#DONT USE TUMBLR LIKE YOU WOULD USE TWITTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[spaciebabie]

please dont use tumblr the way you would use twitter god im begging

#PLEASE #HAVE MERCY #spacie spoinks #VERTICAL ELLIPSES B4 YOU PUT YOUR SPOILERS??????????? #NO TAG????????????????????????? #BRO!!!!!!!!!!!! PUT IT UNDER READ MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TA DO SCROLL PAST IT REALLY FAST???????????????????????? #PLEAAAAAAAAAAAASE GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD #DONT USE TUMBLR LIKE YOU WOULD USE TWITTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ghostespresso]

staff logging on to tumblr dot com today

#staff sweetie i Promise you an algorithm would kill this webbed site #changing the way reblogs look/work would Absolutely kill this webbed site too #this is a Blogging Platform i dont want it to be like tiktok or twitter jesus #if you NEED to change something literally listen to the the Tumblr Users you pretend you cant hear #if money is what you need make your userbase Happy and you should be fine #the shop is fine blaze posts are fine ad free subscriptions are fine but dont get rid of shit that Works For You in favor of making money #someone really laced up their clown boots today im. so tired staff please dont #tumblr staff #EDIT: staff updated their original post to say we were all misunderstanding but #that doesnt stop the post from being stupid #the whole post was worded for Investors and then presented to the userbase #if you say 'we have big changes planned!' and dont put in the 'as options' its Your Fault that people read it as 'were changing everything' #staff isnt stupid. they know how they Should have worded it better than what they did #so yeah. someone Did lace up their clown boots before they hit post #edit pt 2 lol for the record i dont think tumblr would actually go through with all their changes in that post #they know how the userbase is and there are A Lot of us #i just dont like how? idk. condescending? the post sounded #and out of every place on the internet being being burned alive in the name of money #tumblr is the one place i know enough about to be Actually mad at lol #ive really liked some stuff staff has done in recent years #but talking to your userbase that way wasnt one

[eclipsesalign]

“Oh we’re a new and awesome website for hosting your art!”

Cool, can I register?

“Oh no not right now.”

Are there registration windows? Or codes?

“We open 10 registration slots every 8 hours :]”

What

“Yeah and the second it opens all the slots fill up immediately. Sorry, need to wait another 8 hours I guess.”

#i dont even care if the website is like shoddy or im not gonna use it eventually i just #WHY WOULD YOU DO IT LIKE THAT #Why am I fighting for my life to get into this thing surey your servers arent that at risk of being overloaded #or surely theres a less obtuse way to do this #a waitlist would be greaaaat #god i just wanted a better way to archive my art besides tumblr #AND SOMETHING THATS NOT ONE OF THOSE SHITTY TWITTER REPLACEMENTS #you cannot pay me to use bluesky (for now) #i simply will not

[jattendschaton]

Genuinely, where are ML people congregating these days. None of the Discord servers I'm in are super active anymore and I barely see people in them posting about new episodes/specials and definitely not as they're airing. Where is the new episode camaraderie

There used to be so many active Discord servers and groups on Tumblr/Instagram who talked about where to find links for whatever was coming out and livestreamed episodes themselves and went crazy while watching them all together and I can't tell if this is something that has gone by the wayside fandom-wide or if I am a loser who just isn't invited to be part of these things

#miraculous ladybug #honestly ml is a pretty interesting case study #I've been here since 2015 so like right at the beginning and it was easier to watch livestreamed episodes then than it is now #people are very cagey about links and wont give them out anymore #when it used to be very celebratory to share links and people would like. bond in livestream chats #god do people even remember le ranch. do people even know how watching that before episodes came out changed us #people dont even talk about new episode links until like. an hour before the episode comes out #so youre kind of sol if you dont live in a convenient timezone #and this is probably due to a whole number of things. ml getting more popular so people realized #they could make money off of livestreaming it #and then going after all other livestreams to get them taken down so we all had to use to same one site (miraculous.to) #disney taking over and getting real strict about their content takedowns #twitter going to hell. instagram getting worse. people leaving tumblr in 2018. #brand ambassadors changing how they interacted with fandom. fandom getting a lot bigger #so everything got a lot more spread out with more cliques and groups completely separated/unaware of each other #people who did a lot of the legwork leaving fandom and not explaining to anyone how to do what they used to #popular hosting sites getting taken down #etc etc etc

