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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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[–] YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Can we not turn Lemmy into an insufferably smug r/childfree, full of teens/20 somethings hating on sprogs?

I didn't have kids until my late 30s, never had pressure from anyone to have them and certainly didn't get upset on the super-rare occasions that folk asked if I was thinking of having them.

Live your life, make your own call on your life decisions and don't allow yourself to be pressured by anyone. Having children should be your decision and yours alone, and ultimately it's noone else's business.

But to hate on kids is not healthy, and should never be normalised.

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago

This is less childfree and more "every woman wants to be a mother of course!!!"

Like want to get your tubes tied? Nope we're not gonna do that because then you can't be a mother!!!

I'm purposefully exaggerating so you get the vibe, but this is a real problem facing women

[–] jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't want to hear people who are happily childfree? Then don't read the comments on a post from someone defending their decision to not have children.

[–] YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

When did I say that? Of course people can be happily child free. It's just a shit analogy. Perhaps I should have ignored it. Lesson learned.

[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

In the amount of time you spent to write that comment you could have blocked this community 10 times over lol. Not every space should be catered to a specific person.

[–] YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Honestly wasn't aware I was posting on a childfree community - I access Lemmy through Boost, so just interact with whatever comes up in my feed. It does explain the heat I'm getting though 😂

[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

There is zero indication anywhere this is a childfree community aside from the bitching in this thread.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's rather poorly named for a dedicated childfree community.

[–] jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah. After a single post defending the child-free lifestyle, the community should change its name to reflect it.... /s

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

So close to seeing the point.

[–] edgesmash@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm a relative Lemmy newbie and have a newbie question, hope you don't mind. I access Lemmy primarily through the Sync app on Android. This community is https://lemmy.world/c/microblogmemes, yes? I checked the "about community" information about it and didn't see any mention of childfree. Is that more of an emergent aspect of the community?

I'm just an old fart trying to stay relevant and up-to-date as I can. Thank you in advance for your answer.

[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Communities usually have guidelines people follow but it's up to the mods to enforce them. If they don't think a certain meme is bad or worth removing then they'll just let it exist even if it's not specified in the community. With that in mind, the other guy could have just ignored the community or the user instead of complaining.

[–] YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

So by that rationale you basically shouldn't comment on a meme you think doesn't really work or you have an opinion on? If that's the case so be it, but it seems mildly oppressive and totally boring.

[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yes that's exactly what I meant by my original response to the other guy. You've captured my intent completely, bravo.

[–] jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

It's just this one post.

A lot of people are commenting on this post, but it's not a trend or anything

[–] jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

Or even just moved past this one post....