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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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[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Not everyone had a good Internet connection or even a computer during those times. We would still go use the library computers and sit next to each other because they had broadband and I only had dialup and my friends didn't have a PC at all.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not everyone has a good internet connection now. Much of rural America still awaits high-speed internet connectivity

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I'm talking about dialup

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, and I was behind the times.