#new social media sites

[ivytea]

goldfish orchid tea

#its tea times #whimsigoth #goblincore #cottagecore #goldfish #artists on tumblr #illustration #starting off the new year with clown roleplay uploading the wrong file versions onto the two social media sites that don't allow img edits

[darkwood-sleddog]

once again i am asking tumblr to hold public polls for users to vote on potential changes. imagine if you were the 'respect our users opinion website'. like that could be us but apparently not.

#not dogs #tumblr #not all change is bad but i think the new desktop changes are actually terrible? #i want less clutter not more #staff SAYS they want to give us options #okay so develop some options and have us vote for them before release #as an actual real life election official i want this #bc i think most physical changes to websites are entirely useless and redundant #also why would you copy a social media site that is FAILING #@staff you made polls. please fucking use them #and release the results publicaly i swear to fuck #like if you want users to spend money on this website you kinda need to uh. listen to them? #i also think TELLING people they are testing a new feature that may or may not be permanent would be good #so that people don't come in to change they think is potentially permanent #not that i think the desktop stuff isn't going to be #tumblr has shown time and time again that they value only new users coming in from twitter

[pillowfort-social]

End Of Year Fundraiser Update

Hey everyone! Thanks to your amazing support, we are already 79% of the way towards our fundraising goal of bringing in $25,000 by Dec 31st. We can’t express our thanks enough. Today we have more information for you all about the rewards we will be giving out for the success of this fundraiser:

INDIVIDUAL USER REWARDS Funding Badges - Every Pillowfort user who donates or is subscribed to Pillowfort Premium duringthe timeframe of Nov 1st, 2023 to December 31, 2023 will receive a limited edition badge for helping to keep the lights on. We’ll have a form available soon for gifting these badges to other users who can’t donate to us directly. Stay tuned to this space. 

Invitation Rewards - This year we are also offering limited edition badges for users who help grow our Community. Every user who invites 25 or more new users between Nov 1 and Dec 31 will receive a limited edition badge. You can generate invitation links here.  In order to facilitate this we’ve increased the number of invites each user can generate per week to 50!

REWARDS FOR ALL USERS If we hit 100% of our goal by Dec 31st, we will release a new site theme and a new avatar frame for all users in the first quarter of 2024! Details on both of these TBA– let us know if you have any suggestions/requests for what you’d like to see!

Thanks again for all your support, we couldn't do any of this without you!

Best, Staff

#pillowfort #pillowfort.social #pifo #end of year fundraiser #rewards #badges #new site theme #goals #social media #thank you

[baker-streets-violin]

re: that last post i reblogged:

"modern watson would be a blogger!" outdated. modern watson would be an accidental tiktok influencer.

#come with me and share this vision: watson; depressed; in his 20s. spends his days miserably and endlessly scrolling through social media #especially tiktok because like have you seen what that site does to people. moves in with new rommate. new rommate is an enchanting weirdo. #watson with nothing better to do starts making content about his new rommate who can deduce all sorts of wild shit through little details #hes not too worried about letting personal details because he figures nobody will really see it and hes just incredibly enamoured with #holmes' eccentricities. his videos proceed to go viral. watson has now become an influencer. holmes does not have social media except MAYBE #an old tumblr account so hes not aware enough of whats going on to be really worried about it but he does know enough #about tiktok to go hm. i will amuse you watson because it makes you happy. but i will not like it. #violin.txt

[lesbianchemicalplant]

at least cohost isn't a facebook product or backed by the original founder of twitter

#it does have some issues but of the current ''woag new social media site'' wave it's (1) the most tumblr-like (2) looks the most promising

[that-one-ao3-writer]

I didnt expect this meme to make a comeback this soon

#why cant yall accept that tumblr is different from other social media sites #algorithm has made yall fucking lazy #tumblr #tumblr culture #buddy daddies #buddy daddies sad news meme

[vimbry]

omg wait yeah a notif tag about the "isopods are cringe" thing just reminded me: you ever see that post on here with an addition where someone shyly tagged it with, "I know possums are "out" but-" what do you mean out they're an animal 😭 don't let people who twist themselves up trying to be unauthentically different to stay on trend make you insecure, none of this matters

#I think a problem this site has is that #despite people who move exclusively in circles of adults insisting this place has no children on it #it absolutely does. social media/blogging platforms have a Huge youth userbase #and sometimes one of those users - still self-conscious about their place in the world #because they're still in a judgemental school environment and that's how people act - will post something like #''lmao ok can we all admit now that [x] was never good'' #then it gains traction around all ages. and people who should really know better start going... is this cringe? #oh no I don't want to be cringe! I'd better move onto this new trend instead! #without registering that this is the opinion of a 14-year-old who had a bad day that broke containment #now if this mentality actually originates from an adult that's. embarrassing lmao #(slightly older adults. 20-21 is still acceptable to be a bit like this) #but you shouldn't care about their opinion either. it's exhausting to be someone with an outlook like theirs

