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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 a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 181 points 1 week ago (26 children)

Just because an account got verified doesn't mean Bluesky agrees with them

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network -1 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Yes it does. It means they are okay enough with them to not ban them.

Surely there are some things that warrant a ban on bluesky. There's some sort of line beyond which you are not welcome. We can infer from this verification that ice is on the safe side of the line.

[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I'm sure there's at least one marxist that's verified on bsky, does that mean jack dorsey is a communist?

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It would mean that communism is acceptable to him. What's tripping you up here?

[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

So does that mean Dorsey is a nazbol since he agrees with both communists and fascists? There are neoliberals on bluesky as well, how does that affect our triangulation of his beliefs? I'm not saying you have to agree with how the company moderates its platform, but clearly as far as bluesky is concerned allowing someone to use the platform is not an endorsement of their views. It can't be, because they allow people with diametrically opposing ideologies to use their platform.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Allowing them on the platform doesn't mean a full endorsement of the belief. It means that he (or whoever makes the decision) finds the belief acceptable enough to platform.

There is likely some line which is too far, and not allowed on the platform. Perhaps "eating live babies"? "Kicking puppies"? Something that is so unacceptable, it would not be allowed. This argument is that ICE and Nazi stuff belongs on the far side. That as a platform owner, you can say "that's not allowed here".

Allowing one person to say "I think the NY Yankees are the best" and another to say "I think the NY mets are the best" on your platform (eg: website, newspaper, bulletin board) doesn't mean that you personally believe both. But if you let someone post "I think white people are best" and just leave that up, that's saying that's an acceptable message to say. Just harmless like talking about baseball.

This argument is some positions, like what ICE is doing, is outside the range of acceptable. The platform (a website in this case) should say they have to take that elsewhere.

[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I have zero disagreements with this comment. My read of the top level comment was pretty literal, which is a tendency I have that gets me into trouble sometimes.

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