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Microblog Memes
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:
- 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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This is literally what all of us who opposed the id verification for porn sites warned people about (not that most of lemmy doesn't agree). This was always going to happen. Foot in the door, passed legal hurdles, now the floodgates open.
You can bet your ass this is going to be standard for browsing most of the "major" internet sites by the end of the decade. What a mess.
Keep telling people about Mastodon. Don't push them. Just explain that this is a result of BlueSky being VC funded and more will follow just like it did with Twitter, Facebook and so on. Add that Mastodon is open source run by multiple non-profits around the world so if one fails, the rest would pickup the slack. Conclude with - if they want to stop having to uproot their network every so often, Mastodon is their best bet for microblogging.
Any social media that wants my ID becomes history, you got no business with it and i don't trust you with it either.
As of late i've been leaning towards things like: "i really wish we didn't have mobile phones" employers have been overstepping boundaries imo ever since we have them and i don't want any of that. I'm yours for 40 hours, everything else is mine.
Along with how every device now comes with ads with some bullshit excuse, i really don't need ads in my home i'm already bombarded with them everywhere i go.
I'm still one of those: "i love seeing peoples interests through well taken photos" instagram users, before every post was an "influencer". Now instagram is: ad, actual ad, ad, ad, ad, actual ad. How the hell did we let that happen and why are people still looking at it...at least i wish it was just looking, with all the goddamn loud music and nonsense audio jumbled into one big mess to raoe your ears even though it isn't even you looking at it but some brainrotten child in a mcdonalds.
I'm getting older and grumpier i guess. I should just learn to live with it.
Libsky is also enforcing the genocider censorship.
But it's no surprise, never trusted it to begin with.
It's to Blue MAGA what Twitter is to Red MAGA
Libsky - X
Blue MAGA - X
crazypeopleonline - trifecta
ohh bloomcole left lemmy.ml because they were blocked by too many people, time for a new block.
Mastodon.social the "main" instance also enforces genocide censorship according to multiple Lemmy users.
Luckily there is...
Twitter...........
And luckily I can do without all of them most of the time.
Sometimes unfortunately people post an X link and I can't see it.
Can't even make an account anymore, I'm on the (black)list.
Kind of ridiculous to suggest it's impossible to make an account. If you really wanted to, there are plenty of ways. How do you think people make sock puppets?
It doesn't let me.
I have to do endless caphtas, when/if I get past it I get the spinning wait cursor that never finishes.
Even the time before this started when I could make one after 2 days it would say there was an anomaly with my account and block it that way.
Then you aren't trying hard enough friend, and it makes you seem like you've got an agenda.
I'm just going to leave this here...
They always have the same excuse for authoritarianism measures don't they?
Think of the children, safety or terrorism
It has always been so really - it's a clever strategy really. It ensures you can be easily branded if you opposed it "don't you care about online safety for children", and ensures it remains in place as "government removes online safety for children" is a powerful piece of propaganda.
I keep meaning to team up with a sociologist and write a piece on this particular tactic; alas time gets away from me!
Terrorism in the UK is now when you oppose genocide so the mask has gone fully off
I've been telling people that Bluesky is just another Twitter, even started by a lot of the same people.
Skip the drama and use Mastodon.
Mastodon launching quote toots at just the right time.
Bluesky is the reason I'm pretty much over with the idea of ever convincing people to worry about privacy, digital freedom or societal issues at large.
Twitter was bad, became even worse, people wanted to migrate - sure. We had Mastodon, which worked perfectly, was Federated, was open for subscriptions, it was free, had working third party apps and a community already. Barely anybody migrated.
Then Bluesky shows up, and it's the exact same technology, only more limited and with lesser freedoms... but because it's a commercial company behind it, people immediately chose it. The argument that people don't understand federation doesn't even work, because the promise that Bluesky was going to participate in the Fediverse was even part of the marketing material.
People CRAVE big tech. They're not victims of abuse or ignorance, they're willing participants that would rather be enslaved by a corporation than use any collaborative effort.
the issue with Bluesky is primarily the userbase. the vast majority of them want something that "just works" and if you provide them with alternatives they scream and reeee and all that. it's annoying. also annoying the constant unoriginal posts of "Mastodon is the Linux of social media" like it's some gotcha moment for them.
