#migrant exodus

[shaddytheguyislazy]

/r/196 was funny because it started out as a no-rules sub with invisible moderation. You could post hog all you wanted but if you were racist you got kicked.

Ever since the reddit blackout though all the cool people moved here and now it seems like every week they start just making whatever trend or discourse they don't like a breach of the rules.

Which makes it ironic that the website everyone jumped ship to is basically the exact same way, we just like it better because they're so much worse at enforcing their own rules.

[how-to-t-u-m-b-l-r]

Chapter index

Volume 1. - Don’t shoot, I’m friendly!

(Not looking like a bot and how to set up a blog)

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Volume 2. - High Society

(Tumblr etiquette code)

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Volume 3. - Merry… *checks notes* Ides… of.. March?

(Complete list of tumblr holidays)

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Volume 4. - The Dashboard… a magical place

(Settings guide)

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Volume 5. - Hunting Season

(Everything you need to know about the bot problem)

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Volume 6. My blorbo is so cringefail

(Everything you need to know about tumblr vernacular)

coming soon ^

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Asks I’ve answered

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[kinjedl]

ok, so - one thing that I didn't really appreciate about tumblr until I moved here from reddit is the secondary effect of the slower post cycle, in the form of acting like a slow serotonin drip.

I have a post that's like a week old at this point, and I'll still get the occasional notification that someone liked or reblogged it, and I get just a tiny little hit of the happy brain juice reward. Just a smidge, a skoch, a droplet.

Posting the same post on reddit? Assuming it takes off, bigger rush for like the next... maybe 2-6 hours (shorter longer, depending on the size of the community) until newly generated content (i.e. The Algorithm) has pushed it out of the front page and everyone's mind, and it is consigned to the graveyard never to be found or seen again.

tumblr just lets a post echo into infinity, as long as it continues to find a tiny oasis or safe harbor of an audience that can appreciate it and gnu the message onward, a series of beacons that broadcast the message deeper into the cave, but send a tiny tribute of dopamine to tell its creator they're appreciated

[slicedcheesegremlin]

[seizure warning apparently]

I just found out that you can use gifs for tumblr pfps what if we all changed our pfps to the dancing cockroach like that one time before reddit disabled animated profile pics

I got a trans flag one too since this is 196

[settlercolonialismisbad]

Reddit has a serious problem with consent.

[grayve-mistake]

psa

Just a heads up for the redditors using this website for the first time- There are Community Labels for marking content as explicit that you can use for posts or memes that are nsfw. This is just to hide posts from minors and those who are uncomfortable with certain subject matter! I've been getting recommended a lot of nsfw posts from the people who have migrated from r/196 only because I interacted with maybe like two reddit people who posted sfw memes, and so far nothing has been tagged properly. So if you want to avoid accidentally jumpscaring other people with your horny on main posts right after they've been reading about cryptids or lawncare, please use community labels!

you can also use tags to reach other people in certain communities, and block tags for things that make you uncomfortable in your account settings, so definitely tag things correctly! (the tags on this post are pictured below as an example)

It's just a good practice and part of tumblr etiquette at this point so your posts are only seen by people who want to see them and don't upset anyone! (this also goes for people who migrated from twitter, but I haven't seen as much of this from them)

[ladysqueakinpip]

what if I actually started.... 😳 posting oc art here again 👉👈

[bunchacrunchcake]

Mom: how's your job search going?

Me: good I'm making a lot of progress

Her: the market is really bad but it usually swings up soon

Me: usually but I have a hunch that the last ten years of historic extractive capitalism, which you can see a public example of in the Reddit/Google search/Twitter/Threads collapse might be indicative of the fact that the global elite bet on climate change and are extracting as much capital as possible by spinning up as many profitable/extractive companies as possible in a short span of time in order to widen the wealth gap enough before people start rioting in the streets over climate. There's also a large chance a large portion of the job market with be automated away with ai causing larger market compet---

Mom: I'm gonna stop you right there, this is super depressing. I'm going to go. Bye!

