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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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[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 17 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Already the case with Reddit. My bank and credit cards keep pushing me, but haven't required it yet - the moment they do, they're gone. There's nothing an app can do that a browser can't also while giving me more control.

[–] Teilzeitlaurer@piefed.world 20 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

There absolutely is something an app can do better than a website in a browser. That being tracking you. But yeah, Youtube in a firefox-based browser with uBlock Origin and Sponsor Block is just so much better than the official app. Sadly Google has become so aggressive with blocking users using a VPN that I cannot use Newpipe or Freetube anymore :(

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 2 points 5 hours ago

I'm putting my faith in the DDG tracker blocker feature, but tbh I have no idea if it actually works or not.

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

on graphene often apps will say they don't work because there is no playservices but then they work just finw bwcause of workarounds the os has in place, and i have mullvad on which has content blockers on the dns level if ypu activate them.

you can also fake giving them all permissions

on this setup mobile is actually more private i think, because of sandboxing, there is no cookies or refs but also not nealy as many fingerprinting markers that make you look super unique

[–] SpacePanda@mander.xyz 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Ive been having a lot of issues with grayjay too.

[–] SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

I use morphe, its a modded version of the actual YouTube app.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Same with PipePipe. Whatever changes Alphabet/Google/Youtube are making are clearly meant to fuck with FOSS apps.

[–] Phantaloons@piefed.zip 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

"Darn, I can't watch youtube without ads."

google: here it comes!! He's openi-

"...I'm gonna read a book."

google: FFFFFFWHAT!?