#tumblr refugee

[lizzieonka]

Yet Another Tumblr Guide for New Users

Change your avatar, header, and put something on your description right now. Do not interact with any post before you do this. Otherwise, you’ll just be mistaken for a bot and blocked.

Post/Reblog stuff before following people. Even with your blog all customized, some people will still block you if they see your blog is empty.

Reblog, reblog, and reblog! Reblogs are not like quote retweets. Reblogging stuff is how Tumblr works, and reblogs actually help OP gain traction.

“Likes are useless” —You’ve probably seen a lot of guides preaching this, but actually that’s only some people’s opinions. People prefer reblogs over likes because it helps OP get more views/interaction on their posts, while likes are just—well, “likes.” It tells OP that you liked their post. Nothing bad with that. Some people also use likes to bookmark posts they want to find later. But if you want to support an artist, consider reblogging their work as well if you are able. If you don’t have enough spoons to use for reblogging, then that’s okay too.

Tags are for categorization, not clout. If you post about one thing but then tag it with irrelevant tags (especially those that happened to be trending), then people can report your post as spam. Here's a Guide to Tagging (edit coz I forgot to link this when I first published this post)

If you see something you don’t like, then just block the user. No need to rally people to cancel said user. Just block and move on.

Use Tag and Post Filters. It’s your responsibility to curate what you see on this site, so add as much filters as you want.

Spell out words. Do not say oomfs or moots. Say “just kidding” instead of “/jk”. Don’t censor triggering words like r@pe. For someone’s filters to work, the content being filtered has to be spelled right. By censoring your words, you’re putting people more at risk to seeing them. More about this on my Tumblr Posting Guide and Best Practices.

Turn off Best Stuff First. We hate algorithms here. Everyone views their dashboard in reverse chronological order.

Tumblr has post limits, but you rarely have to worry about them. I’m too lazy to grab links from the official docs for reference, so take this post limit screenshot (courtesy of XKit) instead. [Ignore the values under Remaining]

Edit: Okay, this is very important for Twitter refugees so I just had to include it:

When your post is reblogged by someone else, then you can no longer completely delete your post.

Unlike quote retweets, reblogs are forever. You may delete the original post, but you won’t be able to delete the reblogs of that post. They will continue to exist on other people’s blogs.

The best you can do to limit views on a post you want gone is to disable reblogs on said post before deleting it. That way, even if the reblogged version still exists, there’ll be no way to spread them further. Just make sure that you won’t regret it later.

Here’s an example of me doing exactly this on a post of mine that got over 10k notes.

#twitter #reddit #twitter refugee #tumblr refugee #reddit migration #twitter migration #tumblr #ID in alt #tumblr guide #miyamiwu.tut #miyamiwu.src

[silver-esq]

How does one gain followers on this god-forsaken app? Huh? Whaddya want? Memes? Commentary? Politics? Piss? What pleases you people?

#reddit migrants #reddit migration #reddit refugee #tumblr migration #tumblr refugee

[asexual-bastard]

I have a question for the Tumblr people who know these things,

Can I just post whenever I want? Or do I have to wait a while between posts?

#reddit refugee #reddit migrants #reddit blackout #reddit migration #tumblr refugee

[murphysletsdraw]

So re: tumblr maybe slowly getting abandoned: I won't leave tumblr until it actually implodes but you can follow me on patreon (for free too of course) and on pillowfort, bluesky, instagram, youtube, ko-fi... looking for people to follow on pillowfort especially! It seems most like my kind of thing

#tumblr refugee

[maskerdashery]

Me, emerging from 2014 for the tumblr revival

#tumblr #2014 tumblr #this is literally me stuck in a ball pit #dashcon #ball pit #I lost my phone in there #twitter #tumblr refugee #tumblr revival

[bauru21]

After years of being a nobody in Reddit, being a refugee in Tumblr is really weird. I'm trying to establish a profile, but I ain't got no original content for a profile picture, nor am I willing to just have a face reveal, at least not now. So, yeah, I got a random picture I like for a banner and a google image of the Black Parade skeleton dude, because that's the most "profile pictureable" thing I could find.

