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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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[–] BigBrownDog@lemmy.world 56 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

There's a lot of things lately that I realized that I don't really care for now that they are expensive anyway. I haven't paid for XBox Game Pass since it went up. I'm not missing it. I haven't had Neflix or Spotify in 2 years. I don't miss it. Losing Amazon Prime saved me a ton of cash and made me realize I was buying crap I didn't need. I haven't had McDonald's, Chipotle, or Jimmy John's in a long time. Don't miss it.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I haven’t had Neflix or Spotify

For the last few years I ask for a 1 yr gift card for Spotify premium, costs like $99 so it balances not terrible for the year.

But especially since I have an AdGuard home DNS, I'm loving tubi. Haven't seen an ad and the selection isn't bad.

[–] BigBrownDog@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

I'll check it out. Unfortunately I have comcast and I'm forced to use their modem/router. Could I still set up an AdGuard DNS with it?

I had my own modem and router, but it mysteriously stopped working and comcast can't figure out why. Happened with 2 modems, but theirs works fine.

[–] couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 hours ago

You can set up a pfsense router behind your other router and install stuff on pfsense, including adblockers, dns, etc.

Basically you'll go into your Comcast router, set up a static IP to be in the DMZ, and have that IP designated to the MAC address of your pfsense box.

There may be more to it as I haven't messed with my routers in quite a while. I'm sure someone will correct me 😂

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

When I was in a similar situation, I accepted the vendor managed router / modem, then just setup my network as a client. The vendor solution sat there and advertised to itself while my subnet respected my DNS solutions.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I'd never use an IP provided router so I can't say specifics. I'd hope you'd at least be able to config your own wifi settings like SSIDs, network passwords and such. If you're able to set the primary DNS then you're golden.

As for the device, it's stupid easy but requires buying a raspberry pi. Tons of vids on YouTube how to set it up; it's just downloading the OS and adguard to a micro sd card, set a password and do basic configs. I think NetworkChuck did a good video on it but there are others that legit take yours step by step.

The only downside is if you use phone apps/games that are tied to ads. It will block those ads, which some apps would then fail to register the ad's completion so you won't get the "reward".