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fortunately-bi · 1 year ago

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God after that rant in the tags I really do miss old Tumblr. Like not just for the nsfw stuff but also like, I miss all of the people I used to follow who disappeared and I never found. I miss the stuff I can't find anymore because it got unfairly nuked during the ban, I miss not having ads, I miss not having weird layouts and random blogs pushed on me and Tumblr live giving me heart attacks every time I think I accidentally clicked one. Like for a long while this site was just left alone with the occasional update and different color of blue and we all just kinda existed(at least that's how my dash looked). Tumblr feels like walking into a house I used to live in but now someone else lives there and they painted the walls a different color they changed a bunch of things. Like it's still the same layout, there's still things that pop up sometimes that poke at the nostalgia but it just feels weird.

#change is good im not saying tumblr needs to stay the same forever #but i worry the influx of users is going to get in their heads and staff is going to think they need to add more things no one asked for #people like tumblr for being tumblr dont make it like Instagram or Twitter or tiktok #i hope they keep it unique and #i say this lightly at the moment because the new photo viewer is... disgusting #but easy to use and understand #i don't want algorithm doom scrolling like Twitter #i don't want a bunch of live video and influencers pushing shit on me #i don't want corpos rubbing their greedy hands at us #like yeah tumblr isn't perfect and lately especially theyve pushed some not good updates #but even now i still feel like they are a last bastion of old social media that hasnt been bastardized by capitalism #they opened the tumblr store because the site DOES need money to exist and i can understand that #i can respect that they didn't immediately jump to getting major corpos to advertise here and make blogs to bug us ever 3 swipes #i can respect that they do seem to be trying to cater to us and not make this an ad blasted experience #and i hope it stays that way #because legitimately we haven't had a social media blow up in popularity simce tiktok #and tiktok isnt for everyone i am not a quick video person its overstimulating and tiktok is uh #clickbaity in however you could explain that in how it works if that makes sense #if tumblr goes under like what next #i feel like the internet is literally seeing its downfall in real time #no one decent can make a decent website because its expensive and getting advertising is the best way to deal with that #except ads already engulf the whole internet people are getting sick of them and stupid algorithms #bah were getting into a whole different rant now #i hope the internet can recover because its really been an amazing thing for people to connect and help each other #AND i think the internet gained mass popularity very quickly and no one cared to learn internet courtesy and its failing us big time #i think tumblr has survived for so long because our unwritten rules that MOSTLY everyone agrees on and its kept the peace #and its not like we have tumblr police or anything we all just agree thats how its works and function like so #i havent seen that anywhere else

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