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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yep. Not my first experience with it here or elsewhere.

I miss the internet that existed before smart phones because of the intellectual dilution they allowed.

Kids today have no idea what it's like to be in an internet discussion that is majority phds and having to up your game to participate.

The vast majority of commenters today would be dismissed as trolls; that bar has disappeared.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Mate I’m in my late 30s. I’ve been online since before the Internet even existed.

No one wants a return to usenet groups and incels circlejerking each other about how smart they are.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

I've been online before the internet existed

What does this statement mean to you?

Sounds like you were involved with the tail end of Usenet but I wasn't referring to Usenet.

Incel didn't become what means today until sometime after 2000 when 4chan and Reddit arrived on the scene. That was the beginning of the end of the period I am talking about.