#Reliable Internet

[botanyshitposts]

Eta on the YouTube video? No rush, just exchange

im gonna be honest man please do not count on me here lmao. my follow through rate for these projects is like 5%. real ones remember gourdquest and other related failed projects i came close to the sun on. if i succeed it will be huge for me on a genuine personal level and it will be the first time i've finished a creative project at all in years but if i do not. neither you nor me should be surprised

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

You know what I find strange about portal fantasy? There’s always this assumption that if more than one person goes into the portal fantasy, they came from the same place. There’s never a second portal halfway across the world, a person who you would be the complete opposite of at home but here you’re outsiders together. Imagine finishing your quest, going home, and realizing that you’re continents away from the only person who understands you, and you might never find them again.

[xcziel]

Hey wise people of tumblr, in the interest of having resource materials PHYSICALLY available for people to find

what are some actual books on or covering reproductive health that are as current/accurate as possible and that might help a person make thoughtful, informed choices about contraception, pregnancy, etc. and dealing with complications (miscarriage, pregnancy-onset conditions)?

there have got to be some clinic staff or advocates with sources that aren't just websites or similar

[st-just]

Y'know maybe I just have a somewhat jaded view of college education at this point but I truly cannot think of a way to frame that makes me less sympathetic than 'making this technology available to people to use of their own free will is inflicting it upon us."

It was immoral to invent spellcheckers without convening a roundtable of affected English lit and rhetoric professors I guess.

[atlantic-riona]

hate that when it comes to technology, people are always moving towards the fastest, newest thing, even if it's less reliable and not applicable for anyone who lives outside of a major urban area

[sirsugarmeat]

I’ve seen a lot of people be like, “oh how did people NOT know that Mr. Beast isn’t a good person?? Isn’t it obvious once you watch any one of his videos?”

And, like, yeah. I think to most sentient adults it was clear that this was prime fake-charitable philanthrocapitalism. But I think a majority of us who are celebrating this wave of Anti-MrBeast content are just happy that someone from the inside came forward with more tangible stories and proof that he’s actually abhorrent that even people who didn’t think he was bad before can’t ignore.

I think a majority of sentient adults, before this whole thing, saw a Mr Beast video once or at least heard of him and said, “I vaguely know what he’s up to; he reeks of finance bro. I don’t like him, but all I can do is not watch his content” because to Mr Beast fans there was nothing you could definitively say that would “prove” that he was a bad person.

But now there is, and it’s sparked a movement of people trying to expose more of his shitty practices, and I’m just grateful that those people can finally be heard now instead of immediately dismissed because Mr Beast “donates to charity”.

[jxurnes]

i have been waiting for this to load for an hour and i truly am rethinking my decisions

[rhysiana]

With every change to the UI of this website, the more convinced I am that no one working at Tumblr has read any actual research on how social media and/or electronic word-of-mouth, ie the gold standard of internet marketing that all advertisers slaver over, actually works. If they're trying to steer toward advertiser dollars, they are missing the mark. If they're trying to steer toward usability by humans, they are really missing the mark.

The simple version is this: if you make it impossible for people to share things from your site outside of the site, you're not attracting new users. No one wants to sign up for yet another website just to get access to one potentially interesting post, and why would people who make and sell things want to post on a site that blocks their reach? When Instagram started doing annoying popovers on everything someone tried to share with me, I just stopped opening IG links at all, and I know plenty of people in my various Discord servers who now have the same reaction to Tumblr links.

And now they're making it hard to share even within their own ecosystem? How does this make sense?? DMs now overlay the main body of the dash BUT ALSO need sidescrolling to display the full preview image of the post. How do you make something both wider and also less useful? The strength of this site was how much actual humans could still curate feeds and actually talk to each other. If I'm just expected to reblog only as algorithm-light and never talk to anyone, this is just as pointless as Facebook, a site I stopped using a decade ago.

[spicyraeman]

Back from the void, got the power back on and the internet immediately went out ripp

[pollen]

i've been diving a lot deeper into adhd symptoms and comorbidities and misdiagnoses and whenever i tell my boyfriend something i learned that sounds like me he responds with something like

[liquidstar]

ok based on what im seeing from cohost it actually seems like the best alternative if you actually wanna be able to make whatever kinda posts you want. so like for my purposes it HYPOTHETICALLY works best. its also pretty similar to tumblr in terms of layout though im not a huge fan of the design of the site? hopefully i can customize it more though- theres a waiting period of about a day or two before i can really post or do anything so i really cant say 100% if im on board

but if tumblr went down i might try to use cohost for my oc stuff, and honestly i would like it if enough ppl used it so that i could just stay on there, but if i have to use twitter to keep in touch w ppl so be it. i really hate how public twitter feels though, i like it better on smaller sites like here and, well, hypothetically cohost, where it doesnt feel like i could be subject to the public eye at any point.

so yeah ill tell you all how good or bad it is once the waiting period is over and hopefully if its good enough for me and maybe some of you we can make accs to move to, if the time ever comes. but for now im happy with my stuff here and i hope i can keep it here. if you already have one my username there is the same, tho obvs its empty. anyway im going to watch k on

[sisterofthesouth]

can anyone who owns physical copies of deltora quest tell me what the front or back covers say re: how many copies of dq have been sold

[daily-utsu-p]

[jadefyre]

time to vibe on the dash with the mutuals. hi, mutuals

[council-of-beetroot]

@ that post about the person getting fished by neonazis just because you left because you learned they were neonazis doesn't mean you're aren't antisemitic it only makes you anti-nazi