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The Death of the Digital Ecosystem: Why Decoupling Notes Destroys Tumblr
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For years, the total note count on a post served as a universal metric of a piece of content's impact. Whether a user liked the original post or a reblog fifteen branches deep, that engagement flowed back to the source. This ensured that the original artist, writer, or editor received the full credit for the viral success of their work.
Under this new system, engagement is trapped within the specific reblog a user happens to see on their dashboard. If a massive, high-traffic blog reblogs a piece of art from a small creator, every like and reblog that occurs through that larger account stays with them. The original creator is left with a stagnant note count on their own dashboard while their work generates thousands of interactions for someone else.
Erasure of Creator Visibility
Instead of seeing one post with 10,000 notes, a creator may now have to hunt through dozens of different reblog chains to find where the conversation is actually happening.
If the notes no longer flow back to the original post, the creator loses the ability to see who is enjoying their work, what the tags say, and how the community is responding.
On a platform where engagement often dictates visibility, splitting that engagement into tiny, unlinked fractions makes it significantly harder for original works to gain momentum compared to the high-reach blogs that reblog them.
Incentivizing the "Big Blog" Monopoly
This system rewards accounts that have already established a large following at the direct expense of the smaller accounts that actually produce the content. It transforms reblogging from a method of sharing into a method of acquisition.
When a reblog functions as its own independent post with its own note count, the incentive to click through to the original source disappears. The platform is transitioning from a collaborative ecosystem into a standard social media feed where the person who posts the content lastânot the person who made itâreaps the rewards.
Impact on Collaborative Conversations
Tumblrâs unique culture is built on the reblog chain: a chronological, evolving conversation. By allowing users to like or reblog "any part" of the chain as an independent entity, the platform is breaking the narrative thread.
If engagement is siloed into specific branches, the incentive to add to a conversation is replaced by an incentive to simply own a piece of the engagement. This change doesn't encourage conversation. It encourages the commodification of individual posts within a chain, making it harder for the original voice to ever be heard over the noise of the rebloggers.
The Disincentive to Create
Perhaps the most damaging aspect of this update is the psychological toll on the creative community. When the platform actively diverts credit and engagement away from the source, it destroys the motivation to share original work at all.
For many, the reward for posting is seeing how far their work travels. If that travel is now invisible or attributed to others, the labor of creating becomes thankless.
This system makes creators want to share nothing. If the platform is built to harvest a creator's effort for the benefit of curator blogs, the logical response is to stop providing the raw material. I am one leaning into this category. Without us creators, the curator blogs have nothing to curate.
By making it harder to protect and track one's own work, the platform is effectively telling creators that their presence is secondary to the conversations happening around their work: conversations they may no longer even be able to find.
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.Â
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, youâll 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 â 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 â stay tuned!
Hey guys go send in your feedback on how terrible this is as soon as possible. We are witnessing the twitter-fication of this hellsite. No contributor wants ârecognitionâ from a reblog. This is down right disgusting and Iâm shocked this got through every single person thatâs employed by tumblr
Go send feedback im so serious
Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your
Y'all HAVE to fill in the feedback form. Please. If you enjoy seeing fanart, GIFs, writing, fanfics, anything that's creative on this site, you need to fill the form in and leave your outrage on there.
This is killing the notes sent to the ogs. The original creators aren't getting a TON of notifications and feedback and interactions because of these new "chains"
im so fucking scared i'm going to throw up. its not just the court decision. read this, if you dare.
In the short term, this is not as dangerous as an outright ban on estrogen. If implemented and then combined with other methods of suppressi
Unlike the vast majority of anti-trans legislation, hate groups are attempting to pass these restrictions without the public at large knowing they exist. This secrecy is far more insidious, and needs to be immediately addressed.
If you want to help, the two things that will make the most impact are SPREADING AWARENESS, and participating in PUBLIC COMMENT while it is still open.
âŒïžLINK TO FDA COMMENT PAGEâŒïž
Document: FDA-2025-P-7321
As of the time this article was written, ALL public comments were from hate groups in support of this registry. Every single comment in opposition will help.
