this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2024
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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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  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
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  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Using Lemmy is nothing at all like sending an email, this analogy needs to stop. Don't overwhelm people with jargon, just say there are different servers that interact with one another or something.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

its similar in the sense that its decentralized. which is otherwise foreign to many.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Call it a framework for social media sites that are all interconnected.

It is like an internet within the internet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Saying framework instantly would shut off my family members brain.

[–] CosmicCleric 1 points 8 months ago

Would it be any better if the word cloud was used, instead of framework?

[–] nifty 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think functionally it doesn’t matter for a user, you just login via an app or webpage. If you don’t have your own instance, then it’s all the same to you.