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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:
- 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.
- 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.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- 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.
- 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.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
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That's the thing, right? What's "a lot of data" at these scales? Since they keep all these messages indefinitely (and users keep up to two copies of each, too) that's 100 gigs of data per byte that they save per day. 40 Terabytes per year. Plus 40 more among their collective users and another 40 presumably stashed in some Google Drive somewhere.
It's a lot for me, and it'll cost you what? A couple grand to store at home? That's a drop in the ocean of a company like Meta with petabytes upon petabytes of garbage stored all over the place... but then again, if I was making a thing and I could shave 40TB a year of storage I... probably would?
I don't know, the scope of modern, monopolistic online services is mind-boggling. I'm in the space where I'm savvy enough to understand how massive this nonsense is but also not working on it directly enough to be desensitized about the numbers. It's like trying to figure out how many people live on the planet, your brain can parse that it can't parse what you're trying to do and the dissonance makes you all wobbly.