#redditor migration

[wertercatt]

The standoff between Reddit and Redditors has escalated

[gayshitanddadjokes]

What the fuck is this??????????

Folks: you CANNOT censor trigger tags. When you block a tag, it doesn't block other "spellings" of it. Writing it as "r@pe" or "r4p3" means that someone who has "tw rape" as a blocked tag will still see that post because you didn't wanna say the word rape. You are hurting people. Do not censor words, because people do not have those filtered out.

And honestly if you can't even write the word rape to protect other people then you probably aren't old/mature enough to discuss the topic.

[wertercatt]

Op doesn't want more followers, sad lmao

Do NOT feed the Reddit refugees!!!

They must learn to hunt on their own, lest they become dependent on the native Tumblr lifeform for food and shelter!!!

[timeflow]

good evening reddit users, welcome to the website. not seen one of these that tells you how to make this website bearable so here goes

starting off with dashboard settings you want to turn off endless scrolling (it slows down the website after a while of scrolling), turn off shorten long posts because one of the main things about this website is the total lack of a character limit (as an alternative to this setting, you can press j to skip to the next post on the dashboard if the current one is kind of long). turning on timestamps is convenient because it allows you to check when a post was made (don't get me wrong: this website absolutely LOVES reblogging old posts, but there are times when it's worth checking if a post has very old news in it)

turn off best stuff first right away. one of the main reasons cited for joining tumblr is because "there is no algorithm". this is not entirely true, we have one but we routinely turn off anything algorithmic that staff adds. turning off best stuff first means your dashboard will be reverse chronological no matter what, and turning off based on your likes and stuff in your orbit will get rid of the rest of the algorithmically-recommended content that appears on your dashboard

following tags is nice because you will occasionally see posts with tags you follow sprinkled into your dashboard. this is considered good because it's almost always recent, I personally recommend turning on include followed tag posts and just following a bunch of random tags that you think could be interesting (characters, media, topics, whatever)

this one's a more personal thing but I would absolutely turn off any community labels because tumblr staff has recently been just putting a bunch of random posts under this despite being entirely sfw. if you ACTUALLY want to filter content, then go to filtered tags:

unlike the community labels which are put arbitrarily by staff, tags are put on by the actual users and so you can MUCH more reliably filter out content you don't want to see by putting filtered tags. this also works for any kind of content unlike the community labels, meaning you can just filter out stuff that you don't want to see (a particular character, a particular piece of media, a certain topic, anything you want really)

turn on custom theme immediately. the standard view of tumblr.com/url will give people who are not logged in a forced login wall, meanwhile url.tumblr.com will not. by doing this you also get access to your post archive at url.tumblr.com/archive, which lets you look through your posts more easily (the search function is awful). the main benefit of this, however, is that you get to have a custom look to your blog: going to edit theme brings up a menu that allows you to customize your css, add pages to your tumblr blog, etc. all very useful stuff

it's also worth taking the time to consider whether or not you leave your liked posts and list of blogs you follow public (most people have likes turned off, following is also commonly turned off but I personally don't care about others seeing who I follow)

turn off the let people blaze your posts. blaze basically allows you to pay money to show a post to a random group of people by paying money, suffices to say that allowing others to blaze your posts without your consent will inevitably lead to one of your personal posts getting blazed by some prick and now hundreds of people have seen it

asks are one of the main ways of interacting with blogs so absolutely turn them on. whether you allow anons is your choice, anonymity allows people to say nice things without feeling embarrassed about how everyone knows who said that, but it also allows people to send hateful stuff with no consequence.

submissions are like whatever. I personally leave them on but in my 5 years of having this blog I've been submitted to twice.

to close off this post I'll leave my personal thoughts on reblog etiquette:

reblogging is great. reblog the fuck out of anything. does the post amuse you slightly? reblog it. go wild

that being said please don't put anything in your reblogs unless it's like a really important comment. your comment will be immortalized forever if someone reblogs the post from you and on popular posts I have to constantly go back a couple years to get rid of an annoying comment like "LOL THIS IS SO FUNNY" because that person didn't realize that their addition was wholly unnecessary

if you DO want to add something to say your thoughts on the post in a quiet voice that doesn't get permanently added onto the original, consider talking in the tags of your reblog. this is considered nicer since when the post is reblogged from you your tags are not going to stick around. there is also this process known as "peer review" in which if your tags are sufficiently funny one of your followers (or sometimes a random person browsing the notes of the post) will screenshot/copy and paste your tags into a reblog, which is a much more natural way of having your comment added into the post

tags are also nice to use or organizational purposes. clicking on a post with a certain tag on your blog will show you every post with that tag on your blog allowing you to find posts later, alternatively you can go to url.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/[insert tag here] to a similar effect.

that's all I have to say on this subject. have fun on our glorious website

edit: oh yeah also unfollow staff. it will make you look normal 👍

[thenerdyindividual]

A tip for Reddit Refugees (and anyone else who might need to hear it) from someone who has been on this hellsite for 10+ years. Don’t worry about cringe!

