this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2024
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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Good thing Tesla's board gave him those billions

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's 45 people a month that wouldn't have to ever work again in their entire lives and maybe even their kids if they invest it smartly. Or ya know, lift hundreds of families from poverty each month. Instead it shall go into Trump's crime empire, money go BRRRR.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago

The problem with this kind of talk is that it refuses to acknowledge how much of X's traffic - all the social media traffic - comes from outside the US now, from non-English speaking countries who don't care about your bullshit, so long as the platform keeps working for them. Americans are having a very hard time with that.

So you shake your finger at the people whose language you speak, but it doesn't matter if all of them decide you're right and drop the platform. There will still be millions of users. Your shaming act is not appropriate.

Even ignoring that, a lot of these people have no business model without X, specifically. I've heard tons of them moan about not finding another platform like it. You need both reach and the ability to post furry wolf cock drawings without consequence. These parasites would all have to drop their bullshit and go get punchclock jobs if they didn't have X, they would have to give up their parasocial position over others without it, which means no amount of your liberal white woman shaming is ever going to be enough.

The really ugly truth is that all the normal-ass people who don't make their money online have abandoned X already, all that's left is this huge army of grifters and whoever is still there for the porn. It makes me mad, because I deliberately left the site before Elon even breathed a word about buying it, but it follows you everywhere like a disease wanting a host.

All these pricks went to Mastodon and brought their Twitter shit with them. They even bullied somebody into giving them an algorithmic feed. Now Mastodon is shit, too, and this woman is part of the problem. Shut up. Stop farming attention and leave an inch of space for the people who don't want to be part of your personal business model. Fuck you, as well, lady. Fuck all you parasocials.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Elon wondering how much he gotta pay to get Trump back on Twitter, and so far, that’s not enough.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago

Thank goodness for Twitter, he lost $1.7 billion per month in the first year (including valuation) so now he has less to spend on Trump.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Any Lemmy instances block links to X? I'd like to see less of it on here. It's just truth social with deeper pockets.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Connect on Android has a few very cool features like keyword/community/domain blocklist!

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

Thanks! Already use connect and haven't tried this. I'd prefer it on the instance side for greater impact, but this is nice. I already use it to block instances and communities but didn't realize it could filter links.

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

Kbin/Mbin has this feature where you can block posts from a certain domain, maybe Lemmy does too? https://lemmy.ca/post/684030

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

A good solution is to take screenshots so it only counts as one visit instead of everybody viewing the post driving traffic to Twitter.

Or better yet, Mastodon / federated microblogging platforms.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Damn that would be so cool

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