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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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[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Stop using Google as a verb. "Search" company name.

  • If you stay in/get into the habit of searching for products using google, inflation will just keep happening and amazon will give them a kickback. (Google charge for the higher search results).
  • They save and use your data, you are effectively an unpaid employee of google (it is how google 'work' - they also are the reason you are often paying more. The best way to do it is
  1. Find a cool product (if it happens to be on amazon, so be it).
  2. Search the name of that company on Duckduckgo, or qwant or many other non data collecting engines that don't have a kickback agreement with seller, or just a lower rate.
  3. 10% (or any) code is the reason they are selling product higher. Some people buy at the higher price (presumably most) so why would they care if people find the 10% discount code (advertisement on search engines) to get the product for the normal price?
  4. Company avoids paying both amazon and google, - it's not really "losing a 25% margin" unless you believe that they don't pass the fees on to the customer (YOU).
  5. You avoid giving money to all the c**ts but more importantly, you pay the proper item value, or you help competition grow.

The old way (2007ish - 2026) is the shit way.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Genericize the word google so their trademark becomes useless. Google everything on duckduckgo

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

not going to work sadly