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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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Gap in resume (fedia.io)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Original post: aus.social (Mastodon)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait "folks" has a status implication? IS NO WORD SIMPLY UNPROBLEMATIC!? IS NOTHING SACRED FROM THIS LINGUISTIC HELL

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

the way i see it, "folks" can refer to a more traditional group of people, most likely rural, and you wouldn't call nobles or people of other high status "folks".

but also i doubt people think it is problematic; it's just a quirk of the English language that "chat" emerged basically out of nowhere with the closest analogue being "audience".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

the way i see it, "folks" can refer to a more traditional group of people, most likely rural, and you wouldn't call nobles or people of other high status "folks".

But you'd call nobles or high status people "chat"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I meant more that chat implies it could be literally anyone because it's anonymous. Like when the game's developer or some guy with 100k followers suddenly drops in to a little guy's stream. You wouldn't know unless they announced themselves lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

i'd call them "pricks" but you do you