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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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[–] MolochHorridus@piefed.social 20 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Fellow vintage computer enthusiast or he stepped away for quite a long time. Either way, a nice throwback.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Or they work in a lab or industrial setting. Lots of computers running machines that nobody will touch because the machine is worth more than their salary. Not just XP, even at my most recent university job I was still seeing 2000, 98SE, and in one case MacOS 9. All of these I have seen are air-gapped though… for the most part.

[–] bajabound@lemmy.world 1 points 30 minutes ago

We have a bunch of this shit still around for instruments. Every year we tell them to budget for replacement. Every year someone comes screaming that their 2000 or XP box isn't booting. Sorry, hardware failure... And we don't keep anything around that can support it anymore. If it was that important to production you should have replaced it a long time ago.