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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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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 55 points 5 days ago (2 children)

In my experience in New York City, people will generally ignore you, except (usually) when there's a real emergency.

Someone crying? No big deal. Let them cry.

Saw a lady trip and fall down the stairs in the subway, and a bunch of people ran over to help her and return the stuff she dropped.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is normal city stuff to be honest.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As someone living in a (different) city I can't imagine trying to comfort a stranger, even though I would definitely feel for them if I saw them crying.

"don't cry" is repressive behavior, tears wash you clean, the best thing you can do if somebody cries is let them cry. not interfering is the way to go.

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

It's a beautiful city full of beautiful people