this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2026
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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:
- 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.
- 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.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- 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.
- 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.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
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That's all fine and dandy until your block list is a mile long and you only get a handful of posts a day anymore because that's what you're left with when you filter out the furries, anime porn, ragebait, OMG LINUX, thigh high socks, etc. The OP is right, Lemmy has just as much of a content problem as any other place and the blame is largely on the users.
At least on Reddit, despite its massive flaws, I get actual discussion that's more than a sentence or two of "I agree bad guy is bad!" The amount of low effort engagement in here is atrocious.
And that's bad why exactly?
Well, I try to come here to keep up to date with what's going on with the world and my experience is generally this is the second or third place that news "breaks". By the time it hits Lemmy, it's basically outdated.
So seeing a handful of posts that are out of date with barely any actual discussion going on is pretty useless. I find myself checking Lemmy once or twice a day, seeing there's nothing worth being here for, and leaving. That's not how you grow a community.