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So it’s been a while. I’m bored and I made this poll.

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Precisely this.

I can't believe I haven't seen a single other person have this take. Now that r/place is done this year, can we talk about how writing "fuck spez" on the canvas accomplishes less than nothing? Spez has shown again and again that he doesn't care about public opinion of him; all he cares about is users. Going onto r/place to contribute to writing "fuck spez" doesn't help the situation, it just gives spez the user count and the ad revenue that he wants. I swear I don't understand why I haven't seen a single other person say this anywhere. I normally lurk for the most part but I just feel like I had to finally voice this opinion. Please spread this idea if you ACTUALLY want Spez to fall.

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To all the redditors who are still here a month later:

I love you guys 🥲

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I don’t think anyone should participate in r/place as long as the Reddit protest is still ongoing. Just don’t go on Reddit at all, it’s giving Spez unecessary power.

am I doing this right? rule

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Steve Huffman still stomping his feet and demanding obedience from unpaid workers. https://www.tweaktown.com/news/92256/reddit-issues-final-warning-to-subreddits-posting-nsfw-content-kill-advertising-revenue/index.html

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To all the ex-Reddit users, are y’all going back to Reddit after this debacle officially ends?

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these reddit protests r truly inspiring.

r/aww, r/pics, and r/gifs are all dedicated to john oliver.

r/steam is dedicated to… well, steam.

r/superbowl is filled with superb owls.

r/iphone is filled with pictures of tim “apple” cook

r/shitposting… has bots to piss in ur ass??

and r/memes is seeing if the community wants medieval themed posts only.

anything else you guys got??

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Reddit strikes again: the entire /r/mildlyinteresting moderator team has been kicked out of their moderator positions and locked out of their accounts with 7-day suspensions! As of posting this, they are apparently reinstated, but reddit gave a pretty poop excuse for why the whole thing happened:

The entire r/MildlyInteresting mod team has just been removed without any communication, some of us locked out of our accounts

It looks like the mods-getting-kicked event happened to a bunch of other subs too, and some of those still aren't reinstated.

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Love the malicious compliance some subreddits are doing now

/r/wellthatsucks is about vaccuum cleaners now

/r/steam was forced to reopen and is now about actual steam as in gaseous water

/r/iPhone only allows pictures of Tim Cook

/r/aww only allows pictures of John Oliver being adorable

/r/pics only allows pictures of John Oliver looking sexy

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Reblogging for support.

I’m not going to make any assumptions about this, but if you were in an abusive relationship, reacting this way when you’re startled is very normal. Johnny Depp is a survivor. I hope he’s healing. I am proud of him for how far he’s come and how much he’s overcome

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This! The protest is working, guys! Keep it going!

If Reddit hadn’t seen significant revenue drops, SPEZ wouldn’t be ready to force moderators out of communities. If they were making the same amount of money, he’d be enjoying it while functioning on a fraction of the server load and operational costs. But they’re not. They’re not making the same amount of money. The protests were way larger than he expected, they’re way more affective than he expected, and they’re lasting way longer than he expected. Now he’s using Musk-like temper tantrums as a last resort.

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Reblogging this for all the newcomers!

Very Brief Guide to [tumblr], for Reddit refugees

Shit You Must Do Right Fucking Now:

Change your profile picture, blog header, and title to something other than the defaults. Do it right now. You will be mistaken for a bot otherwise, and blocked.

Go into Settings -> Dashboard, scroll down to Preferences, and turn off the options in the picture. This will get rid of most of the algorithmic stuff.

Turn off Tumblr Live. You have to snooze it once every 7 days for some stupid reason. It's hosted through another company and will steal your data if you use it.

Go to your blog settings (under the little person menu) and turn off these two settings:

Turn off infinite scroll (lags the site) and turn on timestamps on posts, in the same menu as Preferences.

