#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

[nyrovie-ii]

I can’t

[aulia-m]

Blogs vs Microblogs

I’ve shared my thoughts about microblogs vs proper blogs a few times over the years but even after more than 20 years of blogging and more than 15 years of microblogging I still haven’t landed on a definitive position.

It’s evident that the era of Twitter has rendered blogs almost exclusively for more niche segments. The ability of microblogs to deliver almost instant readership and feedback to a piece of writing gives their authors relentless dopamine shots that keeps them around for much longer periods. 

Blogs allow for more verbose and nuanced posts but when microblogs allow for that to happen as well, that makes you question the necessity of blogs other than the more obvious ones such as easier indexing, categorization, search, and discovery. 

I guess it’s a matter of choosing between delivering more complete thoughts on a faster conversational platform and putting them down on your own space that you can have better control over. 

Sometimes I wonder what would happen had something like Pownce had prevailed instead but that would require an alternate world in which the public chose Gowalla over Foursquare. Simplicity seems more likely to win over more complete or elaborate executions in our world after all.

[krijgdekleruh]

Ik kijk hier gewoon wat rond om te zien of t een mooi alternatief is voor Twitter

[tadpoledyke]

Maybe a butch with big arms needs to finger me in a dingy bar bathroom maybe that will heal me

[alyssuum]

storybook trees & sea

[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.

[queenblackhope]

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

Nea

[lespresso]

a cozy rainy saturday :)

[transvampireboyfriend]

yay! i love fanart!

..why is she skinny?

[gioia-rodica]

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

[jesncin]

Finally got a bluesky btw! I'll be posting art daily there for a good while. If we hit a certain milestone I'll post a comic to celebrate :)

[chemicalarospec]

genderfluid roommate who is not out to their family sees me reading Nimona and says "omg i love that book and the movie!" Fork found in kitchen.

[alicewritten]

finally trying out lino cutting!

[scriptgoyal]

I don't understand people.

And maybe I never even wanted to understand them.

I don't even want to explain myself.

I just want those bonds that can be felt.

Which don't need to be understood, don't need to be explained.