yesterday my roommate got mad at me because i saw him eating kit-kats and said “oh, so you’re a little kit-kat boy, are you?” and then i had a dream about him killing me
i know ive said this before but everything automattic has been doing for the past year-ish…. it’s fucking surreal seeing this website run by competent management
and honestly i think ppl need to stop outrage posting about “how DARE tumblr demand money from us” or “tumblr devs are stupid if they don’t realize we’re all using ad blockers” is like. they do know that. that isn’t the point
the point is that these are ways of monetizing the website that don’t involve selling your data. i PROMISE it is better this way than for them to go down the facebook route and treat us like products they can sell to third parties
if you disagree with various tumblr policies that’s fine! you don’t have to pay for tumblr blaze, or tip fellow users, or pay for ad-free. but do notice that all three of those monetization options treat us like clients, and in one case, allow us to give money to other tumblr users! something many of us already do!
These are great points. Whether we realize it or not, most of us like tumblr because it’s not monetized the way other platforms are. For example, one of the main reasons I’m still here is because the site allows me to view posts chronologically instead of algorithmically (which of course goes hand-in-hand with targetted advertising).
It bears mentioning again that tumblr is very different from other social media sites today. As you say, it has (relatively) minimal advertising and data collection. It doesn’t use an alogrithm to manipulate you into spending more time here. It doesn’t force you to download an app (the tumblr mobile site sucks, but at least it exists at all). You have a lot more control over your experience of tumblr than your experience of Instagram.
In my opinion, they’re asking us to help make this style of platform financially solvent.
In my opinion, they’re asking us to help make this style of platform financially solvent.
gotta love how in 2012 Tumblr, all the replies on even slightly weirdly worded posts and replies were like “oh mY GOD what did I just read” and “THIS ENTIRE WEBSITE IS ON DRUGS” and a long series of Superwholock gifs of people flailing and laying face down on the ground and generally overreacting
and in 2022 someone can just calmly post shit like “off I fuck on my weekly journey into the deep murky woods to snort a line of ants off the Woodland Ghoul’s dick” and nobody even comments, they’ll just quietly nod like yeah mood and reblog that shit.
Maybe a faint little “yeah that’s valid” hiddne quietly in the notes.
GINGER ALE BE HITTING ALWAYS I COULD BE DYING OF EVERY POSSIBLE DISEASE AND BE BLEEDING OUT ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AND TAKE A SIP OF Canada Dry AND BE LIKE ….. DAMN THAT HITS
Microsoft really out here trying to stifle my creativity
I know “oh no”, “oops”, and “uh-oh” are the suggested substitutes, but it really just looks like Microsoft is prompting you for an apology to your potentially offended readers
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Screenshot from Microsoft Word where the person has typed “Shit.
Shit. Shit. Shit.”
Each
“shit” is underlined in blue, and the suggestion from Word says,
“This language may be offensive to your reader”
Under
this are the options “Oh no”, “Oops”, and “Uh-oh”
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