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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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wait what is reddit then?
Reddit is a link aggregator and forum. There's no hard line for how many characters is too many to be a microblog, but Reddit's 40,000 for a post and 10,000 for a comment is plainly disqualifying.
Edit: Oh, but Reddit is also a meme. Case closed; I retract my objection. /s
Reddit's character limit is to high to be a microblog?
I wasn't aware of that criteria.
Microblogs are differentiated from blogs almost entirely by the short length of their posts (we're normally talking hundreds of characters); that's why they're called "microblogs". Wikipedia accurately summarizes and properly sources:
I could've also invoked titles, but the length difference is so vast that there's no need.
Reddit categorically fails the micro part, but it even fails the blog part. The whole point of a blog is that you follow an individual account's writings, and – except for a new, tacked-on, superfluous, barely used feature where you can follow users – Reddit has you follow subforums.
Basically, I'd already be confused about how someone could categorize Reddit as a blog, but to think it's a microblog is to fundamentally not know what that is.
Edit: just to illustrate the absurdism, the average English word by usage is about 4.5 characters, implying about 8500 words. A single-spaced, 12-point page can fit about 3000 characters, and thus you're looking at roughly a 13-page, 8500-word essay.
.......................Reddit is not a blogging platform. Are you not aware a blog is like a public personal journal?
Define: meme
A meme is an idea or phrase that catches on in society and becomes commonplace. It's not a word invented with the Internet. Any "meme" that hasn't spread into a widely known idea or phrase is not actually a meme. A picture with words added to it does not automatically make it one.