[saltynsassy31]

See this? This is what not to do during a splatfest

This is the exact type of people that make splatfests not fun :/

Like, I wouldn't even care if we lost if people didn't make stuff like this, act like they're better and all that, it's devastating that people will do this

Every spaltfest I fear of people like this and they always resurface from the depth of hell to torment the poor people, and then they ask why we are upset about a "silly squid game" like they aren't the ones actively causing the rage

#salty rants #like seriously #i wish people like this would just vanish and let us enjoy the game #altho ive seen more toxic stuff on twitter #like always #tumblr has its faid share #which is a shame #but its easier to dodge #i simply just blocked them and i also dont wanna show their user bame #like i dont have a big influence but putting them on blast is not my intention and i dont wanna single them out #im just showing one example of stuff ive been seeing every splatfest #if you come across this posr just block please for the love of cod TwT #splatoon 3 #splatoon #splatfest #vanilla vs strawberry vs mint chip

[tiercel]

Tumblr talking about making its site the same algorithmic slop pile as every other social media bc the users migrating here are too soft brained to curate their own feeds

#You dont understand tumblr is the only site that im able to use bc its not algorithmic slop #I can barely use youtube anymore bc i will get trapped in the vortex of shorts and suggested videos #I like tumblr bc unlike instagram twitter etc it allows you to create your own feed rather than force feeding you random posts #But lately it HAS been doing that & staff just released a statement basically amounting to ''new users are too confused so we're gonna pad #everything out'' corpspeak for ''we need to make the twitter refugees feel more at home by copying their dogshit falling apart site'' #Tbh i actually enjoy tumblr as a much more niche site i think that by making other ppl realize its just a regular ass blogging site theyre #gonna clog it all up more than it already is. Not like it isnt already crammed to the gills with reactionary assholes #Like the reasons i stopped going to twitter was A. stupid bullshit like locking me out 4 no phone number and B. people driving me insane #I do NOT need the people that would trigger my mental illness on a nightly basis coming here to spread their spores #Namely the dramabrained weirdos looking for problems in everything and reactionaries that already exist here but will proliferate #Tumblr ALREADY isnt doing jackshit about t€rves or fash why the fuck would they do anything about a massive influx of them #Sorry i needed to bitch a little. Love this site but also hate the web3.0 philosophy of dumbing everything down #When are we crawling back into the primordial sea we came from (neocities and forums) #emf

[risingsunresistance]

if twitter keeps going as downhill as it is i'm gonna end up A LOT more active here. at this rate i'm gonna lose my private account bc the site is genuinely unusable now

#tumblr officially better bc OUR POLLS DONT COST MONEY- #THERE IS NO WORLD IN WHICH I WOULD PAY TO USE THE BASIC FUNCTIONS OF A SOCIAL MEDIA APP #all his fanboys replying to everyone with a $7 thinking rhey're being cute MF I NEED TO EAT #IM A COLLEGE STUDENT #YOU AREN'T *WORTH* $7 #$7 GETS ME A DOMINOS PIZZA THAT LASTS ME LIKE 3 DAYS. YOU GET ME MORE AI ADS AND SCAM MESSAGES #ugh i hope they all kill themselves amen #see i can say that on here. on twitter i'd get banned AND lose my $7 #chat

[raeygina-george]

Tumblr is so mean to me

#raey spam #something something watching the site fucking destroy itself #it's straight up just Not showing one of my mutual's posts on the dashboard despite us being! mutuals! #then the gross ass twitter layout #the userbase shifting almost entirely to liking instead of reblogging #random ass people finding random ass reblogs of mine #like go reblog from op or people you actually follow 😭😭😭😭😭 how the fuck did you even find that 😭😭😭😭😭 #and. tumblr live #don't get me wrong i still love tumblr but. :( #im mostly just confused at why it's not showing my mutual's posts #they can't see my posts andi can't see theirs and it doesn't make any sense #only reason i could possibly think of is because i blocked them on accident like a month ago but i dont? get why that would make this happen #anyways omori magical girl update i have run into a roadblock #which is that i am struggling to write the story #and that means i can't make any art for it bc i quite frankly have no idea what the fuck kind of worldbuilding there is #atp i think i might just drop the story part & just draw some fun stuff #then maybe i can come back to the story later if i feel like it #bc this wasn't intended to be a fullblown novel it was just. hehe magical girls

