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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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[–] miridius@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Personally as long as I'm not contributing to their wealth in some way I don't think it really matters what the CEO of the company that makes a product does. I'm mostly just going to use the best product for me. Now there is an argument that simply by using it I'm contributing to their usage numbers which helps them, and that's definitely true for social media platforms because of the network effect (which is why I stay off of the corporate ones), but it's less true of other products. In fact if i use an ad-supported product but block the ads I'm likely costing them more than I am a benefit.

It's also a spectrum rather than black and white: every medium or larger tech company, especially if american due to the deregulated and in many cases openly corrupt capitalism, is going to do evil things for profit and be both run and owned by evil people/corporations. But their level of danger to global society varies. Musk is extremely dangerous because of his active campaign to bring fascism and nationalism to power in Europe, which is why x.com is blocked in my house at a DNS level. Other billionaires are dangerous too but they're not all equal.

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[–] BigTurkeyLove@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Alright yall, what browsers you using then?

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[–] ktowner15@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm hoping something happens with Ladybird eventually, but who knows ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] MuckyWaffles@leminal.space 3 points 1 month ago

I will say the Ladybird leader Andreas Kling doesn't have the best politics either, but it's definitely preferable to Brave. I'm excited for Servo as well, since it's finally been revived after getting dumped by Mozilla. It seems more technically interesting me too, beyond just being "another browser". For the next year or two Zen Browser is going to remain my go-to, though.

[–] testfactor@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (15 children)

I'd be happy to switch away the moment someone recommends me a better chromium based option.

Firefox just doesn't work for my use case. I know it's pithy, but their dev tools suck, and the history menu is dogshit. And since my main use case is pulling up recently used pages, that's a huge impediment for me.

I'd switch to vanilla Chromium, but it's (reasonably because of what it is) super feature poor. Not having a good way to device sync on Linux basically makes it a non-starter for me.

So what's my alternative? What browser should I use? It's a genuine question, as I've tried several, and Brave is the only one that's remotely usable for my use case.

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have you tried Helium Browser?

I haven't used it myself as I use Firefox, but it looks promising. If I had to use Chrome on my device I'd try this one. It is still in beta technically, though

[–] testfactor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Looks pretty good. I may give it a shot.

Being in beta worries me, and I'll have to investigate if it has cross browser sync, though I assume it does through Google accounts or something.

Doesn't hurt to give it a spin though. Thanks for the rec.

It looks like the first pipelined release was in August, so I'm not surprised I hadn't heard of it, lol.

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