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always-a-slut-4-ghouls · 6 months ago

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On tumblr when you post you’re just playing Russian roulette with your post getting attention, but it’ll probably get ignored.

On Reddit any comment you make outside of some very niche community will immediately have someone downvoting you and calling you like, three different insults. Then they will wonder why you only log in every couple months. Like, it’s a very helpful website when you have a question for another community you’re in, but you’ll also get someone being immediately hostile when you make an innocuous post on a garden subreddit 😑

At least on tumblr people have to actually seek out your random ass text posts and go out of their way to start shit, and you don’t have the up and down vote system that feels like playing with my self confidence and worth issues.

Both websites are toxic part of the time (what social media isn’t?) and both are actually more useful for weird people, but holy shit does Reddit feel more aggressive about shit. Maybe it’s just the devil you know, but at least on this mess of a website half your hate will be for the most random shit and misunderstandings that people have to seek out finding if your blog is a normal size. Reddit is either posting on a dead sub or getting immediately thrown to the, well, sharks and wolves aren’t actually super aggressive towards humans under normal circumstances, so something else that could tear you apart instantly for just existing in the same space as them.

#emma posts #there’s a reason i stopped spending as much time on that site #multiple actually. but one of them is that website is like ‘rsd trigger simulator’#and tumblr is like ‘how dare you say we piss on the poor’#everyone is an idiot in both places. but one is instantly more volatile #it’s preactically on sight #other social media is mostly being used by me to post my art or talk to irl friends and family #some of those sites are wild. but not in such an instant way #provided you aren’t huge or have some internet hate stalker #my first deviantart account was wild like that. you phrase something awkwardly at the age of 13 and you suddenly have one or two 16ish year #olds stalking you and telling you to Kys and threatening your family #but that was in the old days. haven’t run into that in years #but seriously. whoever those people were. I hope you feel like shit about those past actions #especially because that 13 year old had made art and posts about her depression 😑#and irl bullying #I hope you got better. sincerely. but if not? die #jk. but still #actually. no. if you’re still telling people that sort of thing try it on yourself #i don’t have a twitter. I don’t plan on getting one. but I’ve heard that’s toxic too. but for the brief time I did try it years ago I was #just ignored by most people #I also like websites where you can share other posts with followers but that might be because one of my first socials was facebook #Facebook is still useful for local stuff. but it’s not as anonymous I guess #even on Facebook though it feels somewhat less ‘on sight’ attacking #but gods. the ‘piss poor reading comprehension’ website is so much more comfortable than the ‘dog piled for asking about a plant’ website #and the ‘just block them’ culture is so useful #i make a post on Reddit like ‘anyone know of houseplants that are like this?’ and have some dude downvote me and respond like #‘are we supposed to be your servants’ like dude. just ignore the post if you don’t want to answer the question #and I’m not touching anime subs with a 10ft pole #looked at one once and went ‘never touching that again’

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