Also, trying to remember the people, oh my God, for years I just mindlessly upvoted stuff. Now, I have to activelly look at what I'm looking at and who I'm interacting with, because, apparently, Tumblr is all about the community you build.

So, yea, I'm lost lol. Thanks for reading this ramble

#reddit refugee #tumblr refugee #rambles

[omgitsaime]

Leaving Tumblr for Twitter following the NSFW ban only to come back to Tumblr after Elon Musk went out of his way to destroy the website is like when you're leaving for college and you feel emboldened enough to tell everyone to go fuck themselves, only to flunk out of college and be forced to move back home a few months later

#like it's embarrassing #twitter #tumblr migration #elon musk #rip twitter #reddit #196 #tumblr refugee #tumblr revival

[cowlickers]

Real honest to God question? Are we getting any refugees from reddit??

#reddit #tumblr refugee

[dumpsterfire-dweller]

IT IS TIME. FOR. A SEQUEL!!!!! TO MY FIRST. PROPER POST.

TYPES OF TUMBLR REFUGEES PART TWO ELECTRIC FUCKING BOOGALOO

Bababam... SO recap first wave(s) of refugees crawling to tumblr, the cockroach of websites, immortal as can be was from no other than the blue bird app after a certain E-boy (E-lon Musk) bought it and started just ruining it. But NOW BAM BACK TO THE FUTURE PRESENT reddit decided to do a little fucky wucky (its your ususal greedy company bs) that fucky wucky uppy being killing 3rd party apps which made user very mad and so maannnyy subreddits are going dark(aka privated temporarily or permanently) as a form of protest! Which we can safely assume will make redditors be without their subreddit and come scattering like mice towards the hellsite.. so lets add those rats to the list of TUMBLR REFUGEEESSSS

So no more rambling this is TYPES OF TUMBLR REFUGEES PART TWO ELECTRIC MOTHERFUCKING BOOGALOO

-twitter refugees who already had tumblr but never used it and came crrrrawwwling back once elon bought twitter.

-twitter refugees who still have hope that the blue bird app wont die.

-twitter refugees who are new to tumblr and came when twitter started burning down thanks to the muskrat .

-twitter refugees who are new and came right when elon threatened to buy twitter.

-REDDIT refugees most likely coming from the darkened subreddits thanks to the fuck up of the new API access policy.

#tumblr refugee #elon musk #thanks elon #elon twitter #reddit #3rd party app #hellsite #redditors #reditt

[avagarde]

You should follow my cohost in case this site gets fucked up in a way that xkit can't fix

I'm also gonna start backing up Mote there as well

#cohost #tumblr refugee

[goodlordmahtin]

Just had to block 10+ bots who've followed me within the past three days?? I'm new to tumblr - is this normal??

#tumblr refugee #agh #so many bots

[silver-esq]

Am I allowed to talk about fantasy football on this thing or do I gotta suppress that side of me now that I’m here?

#reddit refugee #tumblr refugee #reddit #tumblr migration #reddit migration #reddit migrants #I don’t know what I’m doing I’m just shouting into the void

[asexual-bastard]

I love the timeless nature of Tumblr

People reblog things whenever they see them and that means that posts continue to be seen and appreciated by people long after they are made.

It's a really refreshing change from reddit, where if your post doesn't reach Top of all time or r/All then it will completely fizzle out after 24, usually less hours. And then it just completely disappears like a drop in the ocean.

#reddit migration #reddit migrants #reddit refugee #reddit #tumblr refugee #reddit blackout

[ttrpgcafe]

Psa: if you're on the mobile app, you can drag the "post" button around and it's really cool! Try it!

#tumblr guide #tumblr beginners #twitter refugees #reddit refugee #tumblr refugee

[starfrog1]

New account very very swag! :)

#new account #tumblr refugee

[v-gennnnnnn]

i did it. i finally got tumblr. might not interact much but at least i'll actually see some artist credit on here (unlike pinterest, i hope). anyways somebody please give me advice i feel like a preschooler about to piss myself meeting other people for the first time

#tumblr etiquette #tumblr noob #tumblr refugee