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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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[–] Elting@piefed.social 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Its relevant because it describes a company that uses DRM for you to access your stuff which is exactly what the post is of.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's the connection to the post, but it's not a connection to the parent comment and also not Valve's decision

[–] Elting@piefed.social -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The original comment is also describing DRM. Look I know and understand that steam works great and is easier than piracy but that doesn’t mean it isnt DRM.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Okay, sure. I don't think either I or the parent comment said it wasn't DRM, I just read the parent comment as explaining the sentence that was described as ambiguous. The question remains: how is that DRM Steam's fault?

[–] Elting@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

One drive DRM isnt their fault but steam itself is DRM for any of the games you bought there. You cannot access your steam games without your log in and that is DRM. On the spectrum between spotify and bandcamp, steam is much closer to spotify in terms of your ownership of the media you payed for.

Edit: if you’re confused about conversational tangents then I cant’t explain that to you

[–] Urist@leminal.space 1 points 1 day ago

There are a lot of DRM-free games on Steam. You have to log in to download them in the first place obviously (they haven't figured out how to make downloads magic yet unfortunately) but once they're downloaded you can just launch the executable however you want.

Any game on Steam that has DRM has DRM because the publisher wants it that way.