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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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[–] egrets 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Reclaim" is still the term we use for that, even though just "claim" or "seize" might be more fitting. See also

homophobic slurremoved

which some LGBT+ people use in an almost tongue-in-cheek way to refer to themselves and each other, as a way to invert and defang the hostility with which it is used by bigots.

[–] Seleni 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Huh, your slur got removed. Didn’t realize World did that, thought it was just ml or something.

[–] egrets 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that was news to me, I wasn't sure if it was just my client. I'm not complaining - but I've been half-expecting an automatic ban!

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

Banning would create a lot of false positives