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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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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.

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[–] Awebo@lemm.ee 45 points 2 years ago (1 child)

They forgot the last step: delete the promo emails from the company you never signed up for

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[–] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The worst thing is that you gave them the permission to send emails to you, but you did not even notice it.

If you give some information to any for profit company you can be sure they will use that information and if you decline the permits they are going to keep asking until you eventually miss click.

For example if you fill shopping basked, but abandon it after filling your information they can contact you once as "a friendly reminder" about the cart and they can keep that information legally for few weeks until they must anomize the data. And if you at some point clicked something where you accept the marketing permits they can keep that information "as long as the company thinks it is reasonable to keep and/or revelant information for their operation."

Source: Im part of the problem. Atleast for now.

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[–] Awebo@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I am glad I am using proton. I never give my real email to any website and create an alias for every website. That way, when I ever receive a spam email, I know exactly which company sold my data and I can turn that alias off permanently.

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