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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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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 87 points 1 year 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

[–] CPMSP@midwest.social 78 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 71 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year 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.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 17 points 1 year 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.

[–] L4rr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year 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? ;)

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

dedicate their house to model trains or polyamory

Uh... how are people doing this?

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 3 points 1 year 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!

[–] L4rr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year 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 :)

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 9 points 1 year ago

Lemmy isn't really microblogging though.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

And tankies...

[–] callyral@pawb.social 39 points 1 year 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!

[–] drbluefall@toast.ooo 2 points 1 year ago

something something correlation/causation

[–] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year 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.

i just wanna tell them, why not fediverse?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year 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.

where's parler and tumblr and pillowfort

kbin: centrists

mbin: centrists who like updates