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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.

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  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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[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I miss the old internet. Usenet was magic.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)
[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, convergence. In retrospect, it seems obvious that the Web would just get extended to do all that stuff. The part that was harder to predict was corporations taking over all the platforms. I guess I just waited to believe that everything would stay democratized.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] tux0r@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Or ... you know, the Usenet?