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Re: Let’s all go back to Tumblr

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

Really miss the early image-blog days of Tumblr, the reblog functionality causing work to be attributed and sort of collective consciousness made it a fascinating internet art site to browse and contribute to.

Pretty much all been replaced by Instagram now which although has most of the same functionality the fact it's a locked in system with only the most basic form of linking and attribution makes it a completely different place for artists. People stealing work and claiming it's their own is a lot more common on IG, on Tumblr the ease of re-blogging and focus on curating allows users to flourish as either curators or creators without any bad blood between the two.

(Purely talking about the art side of Tumblr here, I wasn't involved in the other areas)

Re: Let’s all go back to Tumblr

#92

Post by codingdave »

bopbop wrote: post #42

This walled garden isn't working! Quick, let's get back to the last one! Seriously though, blogs and RSS - communication on the internet has been solved. It just doesn't seem to be easily monetizable, so a big commercial entity isn't pushing it. This is quite interesting though: "Everyone I knew aged out of it, lost interest in chronicling their personal lives or got jobs writing the kinds of blogs they used to write…

> It just doesn't seem to be easily monetizable, so a big commercial entity isn't pushing it.

The existence of Wordpress would argue otherwise.

Re: Let’s all go back to Tumblr

#93

Post by pferde »

woolvalley wrote: post #37

Any public social platform that wants to be the new thing needs to add a discoverability component for new users. I signed up for mastodon.social a while back, and had no idea who to follow. So I stopped using it. I notice all the commercial ones have a discoverability component when you join to solve this problem.

You can usually search for hashtags that interest you, and take it from there, engaging people talking about them.

Re: Let’s all go back to Tumblr

#94

Post by bopbop »

codingdave wrote: post #92
bopbop wrote: post #42

This walled garden isn't working! Quick, let's get back to the last one! Seriously though, blogs and RSS - communication on the internet has been solved. It just doesn't seem to be easily monetizable, so a big commercial entity isn't pushing it. This is quite interesting though: "Everyone I knew aged out of it, lost interest in chronicling their personal lives or got jobs writing the kinds of blogs they used to write…

> It just doesn't seem to be easily monetizable, so a big commercial entity isn't pushing it. The existence of Wordpress would argue otherwise.

Isn't wordpress more the technology? Or do you mean otherwise?

Who would you see as pushing it? Or do you mean it's monetizable?

It's definitely an excellent piece of software.

Re: Let’s all go back to Tumblr

#95

Post by lagadu »

volkisch wrote: post #44

Only if tumblr promises to close down account/blogs promoting pedophilia/zoofilia/similar degenerate stuff. The moderation after the Yahoo buyout got quite stale, they don't even block nazi, or anti-zionist stuff which is a red flag in liberal media.

And who decides what is "degenerate stuff"? You?

No, thank you.

Re: Let’s all go back to Tumblr

#96

Post by Grue3 »

blueflow wrote: post #82
Grue3 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's been literally years since reply chains stopped to be indented like in your screenshot.

Wrong, that change only happened in the dashboard, not on the actual blogs.

It depends on the theme of a blog. The themes are customizable, so blogs which set their theme were not changed when the new default theme (without indentation) was rolled out.

Re: Let’s all go back to Tumblr

#97

Post by TheBeardKing »

CM30 wrote: post #39
Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree that individual blogs that emit an RSS feed to follow are a great thing. However, most bloggers don’t really have the skills to host their own blog on a dedicated server. So, even if they did avoid Tumblr, they would be relying on another such hosting service like Blogspot or Wordpress.com.

It isn't that hard to install a blog on a shared hosting plan or VPS somewhere. Just find something with CPanel and some sort of auto installer (I think it was called Fantastico or something) and Bob's your uncle. Don't even need to know how FTP works or how to code anything to do that...

It's also not free, and people are getting pretty used to free.

Re: Let’s all go back to Tumblr

#98

Post by s-shellfish »

teddyh wrote: post #68
bunderbunder wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Freedom of speech, sure. I don't know about privacy, though. Anything you post on your blog, or in the comments section of someone else's, will also end up getting scraped by robots and then aggregated and fed into the great Moloch idol of surveillance capitalism. Savvy individuals could manage it themselves, by creating their own servers and encrypting the traffic and only granting access to trusted individuals. Mos…

> Freedom of speech, sure. I don't know about privacy, though. Anything you post on your blog, or in the comments section of someone else's, will also end up getting scraped by robots and then aggregated and fed into the great Moloch idol of surveillance capitalism. You’re forgetting that they also currently monitor everything everyone is reading , not just writing.

That's always the problem. Minds that aren't aware of this become more predictable.

Until they are aware of this.

I still have to personally hold onto the belief that no one mind is ever intrisincally more strong than any other mind. That's the belief assumed to be axiomatic and foundational for all the studying of minds people do.

If I can predict how I believe you will think, I assume I'm mentally stronger, but that stuff is not something anyone can hold onto as a certainty. At least that's my belief, my own faith, my own boundary I believe in that must not be violated. Trying to intentionally control how people think is extremely violent, to me. Just because it doesn't look violent, doesn't mean it's not.

Re: Let’s all go back to Tumblr

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Post by lazyjones »

CM30 wrote: post #39
Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree that individual blogs that emit an RSS feed to follow are a great thing. However, most bloggers don’t really have the skills to host their own blog on a dedicated server. So, even if they did avoid Tumblr, they would be relying on another such hosting service like Blogspot or Wordpress.com.

It isn't that hard to install a blog on a shared hosting plan or VPS somewhere. Just find something with CPanel and some sort of auto installer (I think it was called Fantastico or something) and Bob's your uncle. Don't even need to know how FTP works or how to code anything to do that...

That‘s how you get millions of badly maintained WP instances spreading malware. No, thanks...

Re: Let’s all go back to Tumblr

#100

Post by qrbLPHiKpiux »

CommanderData wrote: post #70
phyzome wrote: post #4

Main takeaways, in my view: - Longer form allows for less heated conversation - Allowing randos to emplace their screeds immediately below your post encourages fighting That second point I think bears more exploration. Maybe we shouldn't allow trolls to inject themselves into every conversation, eh? My favorite format for post/discussion is still the blog format, where comments are moderated by the author of the post…

I think Reddit and sites alike cause a problem with activism. I see topics for great initiatives on sites like Reddit however everything about its engagement is just wrong. Comments are poor - people know how to game it, posts have a limited life span affecting comment quality, when a post disappears from the front page engagement drops to what seems 0%. Re-posts are looked at negatively, reddit community gets bored…

I don’t mind seeing a quality dank meme resurface every once in a while. Scumbag Steve pops up in my life frequently!
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