==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

If you have any issues, please reach us at 196mods@protonmail.com. PLEASE do not dm me, as I am not consistently available and tend to step away from the mantle for weeks to months at a time.

  • animelivesmatter@lemmy.world
    2316·
    2 years ago

    how tankies are still surprised that fascist apologia gets them banned in an antifascist community is beyond me

  • Rekticulum@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1153·
    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
    66·
    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
      661·
      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
        13·
        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
          211·
          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.

  • 100beep@lemmygrad.ml
    342·
    2 years ago

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

    • Moss@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
      725·
      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
                  61·
                  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
                  41·
                  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.

      • vd1n
        4·
        1 year ago

        I might be lost, but what does 196 mean?

  • Gormadt@beehaw.org
    331·
    2 years ago

    Ah yes, some good news today as well

    Happy to see this community is starting off on the right foot

  • 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

        • Wispy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          252·
          2 years ago

          Thinking communism is a good system and sucking of dictators is a bit of a difference isn’t it lol.

          I literally today saw a post celebrating and congratulating Xi for being a leader for so long, you know, while forcing that no one else could take power.

          Also associating communism with authoritarianism is very saying.

            • barsoap@lemm.ee
              181·
              2 years ago

              Communism has never been implemented. We had “really existing socialism” which then drifted off into state-capitalist tyranny, capitalist tyranny, or straight tyranny. Cuba and Vietnam fare better, they’re drifting towards democratic socialism.

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

              No, i don’t consider it succeeding if there’s a dictator in power. Is that a hot take? Again, I’m fairly anti-capitalist too. I am also anti-authoritarian, and thus also against dictators. Hence i do not consider Xi’s CCP
              Successful.

              Edit: what barsoap said is also true. China utilizes a capitalist system as economy. Do you really think those factory workers own their factory themselves? If so, how are there so many Chinese billionaires? Billionaires shouldn’t exist in a communist society.

            • smooth_jazz_warlady@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              141·
              2 years ago

              MLs be like “the state will wither away bro, I swear it will work this time” and then create an authoritarian nightmare society again.

              Although at least you’re not getting anywhere with your stupid military fetishism, because you cannot topple an existing power through force of arms unless the state military is in tatters, and with the threat of nuclear war preventing any kind of large-scale engagement between major powers, good luck waiting for an opportunity.

              The only way to topple a major developed government now is through the Union of Unions, striking with enough of the population to break the economy in half, and bring the establishment to the bargaining table with two options: give us what we want, worker democracy, or we take away your access to food, water and power. And if that worked, and then you authoritarian fuckers tried to pull your usual shit on us in the aftermath, we’d just strike again until it was your turn to choose between worker democracy or dying of thirst with no food and no power to make your demise any more comfortable.

              Go and start, or join, a fucking union, and try to make things marginally better for your fellow workers, instead of doing nothing but sucking Stalin’s necrotised dick over the internet.

              • MxEli@lemmy.world
                7·
                2 years ago

                Go and start, or join, a fucking union, and try to make things marginally better for your fellow workers, instead of doing nothing but sucking Stalin’s necrotised dick over the internet.

                I just need you to know this made me let out the loudest damned snort. Perfect description, 10/10 no notes.

            • Organism
              1·
              2 years ago

              I’m surprised with how much brain rot you have that you can still talk at all.