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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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[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 44 points 2 days ago (6 children)

10 years ago, I privately refused a gifted Alexa after Christmas, explaining "Hey I work in the industry, I know people who work for FAANG, Amazon spending billions on very smart engineers building systems to harvest data is a bet that they will be able to extract even more money from me, is it still within the return window." My aunt told me to go live in a cave.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I was gifted an Alexa by a (previous) girlfriend. I haven't even opened it because I have very little use for an AI companion. And I too know people working in FAANG and how invasive those smart devices are.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

My brother has/had a Google nest router, and that absolutely floored me.

[–] ianept@thelemmy.club 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Has she seen the price of caves lately?

[–] musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Alexa, list local cave prices."

[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

"If you have to ask, you can't afford it."

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

duh... you don't buy a nice cave, you buy a starter cave and install grey click flooring and a pot faucet over the stove.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Then paint the whole thing flat white, really splurge on a granite counter top for the kitchen, and a deep single basin sink. (Single basin sinks were made by the devil to torment me)

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

Things like this is why I don't even bother.
"Thanks Aunt!" then just chuck it into the trash at home.
Or try replacing the brains with a Raspberry Pi, idk.

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 days ago

Something tells me that aunt calls for help when they have tech issues.

Maybe just personal experience...

For help, you know what you talk about. But if it is about privacy or safety, I am hyperbolic... apparently

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Caves seem pretty cozy tbh