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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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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Because Mastodon needs a reliable instance with a catchy domain name. Maybe even the slightest bit of advertising.

Someone reputable could make a real Twitter competitor for about $2m a year these days.

I'd say Mozilla, but they just took all their social media funding away and threw it at AI. Genius.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

mastodon.world? mastodon.social?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Which don't exactly have the name recognition of The New York Times.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Would you worry Google would have too much influence?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I would worry that Google will simply discontinue the product abruptly. Google is unreliable with product longevity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It's rather see NYTimes get into it. Even if they time allow outside signups on their instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd say Mozilla, but they just took all their social media funding away and threw it at AI.

Nobody was using their instance from what I heard. So a bit of a wasted effort.

What sort of money are they throwing at AI? I only know about the sidebar and that's basically just a tab to a website of your choosing. Couldn't have been expensive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

They never allowed people to use it. There was a wait-list. It never opened afaik outside of Mozilla people.

[–] undefinedValue 1 points 2 months ago

Mozilla is all in on ads actually