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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.
  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.
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i deadass quit all other social media

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[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 115 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 18 points 3 weeks ago

Bureaucrat level up!

[–] vpol@feddit.uk 110 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It’s because the other internet is ruled by tyrants and pedophiles.

[–] Virtvirt588@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

Most probably nepophiles as well. Or just basically sex offenders of all categories.

[–] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 79 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But I’m here, and I’m not neurodiver…ah beans

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 11 points 3 weeks ago

GROND

GROND

GROND

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 59 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Tilgare@lemmy.world 57 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Neurodivergent, certainly. But I also have a sneaking suspicion that a large majority of us are millenials. We've gone through this repeatedly in the internet age, changing chat or social platforms. We're the early adopters and eventually everybody on earth comes to crush it to death and then we rebuild somewhere else.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 23 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

And for us Gen-X/Gen-Y folks, all the Fediverse needed to do was to say "it'll be just like the Internet in the 1990s" and we were like "HELL YEAH SIGN ME UP"

Gives me BBS era / Usenet vibes, yesss

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[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 52 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I much prefer this, our own internet, but without the "blackjack and hookers".

(I'd like to think that OUR Sex Workers are ethically sourced owners of their own means of production rather than trafficked and/or exploited by pimps or other parasitic human vermin... but one must remain vigilant.)

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

unionised sex workers

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

I expect they mean users on lemmynsfw.com or whatever it is.

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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 44 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Well to be fair, there's not just neurodivergent people in the Fediverse.

There's also a bunch of queer people. And furries.

Also neurodivergent queer people, neurodivergent furries, queer furries, and neurodivergent queer furries. Duh.

[–] nerfherder@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago

I see nothing wrong about this. Carry on.

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The normies are self destructive.

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[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 29 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

no ad revenue, no fake internet points, we just post for the love of the game

[–] SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago

Well said! Here, have an upvote!

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[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago

The Fediverse really seems like the late 90's/early 00's internet, before the influx of corporate silo media. So far folks here are more or less ok, and the lack of deliberate ragebait pushing is refreshing.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Which internet should I be on? The one that's ran by friends of a pedo? Or the one ran by a pedo's company? Or the one with an actual, 100% for real, CSAM-generator built into it that was too weird to get to be as much of a pedo as he wanted to be?

Let's get some more posts about spoon design, OK? I like the validation.

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[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 24 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

It's just a return to where internet access was a filter, and you didn't have Boomers on MySpace and phpBB

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[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

I find I have no evidence to rebut this claim.

[–] usernameusername@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

the fediverse is the internet in its most internet state

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[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

also, there's no karma system and no karma farming

and we can say unpopular things without worrying about downvotes

uh

eating pizza with a fork and knife is kinda enjoyable

you get to taste more pizza per pizza, and you take your time to savor it

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[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 17 points 3 weeks ago

While the rest of social media is where neurotypical people go to talk with bots?

[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 16 points 3 weeks ago
[–] rotkehlchen@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 weeks ago

This should be the motto of the fediverse.

[–] TehBamski@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago
[–] 5too@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Isn't that why/how the Internet was created?

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[–] RedFrank24@piefed.social 14 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

It's a very specific subset of neurodivergents, tbh. I don't see much discussion around typically geeky topics. On Reddit, if I had a fleeting thought or question about a fictional world, I had /r/asksciencefiction. On the fediverse? No such board. The answer to that is "Oh just create it", but I don't have the time or the attention span to moderate such a place.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Create the spaces you want to see, it is very low effort, then put up a post asking for others to help so they can get to it when you are not there. We rarely get problems other than spam here and there, but the small ones are extremely quiet. No one is spamming !orchidaceae@mander.xyz lmao. If you have a team, you can pass it off if you get burnt out and replaced. Do not be afraid! We need a diverse array of mods, do not let us get like Reddit where too many are controlled by a handful of folks. I fully plan on releasing many of mine to a team of more qualified folks when the time comes. :)

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

TBH this disappeared on Reddit too. All my preferred fandom subs are now cesspools, with zero depth in fandom knowledge yet weird, cultish worshipping of the material. Bigger general subs feel like bot farms.

Piefed's /c/television is 1000x better.

But the best places on the internet for that are probably the TVTropes forums, SpaceBattles, and other "surviving" fiction boards.

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[–] Una@europe.pub 13 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Nah, I ain't neurodivergent everything else is true.

[–] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 9 points 3 weeks ago

You might say that now, but each time you post on here your neuro diverges a little.

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[–] Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No fediverse is the internet. Meta, X etc. are not.

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Aberration13@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

was this not the intended use?

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's the killer app for the fediverse. Because non of y'all have the attention span to become a long-term influencer turned into a grifter. And I love it.

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 8 points 3 weeks ago

Not really. It’s simply more authentic than Reddit. And, no ads.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That's the Internet in general to begin with.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

...until the "money people" started getting involved.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 7 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Yup, and yup.

Golden age: "Let's share ideas freely and argue over semantics"
Silver age: "Let's share everything freely and jerk off to it, ignoring the ads"
Bronze age: "Let's share nothing, stream everything, visit 5 websites, and buy buy buy."

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