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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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[โ€“] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Sadness and dread is a perfect description. As I started reading I was building a mental list of things to stop using - I didn't get very far before I gave up. So many projects I've held up in high regard.

Sadness, dread and defeat.

Edit to add - I want to be clear that I'm not judging the developers of these projects. If they're being overwhelmed with AI generated PRs, they're being forced to use these tools in their "real jobs" and it spills over, or they just feel that this is the way things are going or whatever reason - they've got to do what they've got to do to survive. My sadness, dread and defeat comes from the state of the world and this is just the symptom that's currently front of mind.

[โ€“] rozodru@piefed.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There are many viable and better alternatives than what's on that list. there's really nothing there that should make you think "oh...I don't know what to use now" most of the stuff listed is garbage anyways. Like take Zen Browser for example. you can essentially do that yourself on just about any fork of firefox by simply editing the userChrome.css. Librewolf is another example of "doing it yourself" on just about any fork or firefox or just firefox itself.

[โ€“] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Really?

My list of "not trivial to replace" is:

  • firefox - desktop and android
  • ImageMagik - I don't use it directly, but other things I use depend on it
  • VLC - yeah, I know there are other options but VLC has so much else going for it, it's hard to change
  • Jellyfin - what's the alternative? Kodi? Oh wait..
  • curl
  • rsync
  • .NET - I don't use it directly, but things I use depend on it
  • python
  • vim - I've been using vi for 35 years, I'm not changing now. But I'm happy to use old versions.
  • Joplin - argh, just finished migrating my documentation into here
  • KeepassXC
  • Mastodon
  • Lemmy
  • systemd
  • Linux Kernel!!
[โ€“] ajikeshi@lemmy.world 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

systemd is kinda trivial to replace, just look at devuan

[โ€“] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 3 points 16 hours ago

It might be trivial for you, but not for me. I like systemd - perhaps because I came to Linux from AIX? Anyway, because I like it, I use it on all 4 of my servers - I have custom systemd unit files for applications I run that don't natively support it, I've removed cron and use systemd timers for all my scheduling and I use systemd's remote journal capability to centralise logs to my monitoring server.

[โ€“] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Guess you missed the one that said the Linux Kernel. ๐Ÿคฃ ๐Ÿ˜ญ

~Also, wget over curl? ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ~