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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:
- 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.
- 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.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- 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.
- 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.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
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How is this even possible to do. Heat maps and knowing all of this data? Wildly new to me that this was even possible let alone 15 years ago.
If you think heat mapping is wild, the finger printing they've been doing for just as long is going to melt your mind.
Like this usually. At least in my experience...
"Sign up for your chance to attend "name event here" for you and 3 of your friends or family! You won't want to miss this investment opportunity as our special guest "fuck head" talks about the investment potential of upcoming alternative energies! Just fill out this form below or click here to reserve your spot."
The form would obviously need things like, what are your investment goals, do you have dietary restrictions, would you like to receive future communications about other exciting opportunities...
The heat map thing is nothing new and still def around. If you click I agree and don't bother to spend 8 years reading the fine print I guarantee you have a profile similar to this. Same as me.
The info is easy to get, people just need incentive but the better you can hide the reason for needing it (you might eat here if you win we need to know what you can't eat) or you are interested in setting up a college fund for your X amount of kids... The easier it is to mine that info.
I wish I was making this stuff up but I was an amateur back then and the capabilities nowadays are faaar beyond that. It's manipulation plain and simple.
Tracking links, mainly. Here's how to stop sharing them. Consider this a PSA, spread it far and wide. Sanitize your damn links!!