#probably Reddit honestly

[towlerknows]

Post.

If your main reason for using Twitter is/was news, there's a new social media site called Post that is specifically designed for news. Kind of looks like if Twitter and Tumblr had a baby website, but reads like a newspaper where you can choose the types of stories you like.

It's still kind of social media and some people do chat or post non-news things, but mostly it's focused on news. A lot of the journalists and news organizations I respect are there - like Reuters and Rachel Maddow, so I thought I'd recommend it.

There's a wait to get an account, but I got mine after only about a week. One caveat, it's free and has a lot of free content and articles, but some articles you pay for in microtransactions. Like you "pay" 3-5 points to read an article that interests you. Points are cheap, you get 50 free to start, then can purchase them. I think I paid $14 for 1000.

I've been yelling for this for years. I don't want to subscribe to the New York Times, but I will pay 50 cents or a dollar to read an article that particularly interests me. Post is way cheaper than that.

Anyway, I'm really loving this and wanted to share.

[math-memes]

[piosplayhouse]

I guess it's more of a show of demographics than anything but I'm always a bit side eye-y when discussions around SSO's character customization update ONLY revolve around people being mad about there not being enough skinny body types (often with a weird undercurrent of fatphobia which people should absolutely fuck off with) and not like. Wow it's great that they're bringing in more ethnic features and skin tones and textured hair so more kids can actually feel comfortable and represented in the game

[cloud-ya]

the concept of infodumping is so... alien(?) to me. I cannot bring myself to talk about something for a long time, let alone getting into details because I usually forget or don't know them. even less well do I feel when I try to rumble about something with no feedback in form of attention or understanding. I can go on about that one polish rapper or whatever concept is only known to me among the people I know and talk to, but what of it when the only thing I get is silence, a casual "cool" thrown to acknowledge my messages or a change of topic. I wonder if it's something about adults never understanding things I like and me being awful at explaining, thus preferring to just hide them or brush them off as "nothing particular" or describing them as vaguely as possible (e.g. "just a video game"); also in fear of being perceived or judged

what is the opposite of infodumping?

[unheavenlybody]

i didnt know u couldn't make posts on reddit without earning "comment karma" by commenting on other posts boooo they removed my makeup inquiry post. this is terrible for someone who is typically a silent internet lurker >:(

[diavolaangelica]

👀.... 🤣🤣🤣

[rattraptmnt]

I can't stand people who can't let others enjoy things, I posted a Raph x Alopex post on reddit, and this guy just goes "I hate the idw comics" like??? Not liking the idw comics us perfectly fine, but going out of your way to comment about how you don't like it on posts of fans harmlessly enjoying the series is annoying af

[thebaconspider]

okay i guess people are coming to tumblr from reddit so i figured i'd make my own guide because the other ones piss me off

so first things first

you're going to want to change your pfp/header/blog description off of the defaults. tumblr has a pretty big bot problem so blogs with default pfp/headers are usually a block on sight for most people. you may also want to make a post saying your new from reddit and maybe reblog some things.

thats the most important thing the rest of this is pretty optional

you're going to want to go into settings under the dashboard tab and change some things.

Endless scrolling: preference thing, i prefer to have it on but you could turn it off if you wanted

Show timestamps on posts, reblogs, and notes.: you're going to want to make sure this is on, posts circulate on tumblr a lot longer than they tend to on other sites. seeing posts from 5+ years ago is a pretty common occurrence.

Shorten long posts: turn this on, you don't want to get color of the sky'd.

Use blog colors when viewing blogs: another preference thing, i personally have it on but there are many reasons you might want to turn it off.

Best Stuff First: you're going to want to turn this off if you want a chronological dashboard.

Include stuff in your orbit: most people will tell you that you must turn this off but you really don't have to, i turn it on myself from time to time. it just puts stuff the people you follow have liked on your dashboard occasionally.

Include "Based On Your Likes!": another one most people will say you need to turn off but you don't really need to. personally i leave it off because if i want to see stuff based on my likes i just go to my for you page.

Include followed tags post: you can turn this one off if you want, i'm not sure why you would follow a tag if you didn't want to see posts from it occasionally.

Enable colorized tags: a preference thing, you can turn this off if you want.

Snooze Tumblr Live: you probably should turn this on but i got tired of turning it on every week so i just ignore the tumblr live stuff. whatever you do don't use tumblr live it's run by another company and harvests your data. EDIT: Tumblr Live was removed a while ago

next your gonna want to go to your blog settings.