[orion-geminus]

hey so uh. Tumblr newbie question: what are the accounts that seem to follow me, despite being completely blank and kind of ominous? Is that the bot thing i saw talked about or is that like Something Else. also what do i do with them? block them? report them? it just confuses me tbh

[catherine-clover]

TIL you can put your posts into a queue and spread them out over a few days so you don't clog up people's feeds

[shaddytheguyislazy]

Okay I admit this one was from /r/shittydarksouls and not 196, but it's Dark Souls men kissing, what do you want. It's a reddit refugee post either way.

[how-to-t-u-m-b-l-r]

Chapter 2. High Society

A beginner’s guide to tumblr etiquette

— How the algorithm works —

Ok so maybe that’s a misnomer. Tumblr doesn’t actually have an algorithm, and so the way all things circulate is reblogs. If you see a post that you like give it a reblog so that more people will see it.

This doesn’t mean liking the post is useless! If you like the post the op gets a notification that somebody liked their post and that would understandably make them happy. Give the post a like! It’s like giving the op a pat and going ‘Nice post!’

If you see somebody post a poem or a fanfiction or a sketch or a drawing and you think it’s nice like and reblog it! Artists struggle to circulate on here and it’s SO helpful to creators of all types!

Don’t try and get famous, you won’t. If you’re not already a content creator on another site you won’t get far with trying for fame. If you post something it will either blow up or not, it’s up to the people.

Brands don’t make it far here and neither do celebrities so the odds are we’ll push them out if they get here.

— Discorse —

Maybe you don’t like something somebody posted, maybe it’s problematic, whatever the case you don’t interact. Don’t reblog it with your opinion or even comment on the post. Block the person that posted it and move on. If they said something truly problematic (Something illegal or against the guidelines) then report them and block them.

So now let’s say you have a pet peeve about a fandom and you want to post about it. In this case let’s use a ship you hate as an example. Don’t use the main tags of the ship use a discorse tag. (they exist you just need to look a bit more.) If you don’t use a discourse tag then expect to be blocked.

— Friends? —

You reblog a post with a funny comment and somebody adds to that. You lead into a back and forth of commenting and laughing, you fallow them back, they fallow you back. This is a mutual!

When you fallow somebody and they fallow you back their your mutual. Mutuals tend to exchange dms and reblog each other’s posts. Their a generally nice thing to have and it’s like having friends that actually texts you back- *begins crying*

— What else you can do with tags —

When you reblog something and you want to comment but don’t care if more people see the what you said then put it in the tags. When somebody reblogs the post your tags will not appear under their post.

If you see somebody posted tags you like you can screenshot the tags and reblog the post with the tags you screenshoted. This is called peer review.

— If you do this I’ll maul you. —

If you repost art credit the artist but generally don’t repost art. Reblog don’t repost. If I add a funny caption though… NO! Credit the artist even if it’s a meme!

— tw ₩h@t d03$ th@t $@¥?? —

If you for whatever reason need to use a trigger warning for a post don’t censor yourself when you tag it.

When you need to use a trigger warning you should tag it with the triggering topic without censoring. Example:

Correct: #tw Suicide

Incorrect: #tw $u!¢!d3

If when you tag a trigger warning censoring the tag will prevent the people who need the trigger warning from being protected.

If you’re posting something with flashing lights don’t tag it as “#Photosensitive, #Photosensitivity, #Epilepsy” these are where photosensitive people talk about their experiences. Tag it as “#tw flashing lights” or “#flashing lights”

— Sorry, I’m cringe! —

Don’t worry about seeming cringe when you post! Tumblr is the reason cringe culture is dead, post about your empty or hated fandom! Do whatever you want! These are free lands!

More advice here!

[llyfrenfys]

Just occurred to me- if there any reddit migrants who are interested in the Welsh langauge and/or gay stuff, you should check out my blog!

And shout out to the recent followers who've been leaving lovely tags and comments! Really nice to see

[catgirl-catboy]

Hoe, don't do it!