#microblogs

[gloopytits-chaosmod]

microblogs break ppls brains like none else. idk how tumblr manage to stay so normal. maybe just cause there's no number in the corner telling you thinking it through isnt worth it you wont be able to express it properly anyways

[voltdragoon]

I love seeing tumblr guides for tiktok refugees. Brother they're not coming here

[nyrovie-ii]

I can’t

[calliechr0me]

that's hot. girls are hot. you're hot.

[gilberttheboy]

What happens when Lestat recreates his Mardi Gras costume to wear on stage for a concert that he invites Louis to. Huh. What then.

What happens when he does a 1990s-madonna-at-the-vmas inspired number but uses a knife instead of a fan and sings a little song about how his lover led him to the guillotine. What do we do then.

I KNOW that madonna performance was on the Pinterest board. I know it.

[queenblackhope]

Będziesz patrzeć jak powoli odchodzę nie robiąc nic aby mnie zatrzymać.

Nea

[faranae]

I love how all Canada and Mexico had to do to pause these idiotic trade war tariffs was to take border programs that'd already started during Biden's term and make Trump think they were his idea.

He and his followers think they strong-armed us.

We just made a fool of them on the world stage.

[alyssuum]

[milcuc]

The crowbar is lost, Mr. Crawling is looking for it :)

[bluastro-yellow]

cat on the pillow!

[canisalbus]

Which is your favorite platform? (of the ones you have accounts to post things I mean. I can't imagine it being Instagram since you don't really post there which honestly fair)

Tumblr, Twitter (X?) bluesky? Something else?

I think I'm going to have to go with tumblr, and it's not just because we're here. Twitter and Bluesky are nice and my experiences on both are overwhelmingly positive. But tumblr has an atmosphere that encourages originality, sharing your creations and talking about things in depth.

[gioia-rodica]

When the etrog is so good you just want to smell like it all day long.

[tomorrowusa]

Microblogging platform Mastodon is taking steps to make sure it never falls into the hands of some MAGA billionaire like Zuck or Musk.

Founder Eugen Rochko is transferring ownership to a nonprofit entity based in Europe. It is already located in the EU where it is free of any political or legal pressure from a Trump administration. Becoming nonprofit is a poison pill to deter any broligarchs who bend the knee to MAGA.

Mastodon announced Monday that it's shifting its structure over the next six months to become wholly owned by a European nonprofit organization—"affirming the intent that Mastodon should not be owned or controlled by a single individual." This takes control of the social network away from its previous "ultimate decision-maker," Eugen Rochko. As founder, Rochko initially took the reins to ensure the decentralized platform would never be for sale and "would be free of the control of a single wealthy individual." His grand vision remains to leave Mastodon users in control of the social network, making their own decisions about what content is allowed or what appears in their timelines. The news comes after leaders of other social networks, like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, have sparked backlash over sudden changes to popular apps like Facebook, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter). For years, Musk has drawn criticism for changing Twitter's hate speech policies through his X rebranding. And more recently, Zuckerberg this month defended Meta's decision to relax hate speech policies (permitting women to be called "property" and gay people to be called "mentally ill") by calling bans on such speech "out of touch with mainstream discourse." Mastodon is hoping to provide an alternative social network for users who are potentially frustrated with their lack of control over their timelines and content on other networks.

Mastadon is part of the Fediverse – which takes a little getting used to. And while not small, it doesn't yet have the enormous volume of broligarch-owned social media; though Elon Musk's transformation of Twitter/X into a playground for Nazis and Trumpsters has sparked growth at Mastodon.

Mastodon appears to be betting that even more users will seek alternative social networks in the future as popular apps enact unpopular policies. The blog discussed progress on a "privacy-respecting search tool" that could be used to explore the entire Fediverse, a collection of independent social media networks that Mastodon connects to. That could make it possible to discover more content without depending on a "For You" algorithm mining user data. And perhaps in a nod to Meta's recent changes, Mastodon also vowed to "invest deeply in trust and safety" and ensure "everyone, especially marginalized communities," feels "safe" on the platform.

Dominic Preston at The Verge writes...

“When founder Eugen Rochko started working on Mastodon, his focus was on creating the code and conditions for the kind of social media he envisioned,” Mastodon says. “The legal setup was a means to an end, a quick fix to allow him to continue operations. From the start, he declared that Mastodon would not be for sale and would be free of the control of a single wealthy individual, and he could ensure that because he was the person in control, the only ultimate decision-maker.” In the short term, nothing should change for users. Mastodon will continue to host the mastodon.social and mastodon.online servers and support its federated network. Routine code development and bug fixes are ongoing, though the announcement adds that “changes are definitely in the pipeline.” “Our core mission remains the same: to create the tools and digital spaces where people can build authentic, constructive online communities free from ads, data exploitation, manipulative algorithms or corporate monopolies,” Mastodon says.

What's not to like about a platform for Twitter refugees which doesn't Zuck?

[lespresso]

a cozy rainy saturday :)

[calliechr0me]

date idea: bedazzling everything in a 20-mile radius together

[transvampireboyfriend]

yay! i love fanart!

..why is she skinny?