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this post was submitted on 01 Feb 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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Hard coding other website engine names into the structure of your own website engine seems... not great.
Lemmy doesn't show posts from Mastodon for the exact same reason it doesn't show posts from Loops. Or PixelFed. Or Miskey. Or Bookwyrm. Or other Lemmy users.
A "Mastodon" feed would encompass all of those things. And it would promote the idea that all that exists outside of Lemmy are the most popular wish.com versions of existing mainstream services. It neither leaves room for acknowledging less popular options, nor anything that's genuinely new.
Plus, there are already website engines that let you follow both groups and users. If that's something you want, mbin is right there. Why not use that?
You know how there's All, Home and Local? I'm basically suggesting adding "other federated services" to that list so that you can specifically go and look at things outside of the service you use that have found their way to your instance.
Would it actually be a useful way of perusing that content? Not particularly, but it would probably get a lot more people to see and get interested in the other federated services and actually see how federation works
Would this be better as a front-end project instead? Definitely, but I wrote that comment literally as the words were flowing out of my brain while on a work break and didn't realize that at the time.