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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 a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
- Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
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Was it a good idea? Only time will tell
It was a good idea when it was super niche. And people were using MUDS and newsgroups.
As soon as marketing and capitalism figured out they could use it to control media content and sell it to the masses, we began down this road where we are now, with a few billionaire monopolies running everything.
It had two waves. The first was in the 90s and it was about access. Starting with dialup AOL, genie, prodigy and all those free CDs in the mail. Then the telecoms wanted in and that was that, for a while. Then in another ~10 years, since they couldn’t control access (as that was then universal) they had to control backend content, and now we have the billionaire monopolies in the services themselves, X, Facebook, etc.
It had a good run there for a while though.
It’s still a great idea.
Be mindful of anyone who wants to remove your ability to freely communicate with the world and seek out knowledge.
And you already had the billionaire monopolies before the Internet, they are the newspaper, radio, and tv station owners. Now you have common people in competition with them in the space of public discourse.
The Internet isn’t perfect, but it is the best we have to date and fuck anyone who wants to go back from it.
It was great when it was niche. It was an exploding universe of optimism, unique experiences, and content when the worst we had to deal with was annoying banner ads.
Well, it's good entertainment. But maybe it wasn't. Don't know what my life would look like without it.