this post was submitted on 28 Apr 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.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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[–] disguy_ovahea 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Colloquialization. Get enough people using a new word, or existing word in a new way, and it will eventually be added to the dictionary.

I accepted the inevitable downfall of mankind when “unfriend” was added in 2009.

[–] dojan 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But fetch still hasn't happened. :(

[–] disguy_ovahea 2 points 6 months ago

Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen. It’s not going to happen.