doES ANYONE ELSE REALIZE THAT WE’RE LIKE, THE FIRST GENERATION ON TUMBLR
GIVE IT 10-15 YEARS AND WE’LL ALL BE GROWN UP AND AN ENTIRE NEW SET OF KIDS WILL BE ON HERE BLOGGING ABOUT COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SHOWS AND BANDS AND MOVIES AND BOOKS
THE ONLY THING THEY’LL STILL BE BLOGGING ABOUT THE SAME AS WE WERE IS DOCTOR WHO
HOPEFULLY
We’ll probably all be blogging about Sherlock season 4.
You know that study that found when doing a blind taste test the majority of people prefer pepsi over coca cola so coke changed their recipe to taste more like pepsi, and people actually liked the new coke a lot less because the people who were buying coke didn’t want it to taste like pepsi they wanted their coke to taste like coke. That’s what a lot of the new changes tumblr is working on feel like.
Did you guys know that the most recent version of sharks have fins that are kinda leg like and they like to walk up onto land?
no way i must have missed an update!
The Epaulette shark is only about 9 million years old as a species, making it the most recent branch in the shark family. And it is slowly but surely evolving into a land animal
So we’re all just ignoring Tumblr Live right? Like not make eye contact and hold very still until it goes away?
That’s what I’m doing!
Yet y’all paid for the checkmarks?? I’m confused here, do we hate tumblr’s money-grabbing or not?
It’s not about “hating Tumblr’s money-grabbing”, it’s about having an opinion on how Tumblr makes money. They have to make money in order to survive, there is infrastructure to pay for in the form of servers and the support for those, and there is staff that deserves to be paid for doing the work to keep the site running and they deserve things like health insurance too. All of that costs money, and Tumblr has not been making enough of it to meet those needs.
So I accept the reality that they need to have income, but I want it on the user’s terms. The checkmarks are a silly joke making fun of Twitter that lets users decide to “opt in” and give Tumblr money. It’s clear from the beginning what we get for that money and what Tumblr gets from the transaction, same with paying to put crabs on your dash for a day. It’s a fun, very Tumblr-like thing that gives me a way to choose to support Tumblr without significantly changing my or others user experience and without losing any of what I enjoy about Tumblr.
Tumblr Live is not that. It is a new feature that no one asked for and which is clearly trying to grab some of the popularity of TikTok. I don’t judge anyone for enjoying TikTok, but it’s not my kind of thing, and it’s not what I come to Tumblr for. Video is a very popular format with advertisers, so I am guessing that’s part of why it was implemented. It concerns me that this may be the beginning of Tumblr shifting towards catering to advertisers rather than its users, and that shift would destroy the uniqueness of Tumblr and make it just like every other shitty social media site that’s all about harvesting and selling users’ data.
So yes, I paid for the checkmarks because it’s funny, I wanted to, and it doesn’t change my user experience. And yes, I hate Tumblr Live because it’s opt-out and indicates a potential shift in the focus of Tumblr, which I don’t want.
This.
Tumblr making money is good. Tumblr making money by homogenizing itself to be like other apps is very very bad. Right now it fills a niche that other social media sites/apps won’t touch. So far it’s still mostly a user-based site with little algorithmic intrusion. This latest addition threatens to alter the very nature of the site and make it just like everything else: an advertiser-based popularity contest where the Algorithm controls everything and users have a harder time finding the content they like.
If tumblr turns more to a video focus that means only the “beautiful” people will be popular. And traditionally that translates to “white” and probably “straight.” Anyone who’s less-than-perfect, who has body image issues, is camera shy, or otherwise hates being recorded is going to be left behind. Vid-based content is very much about selling yourself above everything else. Your ideas, your stories, your art or whatever else is secondary if you don’t “look good for the camera.”
That isn’t what I want from tumblr. We already have tiktok, twitch, and youtube. I’m here because this place isn’t like that. So far.
sending people wikipedia articles is my favorite form of humor. one time a long time friend of mine asked why i was using a different name and acting different i sent him the wikipedia page for DID. ryder just asked me why its 108 degrees in nevada right now and i sent him the wikipedia page for global warming and the season of summer.
i see you all in the tags going “this is so funny” you better not steal my fucking bit. im copyrighting this joke
Despite some of its misses, Firefox still matters. Mozilla is pushing companies to be more private, and its key product is different at its core. The browser market is dominated by Google’s Chromium codebase and its underlying browser engine, Blink, the component that turns code into visual web pages. Microsoft’s Edge Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, and Opera all use adapted versions of Chromium. Apple makes developers use its WebKit browser engine on iOS. Other than that, Firefox’s Gecko browser engine is the only alternative in existence.
“This market needs variety,” Willemsen says. If Firefox diminishes further, there’ll be less competition for Chrome. “We need that difference for open internet standards, for the sake of preventing monopolies,” Willemsen says. Others agree. Everyone we spoke with for this story—inside and outside of Mozilla—says having Firefox flourish makes the web a better place. The trick is figuring out how to get there.
Download and start using Firefox if you don’t already, I made the switch back to Firefox after not using it for years and being a chrome person until 2020 and have never regretted it
This post sure as hell became relevant in an unplanned and unforseen way due to the surge of sexbots as of late, huh.
Wave 2/10
stay alert, they’re coming in fast!
Wave 3/10 - They have actually good URLs now, please be careful but also I’m so mad, I just saw “pawpatroleuthanasia” and I am bursting green with envy.
if you’re offline or away and i message you something (like a link to a meme or a picture or w/e) honestly just assume that i’m just leaving it there for when you get back and not expecting you to answer straight away. i don’t need you to respond with “hey, sorry, i wasn’t at the computer!” or anything. i was leaving u a gift for later.
This also applies if you’re online and just don’t want to or have the energy to deal with humans in the moment. Just because we have the ability to reply in real time does not mean we have the obligation.
im like a cat i drag the posts to ur doorstep and if ur not there it’s ok, the post will be on ur porch for later
