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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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Why does my treadmill want my email address? (lemmy.world)
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[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Then: Don't trust everything you read on the internet, and Wikipedia isn't legitimate because anyone can edit it

Now: Some loud moron on Youtube told me a thing and I believe it 100%.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Then: people on the internet were mostly technically adept and creating webpages because they enjoyed them.

Now: people on the internet are mostly ad tech attention economy scams and creating LLM spam blogs for PPC revenue.

It's just easier now for a conspiracy loon to find something that matches their preconceived biases.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

It really sucks now for product comparisons. It used to be the you could look up productA vs productB and get an enthusiast going on about them, now it's purely AI generated crap.