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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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[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 48 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That was just the cost to buy a propaganda machine with over half a billions users.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And destroy its influence for the left

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Prevent any more of those pesky arab springs or occupy movements.

[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Legit didn't think of it like that and I like to think of myself as an above-average-intellectual-left-wing-european.

Thank you for the spark.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Everyone has blind spots, intelligence has nothing to do with it.

[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Fair. I just didn't realise mine was so big. Time to have an existential crisis about how big my other blind spots are!

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

And the people still allow it because double posting to mastodon is just too hard. Maybe Facebook will save them.