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Microblog Memes

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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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[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I still remember the original Metaverse pitch basically being 'We're going to copy VRChat but without any of the bits people enjoy'

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Having only seen videos of VR Chat, your avatar can be a 6 foot penis or a anime girl or a skeleton with a trumpet. And I think Metaverse was trying to provide that for businesses and the general public?

How can you create a social hub where you can't be a 6 foot penis?

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The original concept was more or less a virtual shopping mall with a character creator. Imagine VR chat but made by EA.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

There will be a $12.99 monthly fee for imaging that

[–] tmyakal 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I don't know how to tell you but Worlds Away was 20 years old... a decade ago.

!Released September 1995!<

[–] REDACTED 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

Like it should be, as Neil Stephenson depicted it in Snowcrash, 1992...

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

And, in practice, take forever, don’t really promote it, and make it look like no one at Facebook has ever laid eyes on a video game.