Tumblr Thoughts
Oct. 4th, 2021 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unspeakablehorrorTumblr has been both a traumatic experience and deeply valuable for me. I chose to stop posting there because I just got tired of contending with its many issues, but there really is nothing else quite like it anywhere. I like the Pillowfort interface because it preserves some of the positive aspects of Tumblr while cutting out some of the more traumatic (because you have actual control over your own posts there while also having reblog ability), but it doesn't preserve *all* of the positive aspects of Tumblr because the truth of the matter is that some of those positives are also inextricably linked to the negatives, lol.
Like not being able to control who reblogs your post. This is terrible for obvious reasons, but it also means that you can find opinions of all sorts about a post directly in the reblogs of that same post. For people who know how to check sources and verify information, this gives them an easy way to check all sorts of claims. There have been many times I've seen a post fairly definitively disproved by some reblog or other, or been able to see the whole range of political opinions on an issue simply by checking the reblogs of a single post. There's enormous power in that, it just comes at a truly horrific price.
Like not being able to control who reblogs your post. This is terrible for obvious reasons, but it also means that you can find opinions of all sorts about a post directly in the reblogs of that same post. For people who know how to check sources and verify information, this gives them an easy way to check all sorts of claims. There have been many times I've seen a post fairly definitively disproved by some reblog or other, or been able to see the whole range of political opinions on an issue simply by checking the reblogs of a single post. There's enormous power in that, it just comes at a truly horrific price.