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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.

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  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.
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[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 18 points 6 hours ago (7 children)
[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 23 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Parks, libraries, community centers, free museums, beaches, etc.

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[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

I'm guessing home is first space, work/school is second. Anywhere else is third?

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

yea, that’s pretty much it. third spaces include stuff like bars, public libraries, parks, public squares… basically, places where you can socialize outside of work.

they still exist, obviously, but many of them have disappeared over the years, especially the ones that don’t expect you to pay. it’s even worse in suburbs, especially car-dependent suburbs, because those are zoned as housing only (so no libraries, bars, sometimes not even a park), and if you’re a kid you can’t drive to a city, so outside of school (and maybe extracurricular activities, if your parents can afford those), you’re stuck at home where the only place you can socialize is the internet.

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[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Corporate ran the numbers and discovered maintaining a lobby costs more than the revenue a lobby generates from customers who stay for hours while only ordering a thing or two. They've come up with a plan to push those numbers higher by removing the power outlets from the lobby, forcing those customers to leave so we can flip those seats faster.

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[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

It’s leisure time - I don’t see the need to rebrand it with the weirdly technical “third spaces” term. Kids being creative with the time and means they have available.

It’s fun to see what they can do when you don’t monitor and try to control every aspect of their lives.

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago (13 children)

What third space did we used to have as kids that we no longer have?

[–] valar@lemmy.ca 18 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 1 points 6 hours ago (6 children)
[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Not really.

I'm old enough to remember when grade school kids could get on a bus or subway alone without anyone saying anything.

If you made 'Stand By Me' today all the parents would be locked up for child endangerment.

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io -2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Sure... but it's not so much that places have changed, but that parenting has.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 5 points 4 hours ago

I mean, if you can't just show up, than the places have changed.

[–] taj@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Yes, but very few parents just let their kids run around outside. Very few kids get to walk or bike to friends houses, without adult supervision. We have all internalized "stranger danger" and the "danger" that random people are to kids.

[–] valar@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Most kids today can't just go outside with all their friends and come back when the streetlights turn on like many of us did as kids.

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[–] stenAanden@feddit.dk 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Is lemmy hooked up to the algorithm? I just saw this post 2 minutes after first hearing that term "third spaces" on Spotify

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