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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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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 292 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Millennial here. The true answer is None Of The Above. The actual download button is just a blue link somewhere on the page, probably among all of the torrent info.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 117 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is the correct answer. It might also be the filename shown. If you can put your cursor over that it might become underlined. All big Download buttons are not to be trusted.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

It always irked me back in the day when cnet was still a useful source because they modeled their buttons that way. Then they eventually became the garbage the site appeared to be at first glance.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Came here to say this. Closest onscreen would probably be the grey "Download or Watch" button not trying to get your attention in any way.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, the yellow link above that is more likely due to that, the shape is also a bit unusual.
But that's why the link preview text exist.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

The real download button only shows up after 30 seconds.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 12 points 11 months ago

The file name looks like a link, it’s at least a slightly different color than the other text.

[–] moseschrute@piefed.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Gen Z here. I usually look for the magnet link to copy paste into my torrent client. I think that bypasses the download button problem.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I might be biased against that from the ages of dialup, where torrenting almost always ended up failing if you also seeded, but you felt guilty if you leeched.