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Data can be hurtful
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this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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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.
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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That's not true at all. Video, photography, and even paintings, have been used as early stages of courtship going back centuries. Matchmaking professionals have historically made heavy use of visual mediums to entice prospective partners into meeting. I remember dating services in the 1980s that would use video introductions and Polaroid photos to get people to meet one another. Photograph catalogues of singles ready to mingle in Matrimonial Ads of the 19th century. Oil paintings and ink sketches were commonly traded people prospective partners before that. Whatever you might say of the method, it isn't new.
I'll never understand the folks who think going to a service specifically dedicated to meeting other single people and courting them is weirder than approaching random people and hitting on them in public.
TBF that is pretty weird, where exactly did I say do that?