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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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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Similarly to how Trump seems like he's maybe (hopefully) overplaying his hand with the speed and brazenness of his authoritarian overreaches, AI companies simply tried to deskill people too quickly to addict them enough to the "the resemblance of skills on an expensive cloud" machine that is AI.

If they had--like they did with other "platforms"--really addicted the users with something they couldn't get elsewhere for free, allowed them to get comfortable enough to be deskilled, and then done the rug pull they might not be whining right now.

I think the reason this was different is that the models are just inefficient and resource hungry as shit, and the cost of addicting the users by giving it away for free is just too high.

That's where the whining comes in. Come on guys....get addicted!