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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 a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 26 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

I just write hi or good morning or whatever, follow it by an empty line, and then my question. In the same message.

[–] Tilgare@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

This probably isn't an audience that needs to hear this - but you can add a line break with ALT+Enter in Teams.

Getting a flood of short messages instead of 2 paragraphs drives me crazy.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 10 points 8 hours ago

I always put "Hi" and the topic in the first line so they have a chance to estimate what it's about from the little preview blurb and decide whether to pivot their headspace that way now, later or not at all

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

I'm the opposite ... I put my request in first and then do my pleasantries:

"could you look into this for me?"

"btw good morning"