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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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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I was following it just fine until the "experience the information superhighway" part.

My mate's ZX Spectrums had no "information superhighway" connection.

[–] how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My mate's ZX Spectrums had no "information superhighway" connection.

Used a 086 Amstrad to connect to BBS's

That was the proto-internet that I miss even now.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

BBS were cute. However the costs and connection speeds were pretty brutal.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago

Best we could manage was failing to get anywhere in a Dizzy game.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Information back alley trickle