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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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[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, keeping a product that is not trivial to produce in good condition is responsible behavior. Pretending it's totally ok to treat all products as disposable is not only bad for the planet, but jouvenile and rather pathetic.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But you proved the exact opposite point. Books are insanely trivial to produce, therefore treating them however you want us entirely appropriate.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I proved nothing except your disrespect for the achievement of all humanity that came before you.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You're being preposterous and reproving my point again.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

lol no. Your disrespect for the written word will not go down in history as the cheeky joke you wish.

... and if you're not joking, reality will not be kind to your ilk.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 1 points 15 hours ago

You've shown yourself to be a fool who thinks they're smart. I'm done wasting effort on you

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

There is some form of unspoken decency around how we treat books and knowledge that transcends mere utilitarian arguments. I think.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 1 points 17 hours ago

Again though, the knowledge itself is the important part, the individual copy out of millions of identical copies is not. Anything that makes it easier for someone to read and learn is infinitely more important than the individual copy that they read it from. You have to ask yourself, do you care more about the physical book than you do about someone actually reading it?