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

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oddly specific (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In this case the limit was entirely arbitrary.

The programmers were told to pick a limit and they liked 256. There are issues with having a large number of people in a group, but it wasn't a hardware limit for this particular case.

[–] Revan343 28 points 23 hours ago

But it's still not oddly specific, they picked a nice round number