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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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[โ€“] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Had to look it up (my county doesn't have them), and two things seem weird to me:

  1. Why is it text only? Wouldn't adding a picture of the abducted child make it much more effective?
  2. Since it can take several hours for the alert to be issued, it doesn't really require any immediate action from the people who receive it - it makes no sense to use a special emergency protocol to distribute it.
[โ€“] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I guess there's something to be said for everyone simultaneously getting an alert... if someone happens to be near the car they describe, get the alert and see the license plate, they'd call it in. So I guess there's circumstances where a hard alert where everyone has to simultaneously stop and look around could be beneficial. But yeah images could be useful, and most importantly something in your SMS history (which could have images) to refer back to seems like it would be way better.