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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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I do often like to think the world would be on a better trajectory if we did the internet and social media differently to jow and actually have done it. Tech is so dystopian nowadays. (And hey, I suppose that's why we're all here)
There are other bad things that happened independently of the internet - certain wars and crises - but how people respond to these things and how they treat & see one another would be fundamentally different. It's hard not to look back at the 90s and pre-2010 as utopian. (Maybe that's just a zoomer thing.)
As a slightly tired example: I
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don't think Donald Trump would've won his 2016 election if the state of internet and social media had remained frozen in a 90s or 2005 status. It was the braying of voices online that "managed" that crisis away for him. And, compared against the way many people talk to one another online, things like "grab her by the pussy" didn't shock people that much. In a world where you find out about that moment from cable news it has a lot more weight I think. For all people.