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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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But by doing so, you've surrendered your voice. You say it makes things clearer, but sometimes ambiguity is good. You say it makes quicker and punchier phrasing, but some writing is best done low and slow. LLMs are by their nature the least common denominator, all the color of the creative world melted down and blended into a uniform grey. By relying on the LLM to alter your writing style, you're making your writing more bland, generic, and indistinguishable from everyone else. You're giving up what makes your writing you're writing. You're just another hand for the machine.
I do not consider it a positive use, as I would rather read imperfect human writing than grammatically perfect machine drivel. Imperfections are not a reason to enjoy human-created works. They're the only thing that makes the works worth appreciating.
I'm writing fiction. Sometimes parts benefit from slower or quick pacing. Sometimes you write something that makes no sense.