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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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[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

can't decide yay or nay for Mozilla but

Valve and CloudFlare.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cloudflare provides valuable services this day on age but they’re building into a dangerous monolith of internet structure. Not sure how comfortable I am with that

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

CloudFlare's dns seems like a better choice than Google's (from a mullvad dns user)

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m a Quad9 guy myself but DNS is one of the things that isn't really being monopolized.

More worrying that they’re becoming a reverse proxy for literally everyone via their DDoS protection/anti-intusion services.

Which are quite good, let’s be honest, but that afford them the ability to monitor and censor, and if they have a failure they take down a large portion of the internet with them.

They could also start fucking with net neutrality, picking winners and losers as far as what services function in a viable way. Just because they haven’t doesn’t mean it isn’t uncomfortable that they’re in a position to.

google dns is the default, your isp likely uses google dns upstream.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Definitely valve. Say what you will about the man, or don't, I'm not your manager, but he has kept the same formula to steam since it was created. While other empires crumble and fall to enshittification, valve simply is.

We need Gabe to stick around as long as possible. If he wants to buy yachts and gamble with the money he has, let him. He didn't get to where he is by chasing every last dime and dollar, he got there gradually by running the company in such a way that it served the user base. As long as Valve's Software continues to focus on the user, we should leave this one alone.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gabe has like 7 yachts doesn't he?

[–] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's filthy rich and makes some of his money with gambling addiction. But his company invests million into Linux and I really enjoy Valve's products. There are thousands of worse CEOs and companies.

[–] Aermis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's also the original ceo of valve. Didn't sell it out and have corporate ceos just casually going in and out.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And by all accounts, runs a great company to work for. Tons of freedom to experiment. Small staff. Great pay and benefits.

[–] Aermis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yup. I'm an electrician in Seattle. We've built his offices and got to interact with his staff. I remember him mentioning to our GC the idea of having his offices open 24/7 to his staff with amenities was because the guy who came up with the idea is steam liked to work at night.

[–] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago

It has to be one of the most profitable companies on the planet. So much revenue with so little staff

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gaben is number 107 on the Forbes top 400 billionaires list.

Dude is fucking stacked