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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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[–] RovingDiary@lemmy.zip 81 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Almost every refuge in internet is for profit data hungry giants. Where are the random forums, personal blogs and the virtual world that used to exist.

[–] bashibazouk@lemmy.world 68 points 1 week ago

All over the place, they just don't get indexed high in search...

[–] skribe@piefed.social 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I still blog. Nobody reads it because search sucks, but I keep blogging. Others do too. There are dozens of us.

[–] RovingDiary@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Me too. With no telemetry or interaction I don't even know if even a single person has read my dump of thoughts.

[–] skribe@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago

WordPress has the ActivityPub plugin, which is the only way I've managed to disseminate my articles and have people interact with them.

[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who's your webhost? The data is almost certainly there.

[–] RovingDiary@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

It's just a static jekyll server I host on my own.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago

I’ve been meaning to get back into blogging

I don’t know though

[–] Town@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

Maybe this is it

[–] gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Where are the random forums, personal blogs and the virtual world that used to exist.

they're right here actually

[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Neocities exists

[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] rhymeswithduck@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just seeing all those thumbnails with the shocked face and stupid arrows makes me want to scratch my eyes out.

[–] guitarfosec 5 points 1 week ago

But without the red circle and arrows how will you know you’re supposed to be looking at the exploding police car?

[–] gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Just seeing all those thumbnails with the shocked face and stupid arrows makes me want to scratch ~~my~~ their eyes out.