Basic Features of the Site:

Reblogs drive the entire site. If you'd upvote something on Reddit, you'd reblog it on Tumblr. You can add text, images, or tags to a reblog, but you're not required to.

The dashboard is the equivalent to your Reddit feed, and contains the posts of all the people you follow, with the newest at the top

You can send an ask to someone, and it'll appear in their askbox for them to answer. You can receive them too, or turn off the settings if you don't want.

Tags aren't actually used for finding stuff (search function is dogshit), but are more for categorizing. People also talk in tags. Because Tumblr is weird, you can't use quotation marks (") or commas in them without fucking it up

You can filter both tags and phrases under Account Settings; doing this will put a filter over a post that contains them, which you'll have to click through to see the post itself. Useful for avoiding hate speech or blocking out annoying stuff

You can make polls in posts. Here's one now.

Likes are useless. They literally do fuck-all except send a notification to the OP.

Stuff Tumblr Does That Other Sites Don't:

Very old posts (I'm talking from like 2012) often circulate on this site. There's no such thing as a post being "too old" to reblog

Blocking is highly encouraged; you can block someone for any reason. Even for just being annoying.

If you and someone else are following each other, you are mutuals. Mutuals are fucking awesome and are treasured like friends. Mutuals are a thing on other sites but Tumblr treats em differently.

You can screenshot someone's tags if you like them and add them to a reblog. This is called "peer review"

Sometimes someone will find a blog and go through it and like/reblog a bunch of posts. This is totally fine and not "creepy" like it is seen as on other sites.

Tumblr jokes often rely on Continuing The Bit and a "yes, and?" attitude. Goncharov is probably the best example of this.

We are fucking infested with bots. They will either have totally blank profiles or be filled with porn. Block and report on sight.

Censorship is pretty lax here. I can say "I want to brutally stab Elon Musk to death and watch him bleed out in front of a crowd" and nobody gives a shit.

General Etiquette:

Don't try to do epic clapbacks here, you'll probably just get laughed at or blocked. If someone is bugging you or spouting bigoted bullshit, block them.

Reblog art!!! Artists often struggle to gain traction on here; reblogging will give them a boost.

Not every reblog needs a comment or tag in it

You can go all out with tagging your stuff to organize it, or you can just leave it all blank. Someone might ask "hey, can you tag these posts as [x]?" and you can decide if you want to do that or not. It's generally polite to oblige, but "no" is still reasonable.

Avoid discourse like the plague. Filter it, block people who start it, scroll past it when you see it. Just don't get involved in it. Ever.

Don't put fandom tags or jokes on someone's posts about serious matters or personal shit

You're responsible for curating your own dashboard; if you complain about constantly seeing stuff you don't like, that's probably on you. Don't be afraid to unfollow.

Follower count doesn't matter much here and you don't have to make yours known if you don't want to.

Reblog, don't repost. Reblogging keeps the credit and doesn't "steal" engagement like Twitter retweets.

If someone likes something a LOT, they might reblog it like 30 times in a row. This is normal

Having a post blow up is actually kinda a bad thing, since it floods your notifications. There's a sort of in-joke about how having a big post is awful and people jokingly try to stop their own posts from blowing up, often in vain.

Tips:

Get XKit Rewritten if you're on desktop, it's a really helpful extension

In the little drop-down menu next to the 'Post now' button you can either save a draft, schedule a post, or add it to your queue. The queue lets you post things in order at a certain interval, which you can change. It's good for spreading stuff out over time.

You can use Shift+R to quickly reblog stuff and Shift+Q to queue!

Filter your notifications under Activity - you can also see some neat graphs

Find each other! If you want your old Reddit communities to stick together, seek out other refugees and follow them.

Have fun on [tumblr], everyone!

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FR THOUGH. Something about Google searches has changed lately.

I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.

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Reddit has a serious problem with consent.

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Soooooo can Steve Huffman fight Mark then?

LMFAO ZUCK WON BY FORFEIT!

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