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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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there are many great reasons to use Signal (feddit.org)
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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 31 points 1 year ago

Imagine using a hammer to remove a screw from a beam.

It's possible, but it's not the right tool. It's frankly dangerous, and probably going to damage something.

But, a hammer, when used on nails, is really good at what it does.

Signal encrypts your message, sends it to the recipient, and the recipient's Signal decrypts the message when they view it.

It is open source, so we can verify it does that ourselves. What that means is that a reader who is not the receiver of the message cannot read it.

That does NOT MEAN:

  1. The receiver is who you intended it to be.
  2. The receiver is uncompromised.

Signal also DOES NOT:

  1. Have control lists to your group discussions.
  2. Verify the receiver is who they say they are

The benefit is:

  1. We know that the message sent is encrypted.
  2. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, etc, can't route your message through their servers en route to your recipient. Or well, they can at a low level, but it would just be a garbled mess anyway.