this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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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. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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[–] BeefPiano@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As an aside, isn’t the whole point of the Fediverse that we should be able to move content around? It’s sad that the only way to upvote a Mastodon post on Lemmy is through a screenshot or a link. Why can’t it just be a post that we can upvote?

[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Technically, it could. You can access Lemmy posts from Mastodon, and see that it's basically a comment boosted by the community at Lemmy.

Just one of the 1001+ features possible, but still missing on Lemmy.

[–] gencha@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

No! Must post screenshots of text for maximum engagement!

[–] mihnt@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

You can do that from kbin. No need for screenshots.

[–] ReadyUser31@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Firstly here is the original for you! https://aus.social/@burgerdrome/111045551054809770

Secondly, yes I agree, sort of. Images are a common format to take posts from multiple microblog sources for this community, so tumblr posts and Mastodon toots and tweets from X all come in a consistent format. This also makes it easy to share onwards too.

Someone else mentioned kbin, and someone else mentioned posting to Lemmy from Mastodon, which is possible... but images are just easiest right now.