Hey, its form folllows function to the teary end!

I "like" the genuine posts about how it's impossible to leave the platform because of careers and also it's difficult to participate on the platform because it's a cesspool.

yo this was good.

Definitely 90% of the abuse you hear about on Tumblr is fandom related.

Reading this is pretty curious because I sorta drifted onto Tumblr not for fandom but because it seemed like it was like the non-discussion parts of Reddit without the shit, or rather, you could filter out the shit somewhat effectively. When I was starting to use Tumblr, I liked Reddit most for its nice places for "porniverse" (great pictures of whatever from architecture to animals), learning focused subs from /r/askphilosophy to /r/languagelearning and some humor. The first and the last things were pretty well served by Tumblr and still is, but I think the leak of energy out of Tumblr has been noticeable.

And the alternatives to Tumblr have gotten better from my perspective. As much as I don't really like a lot of Instagram bullshit, it's probably the better platform for finding aesthetic pictures when you just have an acute need to see a field of cosmos flowers and Twitter seems somewhat less dysfunctional in the end and it's actually possible to interact there.

Tumblr is pretty much the first platform I've used for fandom and that usage has really decayed something fierce much like the article says. There really is something on the structural side of the service that causes much of the issues. The privacy options don't make much sense especially if you're creating a blog that's meant to be visible to non-members. Which is sad, because I'd love to have a little blog that's easy to set up and trivial to run for uncomplicated content, without the expectation of much social media engagement or setting or some Wordpress shit.

cool

Wow this is like an impressively shitty solution, but I might use it myself if the need arises.

My title was 100% an oblique reference to the game just to see whether anyone noticed!

I love the bird pic, so delapidated yet there's an onion of hope and a birb friendo.

I love the bird pic, so delapidated yet there's an onion of hope and a birb friendo.

nerd

I mean these are people who probably ostensibly support affirmative action yet didn't think through the implications of having a group like this, organized like this might have?

I think the first commenter is right on the money - it's about control and striving to protect your existing business models with promises, hype and patents. I wonder if we could see free equipment that's pay per hour even (and plentiful advertisement).

That said, I do wonder about this current trend of ignoring latency in just about everything. Using gagdets seems more and more sluggish every year even if once running, lots of processing and action happens. Like using Twitter on a mobile browser is pure Hell and the original concept was pretty much just constrained writing as a social media.