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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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.

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maybe sending dms across the fediverse (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You're right in theory, but in practice the point is that email survives because it's not a closed, proprietary protocol.

Unfortunately I don't think the issue is quite so simple. We used to have open chat protocols that were slowly strangled by big tech until only their solutions remained.

I think the biggest problem is simply user apathy, if users cared more we wouldn't have the whole US green/blue bubble problem

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We kind of still have IRC.

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

Irc is still great. I feel there is more tech channels then social channels nowadays tho.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Only tech people know about irc I suppose.

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

Because it's not as user friendly, but it could be. Things like KiwIRC or IRCcloud make it easier, but it could be more socially focused. Fuck if I had money I'd do so many things just for the fuck of it.

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

I don't know what's unfriendly about it. It's as plain and simple as can be.