#Your server your rules

[manifestingalignment]

Are you guys excited about Tumblr potentially joining the Fediverse? 👀 I know I am!👇

https://www.howtogeek.com/850954/tumblr-and-flickr-might-join-mastodons-fediverse-network/

And if you have absolutely no sweet clue what the Fediverse even is, now is the time to learn about it because it’s the new Internet 2.0!

So what does it mean if Tumblr joins the Fediverse? 

It means that we will be part of a very interconnected space with thousands and thousands of independently run platforms that are completely outside of the Tumblr platform. Potentially, we will be able to follow, interact with other users, and support our favorite content creators across various platforms in the Fediverse without having to be part of those platforms if we don’t want to be. And Vice Versa, they will be able to follow and interact with those of us on Tumblr without having to be on the Tumblr platform themselves. How cool is that?!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

oh hey! i was reading a fic the other day where Wangji was once misspelled as Wangu. which leads me to: MDZS Pingu-style??? noot noot!

Do you think love can bloom on the sea ice?

[kirstenly]

Pei Ming "hoho" emote for your use in Discord and Chat servers

[umblrspectrum]

his name is skig he’s british and he’s infinitely better than mr whatsapp “skint” roach

[tosteur-gluteal]

I'm still trying to figure out a design for him

It doesn't feel Slavic enough

And alsoooo it feels like something is missing - feel free to give suggestions!!

[iidgm]

the demons won. ill set it up further tomorrow but if anyone's interested lemme know in the replies lmao

[blindchandelure]

I hate the proliferation of Discord in modern fandom. The idea that people are having all these fun conversations without me is so isolating.

[soulwhisp]

Apparently a hot take but i really think that authors,artists,game developers, etc shouldn't be TOO involved with the fandom surrounding what they created. By all means interact with it as much as you want, but i feel like if you try to insert yourself too much in a fandom space you're bound to see things that you dont like.

I see this with one fandom im in where the creators were way too involved and it led to them getting some really bizzare parasocial fans (wich can happen to anyone but specially if ur too involved in your fandom) but also to them trying to control every single thing their fandom posts.

You as a creator ARE allowed to be uncomfortable with certain fanmade content, but you cannot make a fandom of thousands of people on multiple different websites only post sanitized content that you fully agree with. You can ask them to not show that kind of content to you, but you cannot stop it from being made.

There will always be sometimes that you dont like on the Internet and no matter how much it makes you uncomfortable, you cannot stop those who make those contents and its also not right to harrass them or send others to do so, best i can tell you to do is block and move on.

[knownbyanothername]

why do so many people ban furry shit in their discord servers.

'they get really weirdly nsfw and stuff--' no like. you can have. sfw furry stuff. like

banned in several discord servers warrant for arrest

[chekovsphaser]

What baffles me the most about right-wingers is how they will identify a problem that is real and exists, (which was 99% of the time caused by right-wing policies), and then decide the reason for it is actually those lazy poors.

[topaztimes]

Arguments against overposting people's art (not giving a compliment/reaction) on Discord:

-It takes literally five seconds to write a compliment about something that took someone upwards of an hour

-People do not owe you free art to look at and enrich your world (be glad that it's not locked behind a paywall)

-If you were the one being overposted and you didn't mind that, if you didn't want a compliment, why not send your art to an empty groupchat? It serves the same purpose!

-There are so many structures that you can use. '[Thing that caught my eye first][why it caught my eye]' is a personal favourite that sounds heartfelt especially if you add a nice adjective in there ('I like the lineart!! It's lovely and sharp')

-If you don't have time, or you can't think of anything, Discord has a lovely feature that allowed you to directly reply to a post with a kind emoji of any kind. They're called reactions, in case you didn't know /s

-Discord is a social platform. It's intended for messaging each other. What is the actual point in treating it like Instagram or something

-The world is a better place when you encourage people to do what they like to do

Anyway, yea. There's literally no good reason to overpost. 'I was feeling lazy' or 'I can't be bothered' just isn't good enough -- leave posting for another day if you cannot muster enough energy to tap twice on your screen. Are you kidding. Would it kill you to have a nice thought about someone else's accomplishments?

[backtochicago]

maybe that duck finally realized that running a minecraft server with a massive fanbase including performative chronical online fans and functioning it as a brand business paying salaries to the employees are never as easy as what he thought and only collecting leasons from following someone shadow footprints will never make you realize how risky it is until you are in their shoes.

[kirstenly]

Dead Yin Yu emotes for your viewing an using pleasure. Didn't know if i wanted to do donghua or manhua flavoured so i did a quick modification to kinda give you guys options.

[mbat]

honestly my biggest wonder about yesterdays drama was like... who even was that? not the person being called out, but the one calling them out. like, its one thing to make a throwaway to make a callout post, but to go on anon and try to pull unrelated people into it? this was clearly someone still in the taleblr server since they had screenshots from literally the same day in their callout

this isnt me taking sides because genuinely i have more important things to worry about than all that, but its different when it comes to this person because like... i just thought yall were different than that? maybe we all dont totally consider eachother friends entirely but i liked to think we were all somewhere around there for the most part

theres only so many of us and we all try to stay chill (to more or less success) because like... theres probably less than 100 of us left, and we're all adults by now as far as i know, and i know age doesnt really equal maturity, but its just so immature to try and stir drama by messaging unrelated parties.

honestly even if the person told me in private who they were its not like id make shit worse by posting about them or something because, again, i have bigger things to worry about, im just curious at this point. its not even an obligation for them to come forward, im just admitting that im curious.

if anything all i have to say is be the bigger person and block and move on when you dont like someone or something someone did. i get that you saw stuff that you found gross and you wanted everyone to feel the same way you did, but the rest of us just want to live our lives. plus i think the people that were messaged arent even in the discord so it was honestly even weirder to do that

ive had my fair share of seeing things that made me feel gross to see or read or know about, like, seriously i found out one of my friends was a pedo last year (and i promptly blocked the cunt). but it doesnt do anything to pull other people into the mess and try to start shit.

basically, just be more mature, cause i know yall are better than that. you dont have to read fics that you dont like, and you dont have to interact with people you dont like. your online experience is yours and the best option is always to block and move on. ive had my fair share of drama, and all it does is ruin peoples days, and not much else.

my biggest point, honestly, is that this is such a small fandom and i dont want whats left to come crashing down because some drama makes everyone left hate it here. i dont care whos right or wrong because literally whatever its internet drama, i just dont want this community to die out.

[v01dbug-s1nr0se]

as a high schooler, i hate high schoolers

[lala-blahblah]

joining a discord server is just recreating the experience of when you were in middle school and everyone in your friend group had one member of the friend group they liked the best that they're always trying to gain the approval of (and it isn't you)