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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 a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's deliberately slow to load

That kinda defeats the goal of feeding AI as much garbage as possible. They will just fetch a page from a different site in that time, instead of spending cycles on this page. It's not like the crawler works strictly serially.

[–] gressen@lemmy.zip 38 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The idea is to protect own server from unnecessary loads. You're welcome to provide a faster AI tar pit, just mind that ultimately this is a waste of resources.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm guessing that Markov chains are pretty efficient computationally compared to AI training. Don't have a site currently, but I'd love to see a bot rip through hundreds of pages a minute.