[spaciebabie]

"but spacie, i have no followers why should i reblog things" let me answer this question using myself, a person who has been using tumblr for almost a decade now, as an example. pre 2022 the most followers i ever had was like 125. most of them were dead blogs. killed in the porn ban or just people who had left for whatever reason. out of the people left who were still active, i had like 3 people at the most interact with my blog on a monthly basis. for years b4 this, i had ZERO FOLLOWERS but upon making my blog i saw all the other ppl who had been using this website longer than me talking abt how important it was ta reblog shit, and throughout all these years on tumblr, even when i had no followers i reblogged things. b/c i understood that it was integral ta the way this site functions.

now mind you, just b/c i had no followers didn't mean ppl wouldn't stop by and reblog things from my blog. every couple months id have a new person find me and reblog something. maybe they'd reblog a lot of stuff! the point is that id go months without any interaction at times and i STILL reblogged things because i knew people could find me and see something they liked on here. eventually people who frequently checked my blog ta see what i would reblog followed me!! im sure there’s ppl who dont follow me that ta this day who still reblog the stuff on here!! the point is that it genuinely doesnt matter how many followers you have. sure, it certainly helps, but ppl can still find and interact with the things on your blog without you having thousands or even hundreds of followers. so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE reblog things.

#spacie spoinks #i keep seeing this mentality and guys its genuinely harmful ta the site pls 😭 #tumblr is not a popularity contest your reblog MATTERS!!!!!!!!!! #a lot of the problems we've seen in recent years with reblogging is b/c yall are using tumblr like you would use instagram or twitter #please dont use tumblr like that #also scoop the rot out of your brain that says if you interact too much with your favorite blog on here they're going 2 hate you #if high school was an internet website it would be twitter (derogatory) #i wont hate you if you're constantly sendin me asks or messages i can just. distance myself. #if i get overwhelmed #im not tethered ta tumblr as if it was my only lifeline skjfsakjlfjkads #like there are so many ways ta customize my experience on here its chill

[carcinized]

i have srsly had irl queer people make fun of me for being queer + liking sports and tell me that is like, not gay or something. like ok just say youre chronically online. womens soccer is the queerest thing i have ever been a part of hands down. also youre an awful person

#tobin talks #ITS ABSURD. HOW CAN YOU BE THAT MEAN #this was when i was 15 so maybe thats why. but like..... its so awful. like 15 yo's always gonna act like that #but come on. lots of us online are older than that. we could be better and NOT teach this behavior to 15 yo's #because you know they learned this shit online. the specific person who did this to me was most active on tumblr. #not even tiktok or twitter this was a tumblr gay. begging you guys to change the culture 😭😭 #this goes for more than just sports obvs its about general pushing stereotypes #which is how you get queer people sacrificing parts of their identity in order to be accepted into the community #as opposed to sacrificing the queer parts of their identity to be accepted into queerphobic communities? #like tell me how thats morally sound. accept ppl as they are and not just for things theyre systemically discriminated for?? #be a nice fucking human being?? #the queer community can tear each other apart lately i wish we would go back to the pure love of it all #bc like for me it is not worth it to be close with most queer people anymore. my friends are mostly all cishet #because guess what even though they dont understand my queer identity at least theyre not assholes about my entire personality otherwise #its so awful Like. can we all agree to not be cliquey #you dont have to be a paletable aesthetic gay. you dont have to be chonrically online and never go outside. you dont have to not drive #you dont have to be bad at math. what other fucking stereotypes are there man #its so fucking stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!! like 'let people enjoy things' goes for all things not just online stuff like this is a two way street #yes non online/gay/neurodivergent people should be kinder about 'cringe' interests. but hey that doesnt mean we get to be dicks to people #with more common interests or like... idk man im talking in circles here. but god when did the lgbtq+ community turn into a clique #do this do that if you dont we'll ignore that part of you or actively make fun of you for it. #STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 #non rebloggable im just ranting here this is not one to rb. but like. ITS SO AWFUL AND MEAN. STOP

[wainswright]

This is my googled 30 min research so i'm just guessing for fun.

Looks like either you need to be a hip place that attracts so many new users (makes a splash in numbers for investors?) and get good press as THE place to be in order to attract advertiser dollars OR

Make your core usability lock behind a paywall like spotify, which is cashflow positive, but can't tell if this worked out for medium (probably not)- (and looks like Substack isn't doing too well) This focuses less on advertisers and more on users.