[nipuni]

Does anyone happen to have a spare Bluesky invite code? 😥

#I think most people are going there? #I don't know where to go there are so many new sites coming up all the time #I already struggle keeping up with the ones I have 😭 #I'm not very good at social media and it scares me how important is has become 🥲 #personal

[lovelyrainbowkitsune]

Idk is it weird to actually sort of miss 2013 Tumblr? It was ‘cringe’ and had some awful moments/experiences sure… but a lot of that early to mid 2010s genuine goofiness is what partially got me through high school when I was at my worst. The internet was considered a place to escape reality for a little while. Roleplaying. Ask games and blogs. Calling each other by our usernames. The follow for follow technique. Hipster vs fandom being the only main discourse topic. Getting into interests and memes that were essentially nonrelevant irl. I don’t think I would like to fully go back. Nonetheless, it still comforts me knowing that the earlier community gave me a space to exist.

#i think one of the traditions in tact is finding news in an unconventional way #and seeing memes before they become popular on other social media sites #old tumblr #2013 tumblr #fandom culture #rainbow ramblings

[biblicalhorror]

So I just looked into that top 50 celebrities list put out by myclimate.org and they say that they "only use data that celebrities themselves publish," meaning that someone being tagged in a post in one area of the world and then the next day posting in another area is how they calculate mileage and emissions. It seems like a pretty glaring data flaw when Taylor obviously isn't going around posting her location or having people tag her in things most of the time, idk. I agree that there's a lot of undue focus being put on Taylor, specifically, when clearly it's a more widespread celebrity problem, but it feels like misinformation to me to be using that study as a gotcha.

#its somewhat unclear how theyre collecting this data but it really doesnt seem like they're using anything other than social media #so no news sources or gossip sites or anything like that which would be posting taylors location consistently #it also does say tags count but like how does that even work when fans tag celebrities in unrelated posts all the time? #does it have to be a tag from a mutual or something? #anyway this data is bad and doesnt actually help taylors cause im sorry to say #it also says the no 1 polluter is travis scott with 6 million kg in 2023 compared to taylor swifts 8.2 million in 2022 #which is data from before the eras tour even started so 2023 has gotta be way higher than that #taylor swift

[tmmyhug]

every time im on twitter im like wow this sucks so bad

#this isn’t news or anything it just baffles me #the foremost social media site. where people get their news and put their entire careers and spend hours and hours #and it sucks. it’s horrible. even before musk #ok going to bed byebye #vees train of thought

[kiddokori]

me: yeah im not leaving tumblr unless something drastic happens im stuck here lol

tumblr literally two days later: what if we start ruthlessly harassing trans women. and also sell your data to ai. lol

#i understand the harassment is not a new thing #but this latest kerfuffle is definitely leaving a bad taste in my mouth #i do not want to try using some new site with zero history #like the fun of social media/the internet is that it connects to so many people #you see so much different stuff and so many different people can interact with Your stuff #a small up and coming site is not going to have that universality #i dont care to post stuff so much as i enjoy engaging with groups of people #i dont wanna lose that aspect #i am not going to twitter tho ill start posting on neopets before i go to the fucking bird #head in my hands i just wanna be silly online

[adhdandcomics]

working on building a brand new shiny blog website for comics and such (in addition to here) so folks can see all my stuff in the same place! and hopefully can have little forums and comments and a fun community on there. maybe a shop.. who knows

#does anyone have any advice for coding a blogspot? i can’t uh. figure out how to set up forums #but it’s going well so far! #this is actually not related at all to the tumblr updates. you won’t get me to leave here lmao. #but i want to have another special little blog just for all my stuff so i don’t have to do the same sorts of social media junk with it #and can have my own site #i will share it soon !! once i have a few more things working #new name and everything!!! #updates

[aquarian-airhead]

"There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content," he says, as we're entering an era where the options for adult content hosting are dwindling drastically and corporate-enforced censorship runs rampant, tearing online communities to the ground.

