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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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[–] SimonJ@reddthat.com 24 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Install an adblocker and take the guesswork away, but likely the orange one at the bottom.

[–] irish_link@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s actually the one below that. It says “Download or watch”

[–] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"or watch" part is still pretty sus

[–] irish_link@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

True, but I take it as lazy programming. If it’s a file then download if it’s a video depending on your browser and any extensions/plugins it would essentially stream it instead of download. But true it’s still sus.

I'd say the same if I had to pick, although they all look pretty shady lol

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

An adblock doesn't necessarily help here. Those work by blocking pictures from being loaded from domains that usually serve ads. Here, they're likely hosting the download link images on their own server, but they'll send you someplace you don't want to go.