Alternatives? Monetizing content + ads on selected produced articles? That's a niche that isn't filled.

You know there's this whole style of paying for webnovels in China or something, like if they didn't ruin the concept of wattpad by viewing users... like that, instead of treating them like content creators a la Youtube. Which looks like it's going strong.

In lieu of nonprofit, I guess you'd have to get a community of people producing good content that the site made a no brainer to use- and a kind of distributive ad process like uh... tiktok.... hm..... untargeted is that big of a deal? But it'd take advantage of the tumblr social pathways- the ability to monetize a post if you chose. Can't remember much about post+ but that came out of nowhere... I don't remember having any idea how to use it. I hope it was something like- you can choose to monetize certain posts behind a paywall? That's the only way you could do it, right?

Fanfic concerns: nobody on youtube worries about this when making videos about established properties tbh. I guess don't write fanfic specifically and put that behind a paywall (or do and see where this leads us) but fanart is free game? How confusing. Home of fandom could be like.... reviewers.... taste makers..... god tumblr actually IS good at stealth word of mouth marketing for a lot of properties. Very funny.

But if I was thinking informational- or like "how to recognize chords", or news feed that would be an idea I didn't even think of when post+ in it's unclear use state came out.

Okay, maybe that wouldn't work- we come here to shitpost. Maybe you could have the option of making a goodpost blog (original posts only) behind a paywall. But a general fee, like spotify charges $5 for access to all songs, instead for monthly access to paywalled content? The response would be a little different now, I'd imagine.

Both options, as well as an option to see blogs more automatically as the constructed sites and not just on the dash like squarespace? that's doing well, though I've seen random complaints about the nature of the not-html style site constructions. Complexity was mentioned as part of the issue retaining users along with lack of immediate interaction/reason to stay, but showing off various blogs as their own sites and then letting you follow the author of the blogs on the dash seem like it'd work out..........

It retains the free functionality but the alternative would be presented as a sidegig.

Chaotic patreon.....Patreon and Reddit are private, with Reddit maybe having an IPO by the end of 2023, so I'll assume they aren't doing super great. Tumblr up for IPO soon?

Best case scenario for site survival: it's sold to huge company that can eat the cost of operations until the site is made hip to advertisers, or shrug.

But there really isnt a good microblogging site- that allows all the ability to make a searchable blog..... (I see maybe they were thinking they could just use the social part of tumblr and somehow get wordpress to show up on the rss feeds) but yeah there's not really any social capacity baked into to wordpress, on lj I would go over to see what people were doing for that day and read their comments. That site does live on in spirit in dreamwidth

Bluesky and mastodon have that character limit and you can't format anything, but if they get successful they can rake in ad money. I don't know about this. Can't even remember what pillowfort is like but I remember there was some weirdness with the founders that scared me off, I didn't think it was going to last well.

#i still think tumblr has good concept #if you did a call out to specifically the fanartists as a place to centralize commissions #writers to centralize their reporting skills #but tumblr already has this inbaked communication that other sites dont #the stuff that actually lets you network articles #i think some kind of vague patreon like deal wouldn't be bad #ideally advertiser money would make up the difference but it seems we have. a marketability problem? which is weird #we're like instagram to the left #twitter is just takes its so boring to me! #and neocities is all well and good but what about fandom eh #back to the forums with ye? #ok: fandom reaction would be a nonprofit clone but hm.................... social huh #me blinking at the news facebook is doing so well i genuinely dont know people who network there? linkedin makes sense #facebook is where i keep track of people i meet but i did use to use it like tumblr until parents arrived #so wordpress cant be doing well either #forgot about cohost

[britneyshakespeare]

i listened to the fall out boy version of we didn’t start the first (listing 1989-2023 world events) and can i just say. first of all the original song is silly and not that deep in its commentary but at least it was like an original idea. there’s a reason your 11th grade history teacher played it in your class in the cold war unit, right? it sets a scene and a mood without even having to do anything but listing a bunch of pop culture and political iconography. but there’s also like, a sequence of events. fob’s really just throws events and names of things together sloppily in no particular order other than if they kinda rhyme. it has a lot less impact when thinking about the recent historical or present moment bc it’s just like “thing you remember, other thing you remember, other thing you remember” but from one object to the next they have no particular connection to each other in space or time. it’s poorly associated. 

