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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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[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plus, I'm a programmer and type <>, (), {}, and [] enough that I have them bound to non-shift keys. So even if we were counting keystrokes, it'd still be fewer than three on my keyboard.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You also have to include how many mouse clicks/keys you used yo bind them to non-shift keys

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What, are you saying we're counting one-time configuration costs? If so, the hundred or so configuration clicks are still utterly dwarfed by the tens of thousands of saved keystrokes. Statistical noise.

Anyway, I ruined the joke by correcting the grammar. "Less than 3" is "<3", whether it took a hundred keystrokes to type or not. "Fewer than three" breaks the joke.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All previous clicks should be counted, including installing linux, opening firefox/a firefox fork and arguing with strangers only about how many clicks are needed to type "<3"

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good point, but I think it doesn't go far enough. I think we need to include all of the key clicks and mouse movements needed to develop the Linux kernel and GNU tools, plus everything that went into designing and delivering the keyboard to you.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dont forget about the invention and evolution of the computer

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How many clicks do you think were needed to cause the Big Bang?

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like the clicks before the Big Bang shouldnt count. That would make it too long of a timespan

Clicks in parallel dimensions should count though