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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:
- 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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Like half of the software stack for the server you're writing this on is developed via a mailing list.
As I've said, nobody expects quote-after replies. It's just the default behavior that people pay no attention to. If you disable quotes-after, most email users would not care, since all modern email clients show full email threads anyways.
You're not grasping the actual conversation here. You're just arguing about semantics that don't actually matter, and in the process completely missing the point.
The interface isn't designed for you. It's designed for the way 99% of people are familiar with interacting and replying to things.
It's pretty clear that most people are also familiar with quote-before too. It is how quotes usually work, from textbooks, to forums, to all social media except twitter derivatives. We're on one such social media right now.
Even on twitter and derivatives, when viewing a reply chain, messages are ordered top-to-bottom, it's only the quotation that's the odd one out.