Disclaimer: This article is very guilty of intersex erasure, despite the fact that intersex people of all ages would be affected by these regulations the same way trans women are. However, as this is the most comprehensive and direct article currently available, it should still be widely distributed, for the sake of trans women, nonbinary people, and intersex people who will all be affected should it pass.
masks and helmets that hides someone's face in such a way that they become the face themselves my beloved
these are all creatures to me
Angel of War, angular and strange, gleaming silver and gold, Angel of Wonder, pure and one-eyed, looking to stars new and old, Angel of Harvest, simple and hidden, bring nature's sweetness to all, Angel of Health, mysterious and fine, beacon when life starts to fall, Angel of the Deep, crooked and cage-like, guide us across the sea, Angel of Solace, protect us from evil, lead us to where we are free.
Was inspired by the previous post a while back, and had been working on this on and off for a long while.
You can see the full-resolution versions on My Patreon.
I love all of these. The angel of the the deep's wings are canvas, held up by an anchor. The angel of war's wings are blades, and its shield is a coffin. The angel of solace is a mutant, its arms deforming into wings. Geiger counter in hand, it guides us through the danger only it knows. Was this angel once a man? Corrupted now beyond hope, he can at least save others from the same fate.
this shit is so incredibly cool that i cannot and refuse to attempt to properly articulate it
Darling~
i'm so exhausted and tired by constant Mature Language Mature Thoughts Mature Content flags and having to censor perfectly normal words and having to think twice about everything i say and what platform it can go on in case somebody could see it and feel things and waaaah
like. fucking hell
i'm not a mormon. i'm not an evangelical christian. i'm not a self-loathing mid-western american person who belongs to any cults. i don't despise and loathe the concept of female sexuality or women existing. i don't feel ashamed or disgusted by sexuality or sex, and i refuse to
meanwhile every goddamn website i use is trying desperately to train me into exactly that sort of shame and self-loathing and fear of sex and sexuality, and bodily autonomy, and personal physical empowerment
skewing the meaning of "consent" to mean. if someone sees a picture they don't like
being horny is good. sexual and sexy art and literature are good. i like to feel sexual desire and to be sexually desired. i like sex. i like sexuality. i like "mature themes". i don't need to click a consent box to see every single potentially mature post one-by-one. i feel like i'm going insane
Finally figured out how to permanently disable google assistant on phone
You can't just post this and not tell us how man
Instead of being in settings its in the google app. Also, google, not chrome. Icon is a G, not the circle thing. Click on your pfp to open a menu
From there, go Settings > Gemini > Digital Assistants > Switch to Google Assistant. This disables Gemini, google's AI assistant, and switches you back to the old one. We aren't done yet.
Go back to Settings. From there, we go Settings > Google Assistant > scroll to find General > Google Assitant on/off > turn it off
They really tried their best to make it a pain, but you can eventually disable it. Holding the power button on your phone still pulls up a menu and asks you to turn it back on, but this is the least intrusive you can make it.
Applies to all non-apple phones afaik. For sure Samsungs and Pixels but idrk about others
Edit: thank you my friend @/teeth-kid for confirming that this also works on Motorola
I thank you, my wife thanks you, and as for the reblog chain, that goes without saying.
I learned there was an outage because of you truly the weirdest 20 minutes of my life as I scroll and realize something has happened just seeing everyone being like "we're back" and I was just like BACK FROM WHAT
LUCKY YOU I WAS HERE WHEN IT WENT OUT I WAS ON TWITTER.COM REFRESHING THEIR PAGE TO SEE ANY UPDATES ON WHAT HAPPENED IT TOOK THEM AN HOUR TO ACKNOWLEDGE US
people were threatening themselves and others in their comments it was insane, don't even get me started on what went down on downdetector
i love this community ngl happy we didn't die
huuuughhhhh yahoo selling scraped data from tumblr to AI sloo probably uughhhwaaauuwghhhhhh
Parent company Automattic will reportedly sell Tumblr content to OpenAI and MidJourney for training data. Here's how you can opt out.
bwwaaaughhhhhhgggh enshittification continues
this is what you're looking for to opt out!!!
It's under Visibility, noy Privacy like I assumed at first.
Thank you đ
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There is a 60-day public comment period ahead of any formal implementation.
#its real. you should definitely comment. you do not need to provide a valid email address.
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HOW TO GET YOUR ACCOUNT BACK FROM RANDOM NIGHTMARE SURPRISE TERMINATION!!!!!!!!!!!