#i'm not a huge fan of the original but i do like billy joel as a songwriter... though we didn't start the fire is not his best #it's fine. it's got a point but not a very deep one. #it's more just like an *interesting* song to *think* about and feel #that's kinda why remaking it is also weird in the first place? make your own song about recent history #bc there's actually SO LITTLE said in the original we didn't start the fire. the only commentary is in the chorus and it's not that deep #i'm not mad that it exists but it's kinda like. why #idk this is some shit pete wentz would find deep and powerful that's all i can say #text post #sorry fob fans if you find this text post bc i'm not censoring the band's name. we used to have a tumblr tagging system #that was great where i could simply not tag the name of your favorite band and you wouldn't find it in a search but now tumblr's broken #im not here to start drama ive actually liked a lot of fall out boy's music in my life i'm just not impressed by their new stuff #but by the looks of it neither are a lot of you so. idk i come in peace. #leave me alone don't send me hate #(idk if tumblr fob fans would do that but ive had twitter fob fans come at me for saying slightly critical things) #(that's why i dont use twitter anymore among several other great reasons)

[toonbly]

other social media sites not having a queue/scheduling function Will be the death of me.

#i wanna post outside of tumblr more just bc its generally good for getting eyes on ur art and i would like to like #be a full time freelancer one day #but i hate actually using shit like instagram and twitter or w/e so like HJKFHKJFHDSF #ik social media schedulers exist but i cant find any good ones that dont cost 700 fucking dollars HJFHSDKJHFKSDF #if you have recommendations hmu i guess? but. point is we live in a social media hellscape for artists and its making me pull my hair out

[bunnyb34r]

Lmao why was my 50 year old coworker buddy SO suprised that I dont use Facebook agdgdgdggd she was trying to tell me about something she bought [relative coworker] and I guess it was from a post they both shared and I was like "I'm not on Facebook but go on"

And she was SHOCKED sggdgdgd like I only know of like two people my age who still actively use it, everyone else is on like twitter or tik tok now sffsfs

#marquilla #it's like yeah if you sent me a friend request im not ignoring you i just havent logged in for years and i dont confidently remember my #password so my only way to get back in would be if im by some miracle still logged in on my laptop but i doubt it #not like id want to go back to that hell hole like fb and twitter actively give me damage mentally sgdgdgd #besides tumblr i only use instagram but thats maybe an hour a week tops #''well what do you do on your phone then??'' play stupid gacha games for free agdgdgdggdgd

[luckyemo]

do people know what extension and what setting hides pinned blog posts lmao

#i have both xkit and tumblr savior and like am Just realizing one of them has an auto turned on setting that hides pinned blog posts #lmao @ me the past weeks being like Why do so many blogs say read my pinned but then Dont have a pinned oops #i just thought ppl deleted their pinned wout updating their description or something #im assuming its tumblr savior bc that one also auto has reblog headers turned off so you dont see the name+icon of ppl who commented #so it looks like one long post of someone talking to themself and that was annoying af until i realized #but also tumblr saviour has like 4 settings and none of them are for pinned so ive been looking thru xkit and??? nothing #like my best guess is pinned posts gets considered to be 'promoted' or an ad or something like that which like?? why #why do ppl even use posts for their abouts instead of pages like posts can be filtered out by extensions unintentionally like this #and also be filtered out intentionally with blacklists? esp bc with these pinned abouts ppl put like about byf and blacklists all on them #so like i just feel like the likelihood of someones pinned post containing a blacklisted word of someone who would be in their tumblr #orbit is like extremely high? like if youre into the same stuff its likely youre also not into the same stuff so like wyd for when like #like for example you have the word radfems blacklisted and your friend has no radfems in their byf -> u cant see your friends pinned #i am really really not sure why external about/link pages or pinned about posts are even used here this isnt twitter????????????? #tumblr has its own built in pages?????????????????????????????????????????? #????? #??????????????????????????????????? #anyways lol if u know how to see pinned posts containing words yr not blacklisting lmk

[cv01doodle]

waow getting more notifs than usual you guys really DID move here

#stfu #elon taking my behated twitter dot com away from us…. cry cry sob sob weep weep #cant say i completely love tumblr tho its broken asf #twitter was broken as well tho #i dont like using insta bcuz too much of my irls found me 🥲 #and im too socially inept to use discord often #would you guys be sad if i just quit the internet 😅