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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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[–] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bike shedders? Bike shedding had an explanation wikipedia, if that's the phrase you meant to pull from. It's a new term for a concept I'm familiar with. I like it.

I've never been near VC companies, so I can only imagine how much of it happens there compared to elsewhere.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I bastardized the term pretty badly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

It's like a weird idea factory where 26 year olds who still don't understand how the world turns go down rabbit holes to hone thoughts to weird points, and then gatekeep the whole thing. It was good money and I learned some stuff, but holy shit I wouldn't go back.

Because they're getting good money, they believe they're doing it all for themselves and improving the world.

Sweet summer children.

[–] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't think you bastardized it. It's becoming standard 'english' to manipulate participles and verbs into nouns by adding the 'er,' which makes me exceptionally grumpy in some crosswords. I just couldn't find anything that said 'bike shedder' specifically so I wanted to make sure.