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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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What’s with people and corporate owned social media platforms?
Were furries the “sheeple” all along? 🧐
It's the barrier to entry.
Spinning up your own social media platform is pretty easy in the grand scheme of things, but populating that platform is challenging. Doubly so if you want the platform to have topics beyond how good Linux is.
Furries have managed to carve out their own spaces on basically every platform and develped a subculture all on the outskirts of mainstream social media
We're getting there, slowly.
I was there, Gandalf. Two years and three months ago when !selfhosted was the largest Lemmy community.
We can talk about the news here too now!
Yep. Sometimes we talk about stuff happening outside the US even.
Brand recognition, I think.
I'm thinking we shouldn't market the fediverse as a concept, but rather individual instances which are good and meet a particular audience's needs and then tack on "you van still talk to people on other sites" later on in the pitch
Honestly not a bad idea.
It’s just so sad to me that something as simple as picking an instance is so difficult and scary to people that it’s a roadblock at all.