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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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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I didn't claim that. I don't think you understand what people in this thread are saying.

Other companies can't advertise their products as "Kleenex", but that doesn't stop most people from calling all facial tissues Kleenex.

Most Canadians call them Timbits.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world -5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

In every place I've been to in Canada

Canada is already a place, what other “places” would you be referring to other than place (stores) like Tim Hortons, McDonalds, etc. in your comment?

Yes Canadians may incorrectly call them Tim Bits, but other places can’t since the trademark is owned by Tim Hortons. No need to lie that other places call it that when they can’t or they would get sued and easily lose dude….

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Oh my guy... Places like Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Toronto... Not stores, geographical locations.

[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As a non-canadian who has never heard the word timbits before, this is the funniest argument I have ever read on lemmy

[–] JayGray91@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A weird hill to die on too lol

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I see you're new here.

Lemmy trends very young and harder towards people on the spectrum, so I see a LOT of these kinds of takes where someone completely misunderstands something and then absolutely refuses to change their opinion.

[–] Apepollo11@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Maybe this is an Eng (UK) / Eng (US) issue.

You're arguing that "every place" must mean shops.

I absolutely didn't read it as that, I assumed they meant "other parts of Canada". I mean, Canada is a gigantic country with tons of regional accent, dialect, even language differences.

Might be best to chalk it up to a misunderstanding and move on.