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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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[–] dipcart@lemmy.world 28 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

So funny to be like AI can retrieve facts in .3 seconds. First of all, no it can't. Second of all, can't search engines do this? Haven't they been doing this for years? Like AI is slower, less accurate and more wasteful than duckduckgo. Shouldn't all her points have been true years ago?

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

they're sending kids to school to learn things that are already in books! and if they wanted to know them they could just learn them from a book! why even bother to learn from a book when they could learn it from a book?!

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Throw the book at 'em!

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 17 points 6 hours ago

forgive her, she's been outsourcing all mental activity for a while.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Duckduckgo uses Ai now too right? Better use startpage, it's AI free and privacy based under eu law.

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It has a kill switch for all AI features. It also has a toggle for AI generated images in image search

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 41 minutes ago* (last edited 40 minutes ago) (1 children)

I'm not fond of the results ddg gives me. Startpage results are more like Google used to be back in the days when it was a proper search engine. Like over 10 / 15 years ago.

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 1 points 30 minutes ago* (last edited 29 minutes ago) (1 children)

The results are definitely terrible, mostly due to the AI slop sites that have been popping up in the last 3 years. I'll give startpage a go, but I think we are already in dead internet theory territory. I've also heard good things about Kagi

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 17 minutes ago

I think we are already in dead internet theory territory.

Yup, I believe you're right with that one, and that there's no return now with the current progress of AI. The internet is broken and it doesn't look like the ones responsible for it have any intension of fixing that. They only will make everything much worse.