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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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  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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[โ€“] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"email never throttled you"

Someone forgot about the good ol' days of spam? Chainmails? Viruses? Here's an example of a classic virus,

YOU HAVE NOW RECEIVED THE UNIX VIRUS

This virus works on the honor system:

If you're running a variant of Unix or Linux, please forward thismessage to everyone you know and delete a bunch of your files at random.

[โ€“] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

They used to make you pay $100/yr for an email address.

Not custom. Just an email address