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.

RULES:

Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
Absolutely no NSFL content.
Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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Same with formatting a phone number (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by simonweiss@lemmy.ml to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Honestly I feel like a screenshot of a toot is better than just seeing a Lemmy-formated toot.

Maybe a cross-post feature which generates what the screenshot effectively shows but formatted in html to match mastodon formatting with functioning links that's hosted on the instance the Lemmy community is in to avoid federation issues?

Edit to add: on the other hand I regularly forward the screenshots to friends on other platforms, so I'd either screenshot the thing created to stop screenshots or need a share/download button to create a image because I know my friends ain't interested in clicking a wierd fediverse link to view a 2 sentence joke they may or may not find funny

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[–] freamon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

We're stuck with the HTML formatting that lemmy provides us, unfortunately. It's not just about an image vs. text though - it's also about being from the original author. OP for this post is getting plenty of replies, but I've no idea if it's an issue they care about, or just something they saw and found passingly amusing.

As for sending on, a screenshot to friends on non-ActivityPub platforms is more reasonable (although being text means you could just copy/paste it, and then include any friends with vision impairments too).

But yeah, there's lots of pro's to a screenshot that I don't have an argument against (I posted in this thread, but it's not like I'm going to show up everytime someone yoinks something from Mastodon)

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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago*

Oh yeah I was just imagining out loud what a better way of handling cross-posted content across federated platforms could look like

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