything.

              But if you ask them to make a coherent point from one of those books, they can’t. Apparently the only way to understand their concept is to read a million words on it.

              In reality it’s just anti-West, pro Russia and China.

              • Soluna@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                2·
                2 months ago

                As someone who used to be in those circles, it wasn’t always like that but quickly devolved into it. And I went along with it not even really because I believed everything that was there but because that was where all my friends were, and I tried questioning some of the principles but was then met with cold responses like “why are you questioning us?” And so I kind of just went along with everything. It took me a long time to get de-radicalized, but it’s something to keep in mind that a lot of what keeps communities bound like that has nothing to do with the politics and everything to do with maintaining social connections. Which isn’t to excuse any of it, but just provide a succinct explanation for how and why they proliferate.

          • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
            112·
            10 months ago

            I should actually be using the term “far left”, as after research, as far as I can tell “alt left” is a term used by alt rights (i.e. neo Nazis, white supremacists and the likes) as a knee jerk reaction to whoever calls them alt right. My bad on that.

            Examples of far left governments are China and the USSR, with policies that concentrate power at the government and makes it difficult for people to hold power and have a voice.

            As for fascism, it was historically considered inherent to far right governments, but some argue that far left governments that fit most of the characteristics of fascism should also be described as such, hence far left fascism, but it could also be described as far left authoritarianism.

            • Moss@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
              10·
              7 months ago

              I wouldn’t call those far left at all personally. authoritarianism and fascism are blanketly not leftist systems of government

              • Moss@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
                15·
                7 months ago

                The concept of a tankie is a person with the cognitive dissonance necessary to both have majority leftist ideology yet still believe in and support authoritarian governments

                • Cadenza@lemmy.world
                  7·
                  5 months ago

                  In my country, we simply call them “authoritarian communists” or, still today, “stals”, for “stalinists”.

              • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
                5·
                7 months ago

                Right, my above comment was a bit disjointed. The vocabulary gets a bit vague when it comes to putting a political spectrum on a 1D axis.

                My concern with my comment is that I wouldn’t know where to put, e.g., the Chinese government on the political axis. It’s both communist-like yet authoritarian.

                • Moss@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
                  8·
                  7 months ago

                  haha You’re all right. I think something like the Chinese government is definitely one of the more difficult ones. It has its roots in communism, but at this point it’s very much a capitalist autocracy with high social investment and surveillance. authoritarian for aure

                • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  1 month ago

                  China is right wing. In the extreme. They have centralized authority with strong top-down hierarchies. There is nothing leftist about them in the least.

                • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
                  3·
                  1 month ago

                  This makes no sense. Those are the same thing. You do not have one without the other. The right is about neither. The right is purely “do what we say”. Nothing more and nothing less.

            • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
              4·
              8 months ago

              nobody would call them far left. it’s not particularly far left. its authoritarian, even the political compass has more nuance here, cmon man.

              • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                21·
                7 months ago

                I’ve seem many people from Europe refer to communist parties and Russia as far left because they do embody certain socialist ideas that are leftist but take it well beyond the point of being a good thing, so in this regard yes they are far left. Thing is you absolutely can go way too far with any philosophy. I do agree that what they did with the political compass is good though because it reflects the actual nature of being an extremist socially while also representing the economic value, though in these situations they are still very far to the left of countries with economies that aren’t exclusively controlled by state (North Korea is a great example).

          • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 month ago

            There is no such thing. It’s just fascism. That they try to call themselves leftist makes no difference to the objective facts or fundamental definitions of the political spectrum.

            It’s like when rightists try to claim they are all about freedom, while advocating for fascist policies. If you advocate for fascist policies, you are right wing and a fascist. The labels you are attempting to appropriate are inconsequential.

  • Rekticulum@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    59·
    2 years ago

    TFW the other leftists wont let you try to subvert the movement into “the people’s fascism”

    they are ruining leftist unity

  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
    34·
    2 years ago

    Because of the Reddit migration, 196 is coming up in my Lemmy feed a lot, I have no idea what it is (because you haven’t made a description).

    This could be your chance to gain more community members if you update your description

    • Silverstrings@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      35·
      2 years ago

      Well sort of the point of 196 is that you can post almost anything, the only rule is that you have to post each time before leaving. This rule isn’t enforced for obvious reasons, unlike the ban against tankies.