I woke up on sunday morning to find that my whole account had been terminated out of the blue. VERY DISTRESSING!!! if this has just happened to you, YOU CAN GET YOUR ACCOUNT RESTORED. the best part is, everything remains intact! your messages, asks, followers, posts, etc. don't fret!! they restored my account only a day after it had been terminated. usually, it takes one to two weeks for a response. HERE'S WHAT I DID!!!
it's important that you send a SUPPORT TICKET. don't randomly email them!!! go to https://www.tumblr.com/support and choose "terminated account" as your reason.
include the email of the account that got terminated. this makes it easier for them to recover it! if you can't send it from that email, just include it in the message.
include the following: to the best of your knowledge, you have re-read the site rules and you haven't broken any site guidelines. state how important your account is to you, and stress how thankful you are for their help in recovering it. BE POLITE. EVEN IF YOU'RE UPSET OR PISSED OFF!!!! it significantly ups your chances of being listened to. I included the phrase "I'm sure you understand the importance of this" which is corporatespeak for "FIX THIS OR SO HELP ME GOD" and that seemed to get their attention.
you can also @ support on tumblr with the issue, and @ them on another site (e.g. twitter). there's a chance they'll see and respond quicker! cover all your options. the reddit for tumblr account termination is no longer active so don't bother with that.
if they don't respond within a few days, reply to the confirmation email they sent after you sent in your request. follow up! ask for updates! reiterate the urgency of the situation! make sure you're not responding to an address with "noreply" in it!
REALLY HOPE THIS HELPS!!!! all is not lost you just gotta be STERN AND POLITE. it's terrifying to have your entire account vanish overnight but there is always hope okay. love you good luck
UPDATE: I had to do this whole thing AGAIN because my art blog ALSO got terminated out of the blue and they got back to me the very next day. this shit works!!!! I think the main factor is following up by replying to their confirmation email because as soon as I did that they got back to me.
Can confirm this is how I tackled it when this blog was randomly terminated a while back; I had to do this before. I got my whole blog back, which is good, because I think this one is over a decade old by now.
We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.
I hate having to post political posts like this nut he we are again. Anybody from the UK wanna sign this. Folks from outside the UK maybe share it?
PLEASE sign this if you're in the UK
And in the meantime, many have recommended getting a VPN, too.
Non-UK folk, help this get more reach if you can!
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Elizabeth MacDonough doesnât give fiery speeches on the Senate floor. She doesnât pound podiums, tweet clapbacks, or beg for airtime on cable news. Most people couldnât pick her out of a photo lineup. But this week, she did more to derail Donald Trumpâs legislative fever dream than any Democrat in Congress. With nothing but a binder, a brain, and a spine forged from 230 years of procedural precedent, she calmly gutted the âBig, Beautiful Billâ â and sent the Republican Party into a frothing, incandescent rage.
Hereâs the part that should terrify the GOP: sheâs not even elected. Sheâs the Senate Parliamentarian, the nonpartisan referee responsible for interpreting the arcane rulebook that governs the worldâs most dysfunctional deliberative body. She doesnât write laws. She doesnât vote. She doesnât grandstand. Her job is simple: enforce the rules, no matter whoâs in charge. And when Republicans tried to use reconciliation â a fast-track process meant for tweaking budgets â to shove through a far-right wishlist of land seizures, healthcare rollbacks, and anti-trans cruelty, she read the fine print and dropped the hammer.
The âBig, Beautiful Billâ was supposed to be Trumpâs magnum opus: a tax-slashing, Medicaid-burning, land-devouring beast of a bill that would reshape America in his image. It included everything from selling off millions of acres of federal public land to states and private developers, to gutting Medicaid for low-income families, immigrants, and trans people, to defunding Planned Parenthood and hacking away at environmental protections like they were weeds in a billionaireâs backyard. It was grotesque. It was rushed. And it was entirely dependent on sliding past Senate rules without a fight.
Elizabeth MacDonough was the fight. She reviewed the billâs contents and ruled â piece by piece â that major provisions violated the Byrd Rule, which bars unrelated ideological junk from hitching a ride on budget bills. The land sell-off? Not budgetary. Out. The Medicaid provider tax cap? Out. The bans on gender-affirming care, immigrant coverage, and ACA subsidies? Out. The GOP was left holding a gutted husk, their legislative trophy reduced to a few tax cuts and a pile of redacted dreams.