#internet sanitization #purity culture #the internet #internet culture #tumblr #artists on tumblr #anti censorship #femgaze #freedom of artistic expression #freedom of expression #freedom of art #freedom of fiction #censorship doesn't have to be state-enforced in order to qualify as such #it can be perpetuated by any entity in power over its audiences or userbase #and the internet + social media is the new public space. we depend on it like the town square of the old. #“creating a more welcoming positive-” my a$$ #this phenomenon strictly hurts women and the Queer #the sites that host actually harmful material for cishet men to view are largely unaffected #while artists and their communities suffer

[ask-cueball]

...so. Tumblr's gone through a lot the past week or two, huh..?

With this new update, I...don't think I feel comfortable posting Ask Cueball to Tumblr anymore. I've already switched all the toggles to opt-out of them selling my work to the AI companies, but I also know from here that they've already compiled and sent the data, including things that should never have been sent like post drafts, private posts, and all the unanswered asks that you all have sent in. My work, and your work, is already in the hands of the AI companies, without our consent. And most of my work is old enough that Glaze didn't even exist yet, so of course there was no protection on it when the data was compiled. Plus, you can't Glaze text.

...I haven't decided where I'm moving yet. I'll let you all know once I figure it out, and I won't delete anything here until I've relocated, so you'll still be able to read the comic. But between the AI stuff and the recent public treatment of trans people on this site, I don't want to host my art here anymore, not like this. As of right now, I'm considering a Cohost and/or a Neocities site, and am looking out for other options as well. The Ask Cueball Discord is remaining active and you're always welcome to join (it's been pretty quiet since the blog's also been pretty quiet, but I am active on Discord all the time so if you show up I'll be there!) And while it's not Ask Cueball related, or a social site at all, I do have an ArtFight as well.

Sorry to give you guys an update like this, I know you'd rather be seeing some funny shape robots by now. Hope you all understand, and hopefully it won't be too long until we find a place better suited for us.

#ask cueball #behind the bots #ooc #important #blog updates #orbot and cubot #sonic the hedgehog #ill let you all know as soon as i have a new place to post #im willing to hear suggestions on new places to host my comic #as well as new social media sites in general #fuck ai

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

For anyone annoyed by the Tumblr changes, if you're on desktop I would recommend using XKit Rewritten (and New XKit for any other odd changes you'd like to try out, including even older aspects of Tumblr). It's the older version of Rewritten but most of the extensions on it are still supported/do work). I can't guarantee they'll definitely make a fix for it/a direct fix for this particular UI change, but it's possible that they might since they usually make extensions that allow you to essentially revert changes made to the UI. Other various UI extensions (such as old ones from Tumblr's past UIs that the extensions basically just revert you to) may also help fix up your UI.

As you might expect these extensions need to be on to work/revert the appearance of the UI (so if you turn them off you'll revert to the current state of Tumblr), but while they are on you can curate your UI to look how you want it. This goes for both New XKit and XKit Rewritten. I use both and I couldn't live without them lol. You can get some big oldies of Tumblr's, like classic search on Rewritten or the Tweaks extension (full of various UI tweaks) on New XKit (including the old shade of blue Tumblr used a long time ago that I never stopped using!).

Unfortunately I don't know of any solution for mobile if it affects mobile at any point (or if it already has), but whenever you're on desktop, I would definitely recommend both these versions of XKit. I have so many extensions from them that I often don't even realize when there are UI changes (remember how Tumblr added themes for your dashboard? I didn't even notice for the longest time because I've had New XKit on the whole time) because Tumblr's default coding is overwritten by the extensions I have on.

#DCB Comments #literally like when was the last time I was bothered/affected by a big UI change #idk bc I always have XKit on lol fhjaghjfg like half the time I don't even notice there was a change #atm I can't tell if I just haven't been hit by the change yet or if all the extensions I'm using are preventing it #bc I use a LOT of old interface extensions so in a sense I'm using an older version/look to Tumblr #I also heard a techbro runs Tumblr now so don't be surprised that this site is going to #end up looking like a Twitter clone. techbros want all social media to look exactly identical #while still claiming to want to one up each other and act like they have the bigger/better company #like nah bruh y'all're the same and y'all're shit #as much as I still hope Tumblr doesn't fall into that I feel like it will unless someone else runs Tumblr soon :'( #like buddy I don't use Twitter much at all anymore for a reason. well a lot of reasons #anyway get New XKit for lots of OLDER older Tumblr stuff and Rewritten for newer stuff/updated New XKit stuff #New XKit still works fine it's just that they made a newer/more improved version of New #if you've never used XKit make sure to use NEW and REWRITTEN tho #the original XKit is probably no longer functional and I don't even know if it's still on the app stores #last I knew of it most of its extensions were so outdated that they broke a long time ago #but you can use both of the newer ones together actively and it works amazingly