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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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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yep, I agree it's pretty annoying. What's ironic though is that in the spirit of shortening everything (like many Americans seem to do), "texted" would've been shorter (and in this instance there's nothing particular about which app they used to do that).

[–] responsible_sith@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It might be to highlight that he used WhatsApp, which is popular in Europe but not America.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Sure, but it still doesn't change the story. It's a piece of text, it gets from one person to the other over a mobile network or over the Internet.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk -1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Whatsapp doesn't use the SMS protocol though so if you send a WhatsApp message it doesn't appear as a text message it appears in the WhatsApp app, you have to have the app installed so it is a significant distinction to make.

When I'm dealing with clients I'm mostly told to send them a WhatsApp message but occasionally they will tell me to send a text message and that means that they don't have WhatsApp and I actually have to use the SMS system. They just say WhatsApp or text and know that I'll be able to work it out.

[–] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Yes but for us reading the story it’s irrelevant if he received a WhatsApp, signal or SMS message

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I know how it works. Texting sometimes means SMS specifically, but other times it might mean messaging over any non-SMS app/protocol.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

And that message is received in a text form, hell, use "messaged me" if you prefer, I don't care