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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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[–] EABOD25@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So then when you buy a product, you're not allowed to expect product service? And open cloud shouldn't be allowed to be expect when you purchase a product? What's the issue with cloud sourcing being involved in product purchase? When you buy a new computer, you're also paying for an OS. What's the problem in expecting a full use of their services when you purchase a PC?

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

The fact that all of those services have costs - so what you're effectively saying is that the companies should pay for these things for you whenever you demand it

If they promised you X service for a certain period of time when they purchased something, then you have a right to that service for that period of time. But if they didn't do that, it just happens that the same company sells that service as a separate product to what you bought, then of course you don't have a right to it.

[–] EABOD25@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's talk about Microsoft specifically. They have the most notable OS in world, a gaming console, word, doc, and they have stock in Google. You telling me they can't afford free cloud storage?

[–] xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, I too could afford to pay for your OneDrive subscription, but I'm not going to because - frankly - I don't care about your cloud storage needs.

The fact they're technically capable of providing you something for free has nothing to do with whether they are legally or morally obligated to do so.

You're not the centre of the universe, sorry.

[–] EABOD25@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not free. They're also completely capable of including it in a package or bundle. I don't understand what's difficult about that way of thinking. You buy a computer which has the operating system so you're paying for the hardware and software. So why not provide cloud storage included in that? Why am I the asshole with that way of thinking?

[–] xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

They don't do that, because as a service, it continues to cost them money to provide it as time goes on.

That's not their business model, and acting like it's equivalent to ransomware for them to not use the business model you're demanding they switch to is absurd.

If you want to keep your cloud services, pay the subscription cost, it's that simple.