==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
    61·
    10 months 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
        7·
        7 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
          3·
          3 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.

      • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
        41·
        8 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
          4·
          6 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
            8·
            6 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
              5·
              3 months ago

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

          • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
            2·
            6 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
              3·
              6 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

        • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
          1·
          7 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.