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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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[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

NeXTSTEP worked exactly this way, and it was glorious. Its window manager simply had the concept of "no current focus." Programs could not steal focus, they could only gain focus either by explicit user action, or grabbing it when nothing else was focused. When you started an application, there would be no focus while it loaded. If you waited, the new application would grab focus. If you moved on to a different window, the new application would pop up in the background. New windows, dialog boxes, and notification-type events would put an indicator on the application's icon in the dock.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That does indeed sound glorious. I am afraid to look it up because you spoke of it in past tense :(

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's... still around, in a way. Apple bought NeXT Computer, and it provided the BSD Unix base for MacOS X, as well as all of those classes with the 'NS' prefix. Of course, Apple pasted on a totally new UI. 🙁

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Oh, so it was an OS, not a software package, and not open source :/ anyways, the characteristics you describe should(!) be easy enough to implement by any given window manager... Here's hoping...