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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 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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[–] manxu@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

You are absolutely right in the overarching logic, but I believe we have interacted with the current iteration of AI long enough to know that consumer demand is underwhelming, and ROI for enterprise investment is near zero.

In your Olympics analogy, it would be like every four years a city spending tons of money on Olympic games that attract a lot fewer visitors than predicted, just because the other cities did in the past.

Honestly, I am reminded of the early days of the Internet, when all VCs were funding "generic sales startup" because they had said No to Bezos and Amazon had exploded. It wasn't about making a good investment, it was about being able to say they hadn't slept on the biggest opportunity they in fact missed.