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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.

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  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.
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[–] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 32 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Right. Look, I want people moving to more independent services too, but I know that sometimes you have to meet people where they are. I keep Meta accounts because sometimes I need to see family pictures or engage with some random FB group.

You can work on getting people to try things and adapt without just going "Fuck you, you do it my way or not at all."

[–] bungusbread@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

"I only support a genocidal wannabe oligarch who actively uses his pet propaganda network to directly influence elections and policy across the globe in an effort to bring back feudalism because not doing so would be mildly inconvenient" isn't exactly the hot take you think it is tbh.

If you kept using Facebook services after Cambridge Analytica then you are part of the problem, period.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, if they were somehow forcing them all to move the group chat, sure. That might be a valid argument then.

But as it is, it seems they simply left the group chat, and said "if you want me in it, move it to signal."

That's not forcing anyone to do anything. That's setting a boundary. The people trying to pressure OOP into using software they don't trust are the only ones trying to force anything.

[–] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Isn't MK in this scenario doing the same thing? Trying to put pressure on their family to use a piece of software they don't know and aren't comfortable using?

I mean yeah, MK's take is more informed, but sides are likely to see it as the other side trying to get them to cave.

Anyway. Rereading, "Signal is better opsec" when your 92yo grandmother wants to plan Thanksgiving is cracking me up.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 hours ago

I think they're more saying they won't participate in an imessage group chat. Which would ordinarily be fine. It's only strange in this case because they're still using imessage.

Anyway. Rereading, "Signal is better opsec" when your 92yo grandmother wants to plan Thanksgiving is cracking me up.

If palantir knows who's bringing the stuffing, what else do they know about you and your family?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

No...

No.

I'm tired of being consistently correct and it taking other people a decade to figure that out.

Fuck you, you do it my way or not at all.

I'm an introvert, I'll be fine without you.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 hours ago

Also conceding ground just gives the powers of evil what they want. If more than one person in the group chat got insistent then that would be a lot more leverage. If the majority decide it was time to move the move has already happened and the ones who haven't moved are the ones who are being obnoxious and sticking to a different app

[–] Cyrus@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Yeah that's right, I am that bitch.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Tough, Lemmy, or kiss my ass.

No Reddit ever.

[–] Cyrus@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Username checks out