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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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[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Also, if you made plans there was no reliable way to chase anybody up. So for example on a Friday you'd all agree to meet on Saturday in town by the park at 10am, then four out of the five of you would show up, you'd wait for 5-10 minutes and if Ashley didn't arrive you'd just be like "Well, I guess we'll find out if she's still alive on Monday" and then just go about your day. In theory someone could call her that evening and find out what happened, but usually nobody bothered.

There was also a brief but very confusing crossover period where you could call a friend, her Dad would answer and say she's already on the other phone (meaning a cell phone) so you'd make chit-chat with her Dad for five minutes in case the other call finished, which it usually didn't.

EDIT: Also I don't know if it was the same anywhere else, but where I grew up (UK) some kids tried to call a payphone from a different payphone and reverse the charges so they could chat for free, and the police showed up and told them off lol.