I may just have rediscovered the joy of using Tumblr while hunting a 3d model of meme man.
I like the company, I like their style, I like that they, a complete underdog in the business, bought a company that was once super expensive for really cheap and want to fix it up. It’s like Rich Rebuilds spontaneously, not knowing what he’d get into, buying 2 flooded Teslas for relatively little money and turning it into one functioning one.
It reminds me of the story of flickr and smugmug. It feels a lot like the right guys are at the steering wheel again, not a heartless corporation with a pure profit motive.
This once annoyed me a lot and still does a bit. Tumblr was one of the only places in which erotic and non-erotic content could live side by side as things to be enjoyed.
I am beginning to see good reasons for it, however. There may have been a dominance of porn on the platform that threatened to push out other content (although I am not entirely sure, it did seem all fine a few years before the ban).
Another obvious reason for the ban is muh think of the children, but my agreement is ... limited.
I like to surround myself with things and people that are nice, but it’s not always that easy for me. It’s nice to have a place for that.
I tend to collect things that I like to create such a place, but sometimes it feels like an unhealthy need to hoard. Maybe being on here will help with that, as I get past a scarcity mind set.
I also really like to share things that I like, which should be relatively nice and frictionless on here. It seems like a decent alternative to constantly annoying the same bunch of people that often enough doesn’t seem to quite understand me.
It’s also a really nice idea for me to exchange tumblr profiles as a “hey, these are things I like“, to get to know someone.
Embarassing posts, old and new
Looking through old posts I’m a bit embarassed by some, which is why I stopped after a few pages. I considered starting a new blog, but find it a but cooler to keep the history around.
Additionally I hope that I will not be too afraid to share things I think I might be embarrassed of in the future (something I do in other places, as I am mighty scared of the permanence of things on the internet and things coming back to me some how, some day, thanks, good early online education). What eases my mind a bit is that I think I never mentioned any directly identifying information here (but who knows?).
There are still so many annoying as fuck blog themes by people who want to be cute. It’s good that tumblr has moved post interaction elements from the theme to a top bar.
Annoyance of exotic/broken/slow themes aside: I really like that Tumblr allows people to use their own code. In the current time that’s just amazing. But I just wish there was a quick way to disable them - switching to/using the archive is a tad annoying as well.
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