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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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[–] Alberat@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

announcer: it seems that Russia has randomly selected their 3 time gold medal athlete again to compete! how lucky!

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No problem, we can just put all birth certificates, death certificates, and government-issued ID (front and back) on the blockchain to ensure randomness.

[–] klay1@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

How would that work? I mean the blockchain part, not the personal information of 8 billion people in the hands of few people part.

[–] Alberat@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

you base the random dice roll on the proof of work of the block chain. proofs of work generate randomness because (proof by contradiction) if they didn't it would be easy to find the next block and make a bunch of money.

EDIT: more concretely, in a blockchain, "miners" compute a "hash" of the chain up to the latest block, with an extra random "nonce". they then check if this hash has a certain distinguishing feature (eg 5 leading zeros). if it doesn't have this feature, the recompute the hash with a new nonce. the rest of the bits in the hash thus become random. thus, if you commit to using a future hash to determine your lottery, it can be guaranteed to be random (or prove you have enough money to manipulate the block chain which is very difficult)