I know overall the internet has become increasingly hostile to genuine expressions of emotion, but we don’t do that here. This website was built on the backs of weird teenagers who could not be chill about their favorite fandom. And while most of us have matured a bit, we’re all still here. We’re all still incapable of being chill about our recent obsessions.

So reblog at will! Seriously, if you like it reblog it. If you wanna write, draw, or post about the most niche ship in the most niche fandom, do it! Don’t worry about whether your followers will think you’re corny. Don’t worry about being too genuine. We’re all corny, cringey, weirdos here.

And if someone tries to tell you you’re being cringe, ask them what they’re doing at the devil’s sacrament.

[schermit]

Just putting good vibes out into the universe since I came from Reddit and this place already feels so much more welcoming and friendly and posting actually seems like fun so if any other Reddit lurkers are out there I hope you have a good day

[yogodyolive]

bro, the tumblr users go from being one of the most top 10 endangered species, to this now being overrun with invasive species

we are literally repeating history.... Reddit: Americans Twitter: The British Tumblrinas (here before the migration): natives

we're being colonised

[paddysnuffles]

A belated list of things Redditors should know about Tumblr

The Ides of March (March 15th) is basically a Tumblr holiday. Get ready for Ceasar references around that time of year.

Folks on Tumblr absolutely love dragging and joking about this guy called Ea-Nasir. He’s a guy from 3,800 years ago who was basically a con man and is the subject of the world’s oldest-known customer service complaint letter. 

Always tag your posts for heavy topics that might trigger someone

Don’t use euphemisms for heavy topics when tagging your posts – this makes it hard for people to avoid the topics that trigger them.

You can blacklist topics that trigger or bother you.

You can block people you don’t want to interact with. You don’t need to feel bad about it or have a deep reason for it. You get to curate your experience on here and you don’t owe anybody an explanation.

Go to your settings and change it so that you can see the date a post was blogged. This comes in really useful for when you see news articles.

You can have as many blogs as you want! Some people have a mixed-topic blog that they consider their personal blog and then have themed blogs for their interests while others just have the one blog. Do whatever feels comfortable for you.

[jay-wasstuff]

[fj-is-a-dumbass]

honestly, tumblr is the most social social media

so it's been about a week since i've moved from reddit to this god forsaken hell hole (tumblr) and like

i love it

i'm not going back to reddit

my RtT (redditor to tumblrina) transition is complete

i never thought i would say this but this social media (if you can call tumblr one) is actually doing wonders for my mental health

no more doom scrolling

actually interacting with humans that are just as weird as me (feel free to talk to me)

not being afraid of being myself

yeah...

i'm home.

[orionsangel86]

You know what I love? In the past few days Tumblr suddenly seems a lot more active. Like there's more engagement and more mutual support and it weirdly seems nicer just in general vibe.

I think the reddit migration is a really good thing. Its breathing life back into this site that the twitter migration almost destroyed.

Well done redditors. Thanks for adapting and engaging and being just really awesome active newbies. It's lovely to have you here. :)

[ridragon]

Reddit knows that they can force reopen subs with their scabs but you guys know it's not gonna matter if people don't use em. Stand strong reddit people, don't let them crush you!

[ebonylark]

MS Paint metaphor

[the-rat-in-your-wall]

Me telling a stupid story because I'm feeling sentimental or something:

I used to very heavily use tumblr in middle/high school, and I stopped using when tumblr was left a husk of itself after the famous porn ban. Eventually, I found my way to reddit and I followed my little hobby blogs and filled my eye balls with fish, rats, embroidery, isopods, dumbass people telling dumbass stories so we can tell them they're dumbasses, etc. (we all know what reddit is).

Anyways, for the past couple of years, I've been trying to get back into using tumblr. I missed the site, but my dash was full of shit I didn't care about from my fandom days, and many of the blogs I used to follow were either abandoned or unrecognizable to me. Eventually, I unpolluted my dash, but tumblr had changed, and I changed, and I didn't know how to find the people I liked anymore.

I was slowly getting better at it, and then the reddit migration happened, and seemingly overnight, the site was filled with people again. People who were also trying to adjust to this foreign platform, except it was slightly less foreign to me. It's strange to both be part of the reddit migration and also not. Like, I get to giggle at the redditors not understanding the Ides of March and then in the next post get updated on all the shit I missed out on in my absence from this site. Hell, even when I was on tumblr in high school, I clung so close to my fandom blogs that I didn't even see what was happening elsewhere on the site.

Basically, the reddit migration has made using this app much more enjoyable for this old-time tumblr user, and I'd like to thank everyone who has been a part of that.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

If you stay very still, and avoid eye contact, the redditors will come up to you on all fours and eat right out of your hand.

[breezingwing]

The biggest difference between reddit and tumblr

Is that if you comment "you two look cute together, now kiss" on a reddit comment chain because two random users did something silly together, this is meant as a jab / joke and those users are _not_ expected to start making out sloppy style like the tumblr (rule)s say.