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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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[–] baines@piefed.social 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

survivorship bias speed run incoming

stop worrying about where advice comes from and just actually think about shit

[–] brrt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

That’s the first thing I thought when I read this post and I don’t understand why you are not upvoted more.

OP wants me to take advice from the person who won the lottery and disregard all the others who sunk stupid amounts of money and got nothing to show for it? I’d rather hear them all and make an informed decision.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I advise the opposite actually, seriously consider the source of the advice. I've seen people in relationships that I wouldn't want to be in give relationship advice and I made a point to consider such advice as part of how you wind up in a relationship like that. Meanwhile I have people I respect and when they have advice on issues relating to why I respect them I take it seriously even if it's something I would brush off from most people.

Now obviously think about all advice, but framing and weighing it off the advice giver is valuable. The positive financial advice (do this with your money) of a broke person is worth a lot less than the negative financial advice (don't blow your money like I did on this) that they may have

[–] baines@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

you misunderstand, that’s the thinking part

put advice into context sure

but people just love to dismiss thoughts (including advice) because of their source

hell some of the best advice is in spite of their source and the opposite of their intent