We had Mastodon, which worked perfectly
tbh several of my colleagues complained that they found discovering new content and/or content outside of their servers really hard, and the whole federation is just too complicated for not-technologically-minded people 🤷
(no personal experience because I don't use any microblogging platforms)
I constantly get downvoted for "blaming the victim" when I say that, but its true! If you have the power to do something, and choose not to, youre partially to blame...
I dont get how people can pont fingers then go buy the same product from the same asshole and act surprised...
You blame Humanity's nature, and thus devalue the truly big difference, just one of these social networks has millions and millions invested in marketing.
It's clear that advertising has a lot of power to influence people's choices, otherwise oligarchs wouldn't burn so much money on it.
It’s clear that advertising has a lot of power to influence people’s choices, otherwise oligarchs wouldn’t burn so much money on it.
Marketing, advertising, etc. It's a science, a field of study. What is the goal? To make people buy things, ostensibly. How do they chose to do achieve that goal? Deep analysis of the human psyche and studying methods to manipulate them into taking intended actions.
Advertising is the science of psychological warfare.
Bluesky barely had any effective marketing at all. Their main push was word of mouth and the "exclusivity" of launching under a invite-only system. That's it.
But "oh, this big tech wants my data and not yours" was enough.
In a world full of bots where machines can pass the Turing test, how do you know if this word of mouth wasn't actually a marketing campaign? And not to mention the tons of influencers creating content that is often nothing more than advertising.
The "exclusivity" thing was surely one.
I wouldn't immediately chalk up the success of private commercial operations over open non-profit ones to a slavish misanthropic outlook on humanity. Consider that with millions in investment capital comes millions in marketing budget, too. There's an information war and we're outgunned.
The average person is a fucking moron man ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
average person uses x and when you tell them that x stands for everything wrong with the world they just say something like "yeah but Joe Schlimblio posts on x and I follow them"
Average *Japanese person.
The usage of twitter was never as high as other social medias in Europe (and I presume other parts of the globe too).
Looking at statista; it seems the main perpetrators are the US and Japan, (30% and 56% of the relative populations).
From what I can tell (or be bothered to check); Japan is the only country with over half the population on X. Therefore making the sentence 'the average Japanese person uses X, to be true.
On a tangent, I wonder what Japanese X is like; is it just a sea of hand drawn tentacle based erotica, and is the source of the countries porn? Or does it see the same types of nationalism drives that western X does? Is Grok rewriting Japanese empire war crimes?... There's a whole world on there we're not privvy too.
Here in Japan, I used to use it to follow up and coming Japanese illustrators and webcomic artists, most of who tweeted fun, non-political, wholesome things. I got live updates whenever we had typhoons and earthquakes.
Obviously there's toxicity if you look for it, but I didn't really see it. Which is why I honestly didn't understand why so many people shit in Twitter especially on "tech/bologicallysocially-aware" circles like Reddit calling it toxic. The reason why I stopped was because Musk bought it, not because of the content I was seeing. Maybe I was just lucky.
Note: This is just a single old man's anecdote, so please take it with a huge grain of salt.
Grain of salt or not, your Insight into this is both valuable and appreciated; thank you for sharing.
It's interesting that even back then JP twitter wasn't very political. On the English areas of the site a lot of political rhetoric definitely still found it's home. Granted nowhere near as much as current levels; but I think that's more of a statement on just how much musk has tried to turn X into a political weapon more than anything else.
Not even just average people. Exceptional people who absolutely know better still fall for this shit. The "marketplace of ideas" is a failure.
If people want real ideas they need to grow them and care for them and that shit is hard and it will cost you time and money.
People don’t crave big tech, big tech just has more money and willingness to advertise and astroturf. When a newspaper or tv show or influencer mentions BlueSky in a story, it’s a 50:50 chance that an expensive marketing agency fed them it.
I think this is true. Billionaires and their corporations are obviously morally bankrupt and have been manipulating all of us for long years. But at the same time, it seems to me that there is also some 'consent' on our part. There's a lot of people who will still choose to be oppressed, even after having everything explained to them and seemingly having understood.
Perhaps thay's how deep all the decades of social engineering go. Or maybe we just really like convenience, to the point where we're willing to become slaves if it means our lives are convenient.
This is simple. Age verify because Bluesky is filled with porn. Soon, almost every state or the nation will require age verification if you host porn.
You can thank the religious GOP trash
In this case it's the fault of the UK government and a Tory era policy labour has kept