Microblog Memes
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:
- Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
- Be nice.
- No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
- Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.
Related communities:
Pretty sure podcasts “tracked" you RSS usage since there's an entire analytics industry around podcasts driven through RSS but you agree with the sentiment.
I miss vBulletin boards.
I was there when the internet was bastardized.
It was like watching Rome fall.
None of the things listed have disappeared. Rome didn't fall, it's still alive and well, we are just in city nearby with some people complaining that it's not like Rome.
The old internet died when we started gamifying human interaction.
Get rid of up/down votes. Get rid of reputation points. Get rid of Emojis. Get rid of all that shit. That shit has lead to dopamine overload, and the extremism in human interaction both on and offline.. cause people don't just talk to each other anymore. Humans, on the whole, just regurgitate ideas and comments back and forth that previously got high marks, thus getting them high marks. People tend to be afraid to speak unpopular but necessary truths because they are scared of their magic fairy points being reduced by an onslaught of downvotes/dislikes/whatevers, Or god forbid something you said be misconstrued and a whole hate train pile on you because you have 30 downvotes so obviously you are wrong and evil and bad, thus resulting in interaction being skewed ever further towards more and more extremes in content because of the incessant need to fish for that next hit of the gamified reward systems.
Its toxic as fuck.
Human interaction shouldnt be gamified. It should just..exist.
emojis are the problem? 🥺🥺🥺😭
Voting is great though. It helps sort wheat from chaff.
... Is what i would like to say, but maybe that only works in smaller communities. I know a YouTuber who is currently getting baselessly harassed by popular assholes and she probably has an insane number of dislikes.
Email may not have throttled you but your 9600 baud modem sure did.
"email" also might not throttle you, but every single (actual) mail server on earth will haha
Where do you find cool blogs? I run a blog myself, and have come across a few cool ones, but is there a place where people promote their blogs and where I can find blogs I might like?
Not exactly pure blogs, but random web 1.0 sites. There's some real gems in there.
Back when the internet was just a small collection of weirdos sharing their passions and interests with eachother, without advertising, without SEO (Hell, Search engines didnt even exist during a lot of those early days..), Without bullshit.
It's a better place in most respects.
Also, you didn't need to have a mobile phone just to sign up on a site.
RSS still works pretty well.
As does everything else in the list. It's just that almost no one uses it, because people don't mind the not owning in exchange of the content.
Bring back local BBSes. With monthly GTs.
Catch you at the inn with no guards, how bout that?
Guess I'm the only old-school ThrottleMail user who used to follow The Dopamine Fiend on Xanga.
We need to reject web3 and create web 1.5. a modern version of web 1.0, without the bullshit and platforms.
Join the uBlock+NoScript revolution! We don't even see the social media buttons.
past tense
I still use these things. People who post this shit are telling on themselves.
I still use my feed reader ever day.
I still is if you avoid the dumbassery of social media.
i donno man. i still use rss, and they solved tracking by not putting the article in the xml, just a link that ends in source rss.
Isn't that a legitimate use-case for RSS (specifically Atom) though? My blog's feed just points to the plain-HTML pages with the post. It seems wasteful to put my entire site in a single, polled file.
Or putting a weird (and illegal) consent dialogue the reader can't crawl. Golem.de does that, one of the biggest german tech newspapers.
Still is.
But it isn't. The web has been consolidate by mega corps. We had dreams of decentralization but it all got gobbled up by money and greed. Sure there are examples like Lemmy but Reddit is vastly bigger.
I don't care which is bigger, the old web still lives, and it's possibly bigger than ever before.
Old web was underground, and it still is.
Forums. Good old days.
Haven't posted anything in ages, but I still semi-frequently check up on SomethingAwful. I keep it as my browser home page. It is alive and well.
I miss USENET. I mean, I know it's still there, but last I checked it was 99% pirated media and porn.
Well I'm sold.
Is see no problem there.