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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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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (14 children)

Paradox of tolerance doesn't include collective punishment, mate. Especially considering the .world and .ml instances are the largest ones, to the point where they're listed on the Wiki article for Lemmy.

Just imagine - you seeing that Reddit is going to shit, wanting to change to something better, looking up Lemmy, seeing that one of these two instances being the largest, joining, and immediately being called a Nazi, or some such bullshit by an elitist prick.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)

You know we're talking about ICE, right? the literal evil paramilitary squad of a crumbling empire. The ones who kidnap children, the ones who break into homes and disappear people.

I could understand your being pissed off if it was some fucker getting cancelled for something unimportant.

But people died, people died. This ain't the same thing.

And no, it literally does. You don't want to turn into a nazi bar, you don't let Nazis in. If the owners let Nazis in, you don't go to the bar and you tell every other fucker to do the same.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

You know we’re talking about ICE, right?

No, we're talking about blocking an instance because it "accepted" an ICE account.

the literal evil paramilitary squad of a crumbling empire. The ones who kidnap children, the ones who break into homes and disappear people.

I know full well who they are. But they're still - like it or not - a government organisation. There should be tools to help moderation in such situations. Like, if you have your average right-wing nutjob lying non-stop, flag the account, make it only publish posts after a review, or something.

I could understand your being pissed off if it was some fucker getting cancelled for something unimportant.

But people died, people died. This ain’t the same thing.

OK, so what do you propose? Say, Johnny Regular signs up in .blahaj.zone. Then goes insane and starts a mass shooting, killing a hundred people.

Do we blow up the instance, blacklist everybody on it because "people died" and "nobody wants to be the instance with ~~ICE~~ Johnny Regular on it"?

And no, it literally does. You don’t want to turn into a nazi bar, you don’t let Nazis in. If the owners let Nazis in, you don’t go to the bar and you tell every other fucker to do the same.

So add a mechanism to review accounts before they're created, especially for gov users, instead of nuking an instance because one got let in.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

a government organisation

Ain't my government, and blahaj.zone is hosted in Netherlands

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 month ago

Are you just admitting you have no more counterarguments?

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