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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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[–] zanyllama52@infosec.pub 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why is there self-censorship on the word "rape"?

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Entirely warranted fear of overbearing content moderation on corporate social media.

[–] zanyllama52@infosec.pub 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I guess that's one of the reasons I don't use corpo social media, goddamn. Use the words you need to, for fucks sake.

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 8 points 9 months ago

Sadly it’s a great way to get your post hidden or deleted. I hate it too.

[–] spectre@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I've never seen any evidence that it's actually warranted and not just a superstitious offering to the algorithm

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Capital is taking away our ability to speak to power about societal problems.

It's not a silly little thing, it's a real problem that we need to address. Nearly a quarter of the US adult population is functionally illiterate. They are taking our power to communicate away slowly, little bits at a time. They start with the big, heavy topics that make people upset, the topics that might make people rally together and push back against the system. Rape? Murder? Nazis? Suicide? No no no, those aren't acceptable so we don't say that. Monkey see no evil, say no evil, hear no evil. Be quiet and buy your new phone and buy your celebrity energy drinks.

Tune in tomorrow to see what the next banned ideas are.

Grab your rake and shovel and work those fields, serf.