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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 10 months ago (8 children)

My impression of the main microblogging sites has been:

Twitter: musk fanboys, celebrities and people who can't/won't switch

Threads: conservatives, alt-right, grifters and celebrities

Truth social: conspiracy nuts, maggots, alt-right

Mastodon/kbin: nerds, left-wingers and furries

Bluesky: furries, left-wingers and people who liked pre-musk Twitter

[–] [email protected] 78 points 10 months ago (4 children)

You heard it here first, Lemmy is where the normies hang out.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Lemmy: Linux fan boys who will hear no wrong. Also the gays

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

🦀🦀$$11 a month🦀🦀

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Do you have a minute to talk about Linux? :)

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Lemmy is 1000% not for normies. Not yet, anyway.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

I'm not 100% sure what a normie even is, and I suspect there's a decent chance that makes me a normie.

And if yes.... we're heeeeeeeeerrrrre.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't want to gatekeep, but I'm really enjoying Lemmy without normies. It reminds me of the pre-2k internet. Nerds and weirdos just being themselves and celebrating each other's weirdness.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But how am I supposed to improve faking not being weird (for the outside world), if we all just let out the full weirdness here? ;)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

It's a trap. It's all a fucking trap. Next thing you know you'll be working middle management somewhere and sipping Moscato with boring-ass friends and living vicariously through posts by people half your age on niche boards who dedicate their house to model trains or polyamory or have a ridiculous aquarium or listen to bands you've never heard of in a genre you love but now you can't listen to any more because god forbid your boss gets in your car and you autoplay something other than pop country or classic rock. Your kids'll do something and you're like "that's awesome" and you look over and your partner is frowning at you like "aren't you going to do something to stop this?"

Just fucking be weird. Normalcy is a fucking trap.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

dedicate their house to model trains or polyamory

Uh... how are people doing this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I was just trying to grab a wide cross-section of interests. I don't have any advice for combining them, but good luck!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Been there, done that. Only thing I learned is that everyone has their kind of issues, and upper + top management has too many psychos. So thanks, I'll take your advice and will just be weird :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Lemmy isn't really microblogging though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

And tankies...

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mastodon/kbin: nerds, left-wingers and furries

Being a Mastodon user does not make me a nerd, left-winger furry.

I mean,

I am a left-winger furry nerd,

But not because I'm on Mastodon!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

something something correlation/causation

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I feel like at least 70% of the tweets I get on Bluesky's Discover page are from trans people.
I'm not complaining, it's just interesting.
I wonder if it's an algorithm thing (I follow some trans users) or if Bluesky is simply where they all fled to after the Muskening.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

i just wanna tell them, why not fediverse?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Twitter has an annoyingly persistent hold out crew of lefties and furries as well. Which is a shame, because its cutting into the Bluesky/Mastodon content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

where's parler and tumblr and pillowfort

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

kbin: centrists

mbin: centrists who like updates