      • Quetzacoatl@feddit.de
        10·
        1 year ago

        before leaving as in before switching to another community while browsing? or as in when you unsubscribe? and what if I never leave

        • Silverstrings@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          15·
          2 years ago

          I have no idea, I think it means whatever you want it to mean. Usually folks interpret it as visiting the sub and then going to a different one but you could also interpret it as leaving permanently, like I said it isn’t actually enforced. It’s just meant to encourage lots of irreverent posting.

  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    I’ve got a slight suggested edit

    Basically the first item to get banned adding Hexbear to the list with Lemmygrad

    I’ve been seeing a huge influx of tankie takes from hexbear accounts all over (and here) since they federated

  • 100beep@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    2 years ago

    I was wondering when someone would start discriminating based on what instance you made your account on…

    • Moss@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
      27·
      2 years ago

      You can use 196 on a lemmygrad account, but because it’s by definition a tankie Lemmy site, you’re basically on probation.

              • IriYan@lemmy.world
                6·
                1 year ago

                Now this is a wider issue, the Red Army did liberate the largest part of Europe from Nazi rule, the US basically tried to liberate France but the Red Army was in Germany before the US crossed the border. In Yalta the three, US/UK/USSR divided the pie, Spain and Greece went on the other half and remained fascist till the 70s (meaning anticapitalists were executed, prisoned, exiled, etc). Yugoslavia went its own way. The US UK handed Hung/CZ over to them, but unlike other places the USSR had to use force to take over what was given to them in the pe cutting.

                This is not defense of tankie-ism it is pretty much what happened. Now between 90 and 2024 the 90/1 agreement was no Nato expansion beyond its current borders, and that was severely violated by NATO, to the last ring around the chain being Ukr and Belarus. So the not so red not so hot army anymore had to either react or accept total defeat and submission to NATO. There was no alternative for Russia other than to turn history back which in 30y proved impossible.

                I am not passing judgement on which dictator is better, I hate Biden as much as the next guy, but the narrative of recent history appears to have left out all petitions to the UN filed by Russia for the violation of the agreement. The UN’s excuse, NATO is not a UN member, and you can’t blame any particular state member of NATO for what NATO does. Unfortunately a state (Russia) which wasn’t part of the Yalta agreement the SU was, signed an agreement with NATO, not with any particular country. They should have had a better lawyer and not a drunk for a president.

                So Russia will evolve to yet another oil-rich country that is blockaded and cut-off from world markets like Iran and Venezuela. Unlike Iranians and Venzuelans Russians get really nasty when they get pissed, hungry, or out of vodka. So this is not going to go well too far too long. We shall see. Oil production and distribution, held by a handful of US based multinationals, will increase their profits in a further restricted oil market. So Iran, Russia, and Venezuela’s isolation does serve a profitable industry’s interests.

                • 💚🌲💙⭐⭐Romulus / Keith 🌹🍺✌⚽@mastodon.cloud
                  6·
                  1 year ago

                  And nothing else you said about this supposed memory hole of UN claims makes sense.

                  “The UN’s excuse, NATO is not a UN member”

                  Wouldn’t Russia, a permanent member of the UNSC since its inception, know how the UN works and that NATO is not a UN member?

                  “a state (Russia) which wasn’t part of the Yalta agreement the SU”

                  Didn’t Russia inherit all treaty agreements of the USSR? I’m pretty sure they did.

                  The problem isn’t the UN covering up petitions, the problem is the agreement never existed.

                • 💚🌲💙⭐⭐Romulus / Keith 🌹🍺✌⚽@mastodon.cloud
                  5·
                  1 year ago

                  Regarding the “90/1 agreement”… maybe not.

                  Was there a signed treaty to that effect?

                  https://direct.mit.edu/isec/article/40/4/7/12126/Deal-or-No-Deal-The-End-of-the-Cold-War-and-the-U

                  Even if we accept that such a deal existed, in what way would invading legally neutral countries (uh, again) be an appropriate response to its violation? State aren’t forced to join NATO, in fact, it’s pretty difficult unless NATO wants you in.

                  So Russia should have instead invited countries to join CSTO to offset NATO.

                  Unfortunately Russia can’t compete, so it has to use force.