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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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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The blockchain nfts the metaverse aren't successful?

These three things generate massive amounts of revenue. The metaverse especially is a billion dollar IP.

The word success doesn't have a positive connotation to it in this case.

[–] missingno@fedia.io 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The metaverse had a billion dollars pumped into it, and yet for all they money they spent they have literally no users to show for it. Likewise for NFTs, a few idiots got suckered into paying for monkey JPGs and are now left holding a bag that no one wants.

The blockchain has a small cult trading money back and forth to make it look bigger than it really is. But it's never achieved any kind of mainstream adoption as the currency true believers keep insisting it will be. And it never will, because it's way too inefficient to ever scale.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Literally everything you said in the comment above is wrong and you probably made it up on the spot.

There are 300,000 to 500,000 bit coin transactions per day with over 700 million users worldwide. I'd say that's scaled pretty fucking high. https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/state-of-crypto-report-2025/

Global metaverse related revenue was about 17-18 billion USD in 2023 and is projected to exceed 50 billion USD by 2028, implying strong top-line growth even though profitability is uneven. https://www.psmarketresearch.com/market-analysis/metaverse-market

In 2024-2025, estimates put the NFT market in the 30-40+ billion dollar range (market size or annual sales), with giving a projected 34.1 billion dollars valuation in 2025 and Q1 2025 sales over 8.2 billion dollars on their own. https://fortunly.com/statistics/nft-statistics/

Even 3d TVs generated 100s of billions of dollars globally before they fizzled out in the 2010s. https://www.360iresearch.com/library/intelligence/3d-tv

I will however admit the glasses where a full on bust.