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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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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ahh yes, the old "things are bad so we shouldn't worry about making them any better" argument.

[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That's not what I wrote. It's just that they were complaining about the wrong thing. Algorithms are not bad, just how they are sometimes used is bad. Most of the time they are applied in a good or neutral way.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Well I didn't write anything about phones, I was talking about social media echo-chambers, but you took that there.

[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Okay then let's get rid of the phone, it was just an example either way. Every program consists of algorithms, no matter where it is installed: in your phone, car or TV. In a street light, a digital thermometer or a smoke detector.

You wrote:

get rid of anything that's an algorithm.

If we do that, no digital thing will work anymore. It's not just social media. Or phones. It's everything.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

get rid of anything that’s an algorithm.

you get my point, yet you refuse to get my point, we have nothing left here to discuss