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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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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

It's not fair in either sense imo. Agree with your last paragraph - we are setting back fight for equality with these dumb meme rage bait statements. This is not the way no matter how you look at this issue. It's just rage bait.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The last sentence is the most irritating.

What am I supposed to take note of? There is nothing useful being discussed here. Both sides are taking a broad brush approach which is totally useless in the real world. Yet the woman here thinks they've come up with something profound.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Threads is basically 80% rage bait and 20% boner bait. Unsurprisingly coming from facebook - yet another societal cancer.

[–] wampus@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

To some extent I'd agree -- but I also think some topics are such that any attempt to condense them into a pithy online statement, won't be able to present them with sufficient nuance for people to understand it beyond the rage bait. S'why I try to both support the general sentiment, but also offer a bit more potential context based on my understanding of it, for what it's worth at least. I'm ok with you disagreeing with my stance of it being ok to be a bit prejudice / defensive based on aggregate threats -- most times, I've noticed that where people stand on that seems to boil down at least in part to their subjective experiences, and you can't really argue against that.

The broader issue of the rage-bait era, I think, is the wide-scale reduction in longer-format media. People don't tend to read books, let alone comments longer than 1 - 2 sentences in length. Even when they do read a longer comment, they'll often just cherry pick specific threads/nuggets to respond to, often taking them out of context, to try and engage -- so even in engaging with content, their mindsets are still driven based on the short-form media nuggets they've been raised on.