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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 a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Eh. I've been playing an $80 no name bass for five years. No one has any idea, because it sounds fine.

You don't need to go all out. Ability is more important than name brand.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It must have some decent machine heads to hold tune. Did you buy it used?

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's pretty great actually. It rarely goes off tune. Takes about 20 seconds with a snark.

It was brand new, off Amazon of all places. I did have to buy a new strap though, the one that came with it broke immediately.

To be honest it does have a "trumpet" sound that I'm not fond of.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I've got everything from an American G&L to a shitty $80 acoustic bass off Amazon. My favorite that I purchased instead of built is currently a mid level Alvarez, followed very closely by a butterscotch Squier 51 that I've had since they first came out (for under $100).

The biggest problem with low end guitars and bass guitars these days is mostly QC. Sharp frets, super high action, and bad tuners are fixable as long as your neck isn't complete garbage. The problem comes in when new folks really have no idea what it should feel like and they don't want to take it down and pay half the cost of the instrument to have a good setup done. So they suffer and quit when they could have spent $45 and turned a garbage $80 no name special into a reasonable beginner instrument.

To be fair, QC has also become a problem with much more expensive guitars as well in some cases (looking at you, Gibson).