#also 'it's tumblr (tpdb) that's mainly responsible for tumblr (userbase) dying' asdfghjkl why are new people coming here if it's dying

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Laughing my ass off at the idea that Lex of all people doesn’t get new engagement But seriously. What the hell is that person even talking about. Tumblr isn’t making people get an account just to read. You can casually scroll blogs without being logged in till the cows come home and you’ve reached the very first post ever made on a blog unless it’s locked, should you have the time and patience. You DO have to be logged in order to reblog (obviously. No blog no reblog), to comment, or to send asks to people who have Anon Asks blocked. So this post never addressed readers without Tumblr accounts who just read a handful of blogs for the fun of it. It addresses people who make accounts and then never reblog. “That influx of people following you that have empty/barely used blogs is likely from that” Well if they’ve supposedly been reading and lurking for a while they should’ve gotten a feel for the site’s culture shouldn’t they. Or possibly come across one of those “if your blog is mostly empty we will assume you’re a bot” posts. Ah no, I forgot, that’s entitlement and bullying and insisting that your followers owe you something! I mean, you’re right, new users don’t owe the site or other users shit. But then, they also don’t get to whine that the non-existent algorithm treats them poorly, that a lot of users just block them on sight, or what old users are mean when they point out that this isn’t how Tumblr works. They also don’t get to make up nonsense about the technical side of Tumblr without getting called out on it

seeing a lot of “why would i reblog anything i don’t have something to add” like

sir this is the user-circulated content site