Tumblr to join fediverse
-
No, tumblr is terrible in a 'hyperventilating gaslighting cliques of pretentious elitist malignant narcissists acting like cult leaders and followers' way.
-
@Whateley @FlashMobOfOne now expressing any kind of empathy = "white knighting"
-
( o )( . )
-
We're gonna need a blocking button.
-
That’s what I said, good, yes
-
Tumblr was a lot of fun. Yes it is a microblogging platform, but that doesn't explain what the appeal was. I have no idea what the appeal is today as I left in 2015.
People would share text or image or links of things they liked, and if you reblogged it (shared to your own blog) the comment you added would be retained when someone reblogged your reblog, creating lusicrous chains of conversations that people would build and build on. They evwntually became unreadable because they got squashed into one line. There was no way to comment without reblogging.
Tumblr predates influencer culture, and tumblr celebrities were not really a thing (except for maybe @pizza by accident being tagged everywhere).
You also had a tag system, where you added hashtags to reblogs that were searchable. This way you would find topics you liked, ans blogs.
The blogs had custom CSS, with graphics and music playing but less free for all than MySpace. This made some blogs into minor art pieces, along with the things they reblogged.
For me the initial appeal was high def images. Instagram had not taken off, and so finding consisten high quality images of art, nature, sub culture and pop culture imagery or artists, porn etc. was not as obvious as it is today.
I loved tumblr but eventually got bored. Eventually they killed custom CSS and porn, and basically made tumblr worthless for anyone who wasn't into fandoms (/s but kind of not. I have no idea what happens on tumblr today).
-
I've been on Tumblr since the David Karp days and I'll be there for the rest of my life.
-
That sounds like twitter with myspace
-
I have never gotten into twitter so I couldn't say, and I narrowly missed MySpace as well..
It was a lot of fun tho
-
some of us are already here :3
-
Or just don’t follow anyone there? Nobody is forcing you to read posts on any federated instance. I am shocked by the kind of egocentrism that leads you to think that if you don’t like people on a given instance, you should prevent everyone else on your instance from interacting with them.
-
Unfortunately ActivityPub does not work with static websites.
-
( • )( • )ԅ(‾⌣‾ԅ)
