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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:
- 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.
- 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.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- 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.
- 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.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
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In many countries around the world it's the only way people communicate. If I want to keep in contact with my family (and I do), I have no choice but to use it.
I've tried to get them on Telegram or Signal, no luck.
If they won't convert to signal then oh well.
People got along fine before what's app. Just don't use it.
making me repeat myself... grumble...
If I want to keep in contact with my family (and I do), I have no choice but to use it.
You have a choice. You don't have to use it. People managed for thousands of years, you can too.
Have some principles. If they can't or won't change, don't make it your problem.
They will come around if and when you take it seriously. Or they won't, and then well, fuck em.
I have family around the world. Some said they can't change, that's on them. Others did and that's fine. But nobody is going to if you cave and enable them to just keep doing it.
I'm sorry that your relationship with your family is so unimportant to you that you think it's better to cut them off entirely from your life than to use something you dislike.
Its fine. In sorry you are so unimportant to your family that they don't care about anything but themselves.
In the end though, there are lots of ways to communicate, and making a stand for something causes change.
Being unable to change from a data harvesting societal ill is troubling.