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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:
- 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.
- 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.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- 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.
- Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
- Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
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I, for one, specifically go out of my way to not purchase things that have been advertised to me, but I also only see about one ad per year on average, because ads are a known malware vector and not blocking ads is just bad security hygiene. Not having to constantly be force-fed capitalism slop is just a nice side benefit.
But yeah, my particular 'tism mostly manifests as spite in this case, and from what I've heard tell from other Lemmings I'm in pretty good company in that regard with this group. We just need to figure out how to export that spite to the common man.
I too have autism, and I have this same response of spite towards advertizers.
I am reluctant to buy or use things that are advertized to me, ads lower my opinion of a product by a lot. I cringe at products/brands that advertize. A good product would not aggressively try to make me want it; doing so is a vile deed. It's abuse of people and should qualify as a human rights violation (we need way more recognized human rights).
I aggressively block ads, so I almost exclusively see yt sponsorships, and my response to those is "ew". "Ew a proprietary VPN" "Ew mobile game"