Genuine Coffee Slut

[tiniestmousegirl]

[justplainrain]

[whale-blanket]

[video: gianni matragrano, cosplaying as columbo, walks up to a kitchen counter and says: “hi there. uh,” (loud fumbling for his wallet, opening it to show an id) “lieutenant columbo, LAPD, homicide department.”

he puts his wallet back. someone uses twitch points to overlay someone throwing a pipebomb onto the screen. gianni says, trying to contain a laugh, “pipebomb.” the pipebomb explodes. cheering erupts. end alt text.]

[animalwoonz]

nose job turkey

[ironmyrmidon]

Rule

[woamna]

Rule

[natingtoncat]

I'll never let this flame die out.

[genuinecoffeeslut]

But why should I make a better life for myself when I can just listen to music and imagine that I'm super cool?

[theoneofwhomisblue]

[mega-gaymer-party]

[darkavenuetragedy]

[harald-iii-of-norway-deactivate]

[spookylilraven]

[irisxerno]

is this actually a thing? reblog if you are real and from 196

[smalltestaccount]

196 is die

[rateaters-sutff]

[dadisonthewise-deactivated20230]

I rlly fucking hope conservatives are right and that queer people will be the fall of western civilization that would be fucking awesome

[legendling]

can someone please explain to me what happened to reddit and why all the redditors are moving here i am so lost-/genq

[atleast8courics]

Reddit administration (the CEO, in particular) has decided that they're going to charge an exorbitant amount of money for their third-party app API usage (something to the tune of $12,000 for what Imgur, which exclusively deals in heavy bandwidth usage pictures and videos, would instead charge a whopping $166) in a move designed to price out those same apps (especially Apollo and RIF is Fun) and force everyone browsing reddit on mobile onto reddit's dogshit official app (itself originally third-party).

This creates some rippling, compounding issues: those third-party apps are infinitely better than the official app. This isn't subjective or hyperbolic. They are ALL better in multiple different ways, not least of which is the tools available to volunteer moderators being much, much easier to use and somehow even more fleshed out than on the app maintained BY REDDIT. This change will drastically alter how many mod teams do their duties, something they, as previously mentioned, volunteered for, which reddit is now making more difficult for them. Moderating on the official app is like pulling teeth.

This change will, in turn, drive spam content through the roof on many subreddits from repost bots and bad actors phishing for your credit card details (something I've personally dealt with on the subs I mod), but especially NSFW ones which any user who isn't a moderator will lose access to on third-party apps.

These changes will ALSO affect many bots that subreddit mod teams have come to rely on to keep their communities safe, free of brigading and general asshole behavior, or otherwise do fun things for users like remind them of something in the near-future at their request, as every bot not named AutoModerator (reddit's homegrown robot lacking in functionality (seeing a pattern here?)) uses these same API protocols. In an attempt to save face, they've at least reversed course on this particular aspect of the changes.

And finally, these changes will have an appalling, unacceptable effect on the blind, as they rely on things like screen readers and volunteer transcribers to use the website. They will more or less be driven off of the site wholesale. Spez (the CEO) mentioned two apps to help the blind when this question came up in his disastrous attempt to calm tempers during his Q&A. Neither app is good, and are Android exclusive. Anyway, can you guess which other app doesn't play nice with screen readers? If you said the official reddit app, you'd be correct. In a vacuum, these changes seem bad. And you're right, they are. But they're even worse than that: these changes, like many changes before them, are hoisted upon the armada of volunteer moderators without warning, without consultation, with broken promise after broken promise of "it'll come later" to the endless requests of tired VOLUNTEER moderators. Mods have had enough of dealing with reddit administration's shit, including me.

[legendling]

oh m a n,, thank you very much for the info! ill do my best to accommodate any incoming reddit refugees--

would you also mind explaining the r/196 tag I'm seeing on the posts? i think I saw a post explaining the gist of it, but I want to make sure I have all of my info correct.

[atleast8courics]

I sure can. It's one of the subreddits participating in the blackout. It's primarily a queer-aligned shitposting safe space that I and my mod team have done a hell of a job keeping free of more toxic elements of the site. We polled our users if we should participate in the blackout, taking the sub private, and it was overwhelmingly a "yes". We further polled for the requisite 48 hours or indefinitely, and indefinitely won out, so all the lovely little gay shitposters have mostly migrated here and a few other places. Most of the "refugees" are now using the #196 tag to share memes at each other.

[kawaiiiuniverssse]

Is there a reason it’s called 196? Like is there a certain meaning to the number or is it just random?

[atleast8courics]

Uh oh time for a lore dump. TL;DR at the top because I'm a kind human: 196 is merely a continuation of 195, itself originally being a college house number for a group of roommates.

So, 195 was the college house number of a group of roommates who made the 195 subreddit so they had somewhere to send goofy pictures to each other. The only rule (other than site-wide rules) was "if you visit this subreddit, you must post before you leave." It didn't matter what. It could have been a simple picture of your plate of food. I saw lots of mile marker signs with 195 on them. It always seemed to elicit a laugh, no matter how esoteric.

Anyway, they were pretty openly hostile to bigots, so it lead to one of them getting doxxed. Another got scared and quit reddit after that incident. A third basically stopped using reddit altogether as they moved on from college. The last one is still on reddit but doesn't comment often. It led to the original doxxed guy dealing with the sub on his own, constantly being barraged by people saying and sending awful things to harass him. After time he just got tired of it. With the admins jumping down his throat to clean up the nonsense combined with his life getting busier and busier, he closed it.

It was basically the very next day I and a ton of other people migrated over to 196 to continue the same kind of space because the 195 "community" had grown to a huge number of subscribers as well as being a pretty good place for shitposts that weren't the worst memes you've ever seen in your life.

196 already existed but was an empty space that sat dormant for years up to this point. We jokingly celebrated the sub's 10 year anniversary despite only using it for two at this point. Anyway, the original head mod added one guy as a mod. I offered a helping hand and was also made a mod. We collected a small team of people, some of which have since also left, who also wanted to keep the space free of bigoted nonsense. I became the defacto head mod (and later actual head mod after the two above me vacated) just because of the sheer volume of posts I was removing and people I was banning. There's a few of the mods on tumblr alongside me, and if they see this I'm sure they'll pretty freely tell you just how ridiculous my output is.

We opened a pretty thriving discord server that's loosely affiliated (the admin is a sub mod) and even have spin off versions of the sub, both ran by our mod team. 19684 has the same rule, but hornyposting/sex mentions aren't allowed, and 169 has a bot that will instead ban you for a random amount of time after posting.