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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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[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

It's how the market shakes out.

Basically, the main advantage to piracy is price. No legitimate vendor is going to beat $0

It also used to be that you'd get sub-par quality compared to the physical version. However pirates have really stepped up over the last 20 years and now often offer the best version of any given media. Lossless audio and 4K video are widely available.

The place where legitimate services still beat piracy is convenience. Streaming services are easy to use, the content is always what it says it is, and people generally want to do the right thing and pay for services rather than steal them.

However, when piracy beats legit options on both price and convenience, people flock to piracy.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 hour ago

Piracy isn't just a price thing. It's literally more convenient than having 4 or 5 streaming services and still potentially needing to pay extra just to watch a major movie that just came out

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MangoCat@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 hour ago

Would you download a car?

Hell yeah, if I could.