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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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Gargling corporate nutsack every time they release a new smartphone and rushing to install the latest spyware in your home doesn't make you a techie.
They never said that is what techies do.
Techies self host a Kubernetes cluster on their server rack at home. They set up completely isolated IoT devices with no access to the internet. They host their own Lemmy instance. Setup their own pirated Netflix using Jellyfin.
Someone who retreats to the forest because they are too scared of technology are most definitely not techies.
I do my own tech stuff so do some of my friends but it's a very niche thing compared to the majority of people who describe themselves as "techies". Many more are the types I described.
Being able to host my own shit is the reason I haven't abandoned it altogether and I'm still on the verge of giving it all up and living in the woods. Things in tech are not improving for us.
I know a game developer who works for Roblox who sends me Twitter links all the time and uses copilot. Blows my mind.
Tell me more!
He also uses... an iPhone shudder