This wasnât sabotage. This was MacDonough doing her job â the job sheâs held since 2012, appointed under a Democratic majority, and respected by both parties until it became inconvenient. She is the Senateâs quiet guardian of process, a civil servant who doesnât answer to polls, Super PACs, or social media mobs. Her loyalty is to the rules â even as the people around her treat those rules like a hotel minibar. She doesnât flinch. She doesnât yield. She simply reads the law and applies it, with the precision of a scalpel and the force of a freight train.
And oh, how the GOP hates her for it.
Mike Lee, who tried to shove his public lands fire sale into the bill like it was a foreclosure listing, is already scrambling to rewrite the language and sneak it back in. Trump, fuming from whatever taxpayer-funded golf course heâs currently defiling, is screaming about âdeep state rule tyrants.â Senate Majority Leader John Thune is getting asked uncomfortable questions about whether itâs time to âreviewâ the Parliamentarianâs role â a polite way of saying, âCan we fire her for being smarter than us?â
Because thatâs the rub. They didnât lose because the Democrats outmaneuvered them. They didnât lose because of public pressure or media backlash. They lost because a woman they barely understand said, quite plainly, âYou canât do that.â And when they asked why, she handed them the rulebook. And when they tried to argue, she pointed to precedent. And when they blustered, she didnât even blink.
Elizabeth MacDonough has no political agenda. Thatâs what makes her so dangerous to people who do. She exists outside their theater. She answers to no party. And yet, she is currently one of the most powerful people in Washington â not because she makes the laws, but because she refuses to let anyone break them.
So no, she didnât kill the Big, Beautiful Bill. The GOP killed it themselves â by trying to use budget procedure as a battering ram for authoritarian fantasy. MacDonough simply told the truth. And in 2025, that might be the most radical thing anyone in government can do.
Let the Republicans rant. Let them plot her removal. Let them rewrite their monstrosities and try again. But remember this: when the bulldozers were revving, when the Medicaid cuts were inked, and when Trumpâs wrecking ball of a bill was barreling toward the American people â it wasnât a senator who stopped it. It wasnât a protest. It was a woman with a binder and a backbone.
We see you, Elizabeth. And we thank you.
FUCK YES, ELIZABETH!!!!
Corrected link to this piece from Closer to the Edge
Secondary link to a piece in USA Today
MacDonoughâs Wikipedia entry
Let's be clear:
She hasn't actually stopped it fully.
They put a lot of shit back in the bill.
The Democrats have to now raise a point of order to challenge it, and the Republicans would have to get 60 votes to push them forward.
Senator Lee's public lands sell-off is gone, but they put the trans care Medicaid ban back in to try to dare Democrats in "purple" states to vote in favor of trans health care.
It makes me sick to my stomach to think they might peel 7 Democrats off and make this work... but... it's unfortunately possible.
Yes, there is a victory here, but it isn't dead yet. The fight isn't over yet.
Call your Senators, y'all.
THE ENTIRE WEST IS BEING PUT UP FOR SALE AND I AM BEGGING YOU TO CALL YOUR SENATORS
Trumpâs budget bill has many, many things in it, but buried amongst it is the MILLIONS OF ACRES OF PUBLIC LAND FOR SALE.
This is the entirety of the Arizona state forests, the entire Cascades mountain range. Swathes of pristine desert around the national parks in Utah. On the doorstep of Jackson Hole.
THIS BILL IS BIG, BUT IT CAN BE AMENDED AND ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT PASS AS IS please.
If you have ever enjoyed the wilderness, we stand to lose it all forever.
CALLING your senators - NOT JUST IN THE WEST. ALL SENATORS, is CRUCIAL.
Outdoor alliance has a great resource for reaching out.
The Senateâs spending package could offer up nearly 300 million acres of public lands for saleâa vast area that includes nearly 100,000 mile
I donât have a huge following but please, everywhere I have ever loved, the forests I grew up playing in, the land I got married on, is all at risk and I am begging.
This would be catastrophic. Please do whatever you can to stop this bill.