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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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[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Because Mastodon needs a reliable instance with a catchy domain name. Maybe even the slightest bit of advertising.

Someone reputable could make a real Twitter competitor for about $2m a year these days.

I'd say Mozilla, but they just took all their social media funding away and threw it at AI. Genius.

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

mastodon.world? mastodon.social?

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

Which don't exactly have the name recognition of The New York Times.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would you worry Google would have too much influence?

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I would worry that Google will simply discontinue the product abruptly. Google is unreliable with product longevity.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's rather see NYTimes get into it. Even if they time allow outside signups on their instance.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd say Mozilla, but they just took all their social media funding away and threw it at AI.

Nobody was using their instance from what I heard. So a bit of a wasted effort.

What sort of money are they throwing at AI? I only know about the sidebar and that's basically just a tab to a website of your choosing. Couldn't have been expensive.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

They never allowed people to use it. There was a wait-list. It never opened afaik outside of Mozilla people.

Mozilla is all in on ads actually