Enable custom theme: i would really recommend turning this on. it lets you do a bunch of crazy stuff with your blogs theme (including just straight up editing the html) and it also gives you back your [blank].tumblr.com url instead of your just using the tumblr.com/[blank] url.

Share posts you like: makes your likes public, i would recommend turning this off.

Share the Tumblrs you're following: makes the blogs you follow public, i would recommend turning this off.

now for some feature of the site

this is the like button, you press it if you like something. you can only like a post once. some users will bitch at you if you use it, kill them.

this is the reblog button, you press it if you want something to show up on your blog. you can reblog a post as many times as you want.

you can add tags, text, images (anything you could put in a post) on a reblog but you don't have to.

this is the reply button, you press it if you want to leave a comment on a post. it's kinda strange and i don't like using it.

tags

tags are cool, you can use them to find things or organize the stuff on your blogs.

some people say the search function doesn't work which just isn't true. sure searching for the content of a post doesn't really work but searching by tag works pretty well in my experience.

to do this type the tag you want into the search bar and then click "Go To #[tag]"

you can also filter tags if you don't want to see posts with that tag, they'll still show up on your dash they'll just be blurred and you'll need to click on them to see them. it will say which tags it has that are causing it to be filtered.

people also often use tags to leave a little comment on posts or communicate back and forth or hold additional information.

community labels

i don't really see people talking about these, i don't think many people use them, but your probably going to want to set these to either "Show" or "Blur"

note: if you set a label to "Hide" posts with that label will not show up for you at all

iirc all of these are set to "Hide" by default so remember to change that setting if you want to.

one last thing: the queue

the queue is pretty neat, if you want to reblog something later, but don't have a specific time in mind, you can queue it!

you can change how many things in your queue are posted a day and what times of day they get posted on your queued post page.

and thats everything i can think of.

apologies if i forgot anything. EDIT: Additional Information

Asks

i totally should've covered these when i first made the post, sorry.

asks are pretty cool. if asks are turned on people can send little messages to your inbox.

ask options are found in your blog settings. you can choose to allow anonymous asks, asks with media, or just turn off asks all together.

Destiel News

important news is often shared in the form of a meme from the scene in supernatural where castiel confess his love for dean, with the top image being castiel with the caption "i love you" and the bottom image being dean with whatever recent news the user is sharing as the caption.

here's the blank for your news announcing purposes

[poolboyservice]

I've gotten paranoid recently, I just need to ask

ygs will let us know when we get posted on systemcringe, and not leave us blind to the onslaught of hate towards us, right ?? you will let us know, right????

We haven't been posted on system cringe or similar as far as we know, but we're still terrified, yk ??

[vvelegrin]

man i think i need to seek out arabic-speaking areas of the internet to have maybe a reasonable chance to practice at least my reading and writing. :/

[alex-just-vibing]

what if i vaguepost (not that vaguely) about a random reddit post i saw about one of my favorite bands. what then

[lavendertownsghost]

I'm finally redoing the Minaite parody of Hoist the Colors that I did like 8 years ago now that I have a better mic, and I want to try and use an instrumental that won't get copyrighted (the first version I did used the credits theme straight from the movie so i think it'll get copyrighted) but all of the scores and covers I can find are shorter versions and cut one of the choruses, and I don't want to leave that chorus out :(

[bottomvalerius]

I hate being obsessed with cooking shows because I only have Kyle to yell my thoughts about it LOL

[amethysttribble]

Gotten to C3 finally! I’ve enjoyed the first 2 1/2 episodes I’ve watch, but I’ll admit, the sheer amount of negativity I’ve seen surrounding it has made me almost… jumpy, I suppose?

Like I’m waiting to see what makes it the ‘bad’ campaign

[gensokyogarden]

I found this Twitter thread discussing Reimu and Autistic traits quite interesting. As someone both with Autism and in the process of getting my master's degree in clinical psych, I both found it relatable and think the OP made a lot of good points in their analysis (though I will note that you can't really diagnosis a fictional character but it's all for fun). So I thought I'd share it.

[flavia8]

I hate you "Read 10 more episodes on the APP" I hate you "This page looks better on the app" I hate you "Log in to app to view" I hate you "Have you tried the App" I hate you "Click to install app" I hate you "Continue in the app" I Hate the Slow Degradation of Desktop and Laptop functionality!!