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Have you looked at Tumblr lately? It always sounds just like what people say they miss nowadays from social media. Its feed is chronological by default (for now
by phreack 4y ago
Have you looked at Tumblr lately? It always sounds just like what people say they miss nowadays from social media. Its feed is chronological by default (for now), and it does allow you to customize your own page in a lot of ways. I feel it's inevitable that it'll become a soulless ad space like all others eventually, but it's not there yet.
They're trying to monetize it with different approaches at the time like being able to boost a post's visibility without giving you any targeting tools, tipping, or giving another user a button to spawn crabs on the UI for a day.
Will it last? Probably not! But it's not a terribly awful dystopic place yet.
- washyourdishes 4y agoYeah I very much agree about tumblr. I’d plug mastodon as well. I think we basically do have social websites that work, are enjoyable and aren’t soulless. A big question is why are people complaining about one platform when they could be on another.
- kixiQu 4y agoSocial graph lock-in. :( I use Mastodon and love it, but all of my IRL [weak ties] are on FB and IG. [weak ties]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_ties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_ties
- Kye 4y agoTumblr puts an ad for the Tumblr app on your pages even if you put it under a domain. I don't mind plugging the platform I use, like the customized Posthaven plug on my blog, but I don't want an app install nag.