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Dahling you simply must read this book! It’s all about this devious little caterpillar who simply gorges himself on all manner of divine things

cpericardium

tiktoks-for-dead-pope

emtropi

the alien when it bursts out of someone‘s chest:

hjartasalt

zoeyhorse

i have to be the fastest horse girl in equestria

torstherapy

tinsnip

Per @spoonstrek

thekingkez

happy homestuck day, you filthy animals

hyraxia

Obsessed with this animal. The high rat

sexycraisinthanos

“AI art is okay if you’re just making shitposts”

Have you forgotten our roots

damnbluewires

reblogging this with my own masterpiece

pixelartpeach

ryukiki

phantomrose96

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olderthannetfic

No, no, and NO.

AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.

AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”

Owning the servers is a core tenet of OTW/AO3.

zz9pzza

Warming up a new database server….

elfwreck

When people involved with AO3 talk about “the cost of servers” they don’t mean “the cost to pay Amazon for space on their servers.” They mean, like, the cost to physically own them, and eventually replace them with new ones. And the operating costs to run them.

AO3 is not “in the cloud.” AO3 is stored on physical machines that the OTW owns.

While this is not a solution that can work for everyone who wants to deal with controversial content, it is why AO3ple sneer at alt-righters who complain about getting thrown off hosting platforms.

crowns-of-violets-and-roses

I Want Us to Own the Goddamned Servers

Because I want us to own the goddamned servers, ok? Because I want a place where we can’t be TOSed and where no one can turn the lights off or try to dictate to us what kind of stories we can tell each other.

lierdumoa

AO3 is what a website looks like when you seize the means of production.

jenroses

Please note that buying new servers and storage just became a shit load more expensive.

Because AI.

To paraphrase a comment on a Gamers Nexus video, the reason computer parts are getting so expensive is that a huge amount of RAM and storage that have not been produced yet were purchased with non-existent money to put in gpus and computers that have also not yet been produced to put in data centers that have not yet been built, to be powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist, to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.

So that’s fun. But it means that already owning computers that actually do the thing is SO MUCH BETTER than hiring other people to build more capacity to buy more computers to do the thing.

How bad is the RAM crisis? The price of ddr3, which is like 10-15yo tech, is going up. The price of DDR5 is now stupid expensive, 4+ times as expensive as it was a few months ago.

Mostly because there’s only one company in the world that is capable of generating the kind of chips needed and everyone uses that company because the modern world is a very precarious house of cards held together by tissue and string and we have a 50 foot toddler playing Godzilla with international trade.

Anyway AO3 is a goddamn miracle people need to respect.

rabbitindisguise

I think this is especially worth pointing out now because if they start fundraising more then this is most probably why they need money. If anyone’s mad that AO3 needs extra dollars then, remember to blame AI.

glowcowboy

does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

its-your-mind

the reblog map is all of us holding hands btw

beautifulterriblequeen

We are each other's night sky. No one is alone here.

dear-ao3

night sky continues to get brighter. theres always people here for you

shinigami-social

Made a painting of all of us “Holding Hands” <3

shinigami-social

New piece called “Artists Love The Update”

animentality

fox-moblin

Wouldn’t leave my mind sorry

tumblr

Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve.

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

cryptotheism

Not only will this ruin a core element of Tumblr, it will make it very difficult to tell where and when a post is getting traction. People are on this website because it isn't Twitter. Making it more like Twitter will turn people away.

cryptotheism

The last thing this website needs is a culture of catty twitter-style quote-retweets. This will actively encourage more toxic users to interact with your posts because their traffic will be more difficult to track.

txttletale

this actively sabotages the core benefit of tumblr over other platforms, the ability to have nuanced longform conversations. this change will make the website drastically worse

magi-magi-tamamoland-chan

the amount of goodwill you could earn with your userbase by saying "okay nvm" right now is astronomical

remedy-objectified

I just said this in the comments but the people need to know that a shitty decision is happening

"I do hope you realize how many artists or creators on this website love or need approval.

Imagine one week your post gets 2k likes 800 reblogs and 15 comments or something, as the ratio tends to be on here. Pretend that's average for your posts.

Imagine the next week, you post something, to find 50 likes, 5 reblogs, and 2 comments or whatever they're called.

Was this one worse? Did people just not find it?

You check, and nope. Reblog with someone you smiled at who said "OMG BLORBO FROM MY SHOWS!!!" Makes up for another 100 likes, 30 reblogs, and 5 comments, by account of most of the reblogs after that not adding anything and going right up to them.

Do you see how much this sucks?"