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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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] sonofearth@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

TBH I prefer the modern minimal UIs. It is easy to understand. Although I don’t mind having an option.

[–] inari@piefed.zip 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This reminded me of the absolutely god-damn-awful DVD menu of the first Harry Potter film

I think more than one of them were like this! I just ripped a bunch of old DVDs to my Jellyfin server, and for some movies, I had to first run it in VLC to double-check that I was ripping the right track, which meant navigating through that nonsense... I remember doing it with multiple HP discs.

[–] Michal@programming.dev 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Peak skeuomorphism.

Smartphones and mobile phones used to be inventive too.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I loved the more blob / liquid designs like the rio forge

Rio Forge

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

There was more then a few Winamp skins that looked like that

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Remember when the Google search trend for "skeomorphism" peaked?

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This comment section is the first time I've seen the word, and it's been multiple times.

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[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 9 points 1 month ago
[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

God bless the rains down in Africa...

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[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is not the era of the internet I remember fondly. I liked the static internet of the 90’s then when it started getting more minimal in 2010’s when flash was on its way out.

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[–] sorter_plainview@lemmy.today 6 points 1 month ago

On a side note. There was Magic School Bus game like apps, which were brought to the public by none other than Microslop. What a time was that..

[–] architectonas@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Let them have fun!

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