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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.

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[–] Kepion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 67 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just make sure you avoid getting in trouble by using the facebook strategy of downloading so much that they shrug their shoulders instead of prosecuting

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 3 points 16 hours ago

The guy who started doing this (downloading academic articles and making them freely available en mass) was actually driven to suicide by a court case, so be careful with that.

While he was alive tho, Aaron Schwartz was one cool dude.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Only works if you have a billion dollars though. If you do it on a big scale, they're just going to Aaron Swartz you.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 21 hours ago

Hmm, good point.. Could you lend me a billion dollars? I have some downloading to do!