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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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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It took me years to accept that mid video sponsor ads are just... a thing now, and it ultimately makes little sense for me to just give a blanket 'nope' to everyone who uses them...

We thought we could build a digital utopia, and laughed off 'the corpos will buy all of it' as fanciful cyberpunk doomer hysteria.

... well... turns out that wasn't hysteria.

Oh well. At least I can more easily conceptualize myself as something like 'down on his luck shadowrunner', rofl.

The old logic from the 90s still holds -> the more pernicious the ads, the less you should want to be there.

That it all got functionally digitally enclosed and normalized doesn't change that... you just gotta deal with the terror of knowing most people these days just literally are programmed by advertisements and algorithms.

[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I never see ads almoat anywhere, I have layers of blocking, PiHole, UBlock Origin, Ghostery, often use a VPN, NextDNS on the phone, a few other plug ins.

[–] Rug_Pisser@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've been using adguard dns on my phone for a few years but have noticed a lot more ads sneaking though on certain sites. Would you recommend next dns?

[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 2 points 15 hours ago

I have had good luck with it and there is a pretty generous free tier I think if you want to try it.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

+1 for Sponsorblock