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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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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 36 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (17 children)

Ads?

What ads?

I mean, who TF is not running with a proper adblocker and multiple other anti-spyware and anti-malware add-ins in their browser?

I’ve been doing so since 2004, when the first adblocker came out for Firefox. Except for system set-ups of client machines and working on the machines of new clients, I haven’t seen an ad in over 20 years.

Of course, you actually need to be running Firefox to have anything approaching an effective in-browser adblocker… Chrome has massively neutered adblockers into near uselessness.

Seriously, people:

And for those on mobile:

[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Now granted, most of these will need additional configuration once installed to be effective. Downside is that you need good security knowledge to configure some of these settings. Most can be rather obvious, but some can trip up those without deep knowledge.

For example, Referer Control is particularly subtle, as its only mod requires you to set the referrer to be [REFERER_HOST], and (if it is disabled) to have JS referrer handling active as well.

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