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I don't understand why Tumblr hasn't been able to lift itself up amidst all of this

• pmdr 2y ago
  Didn't tumblr kinda die the day they banned porn?
• AlienRobot 2y ago
  Honestly, it's because Tumblr is too good for Twitter users. In my brief experience with Twitter, it felt suffocating. Every recommended tweet didn't see me as a person to share thoughts with but as some sort of prey, like they only wanted me for my attention, formulating tweets with open-ended questions and clickbait to bait me into engaging with them. On Tumblr, it's just people's blogs. I follow a guy who takes photos of birds. No sweating. No engagement metrics. Just cool birds. Check it out https://www.tumblr.com/doingitfortheexposure https://www.tumblr.com/doingitfortheexposure It's relaxing. I don't think Twitter users would get used to the peace of mind that Tumblr can offer them. In fact when I checked Bluesky, some new Brazilian users were talking about how there was no "trending topics" section in Bluesky. A part of Twitter's interface that I personally tried very hard to avoid looking at.
• insane_dreamer 2y ago
  Tumblr is for longer form; a completely different type of network