hi, love your blog. but wondering, if it's light reason like different interests why not just unfollow? blocking means these ppl can't follow you and see your content and that's kinda harsh on them. still your choice in the end, just making sure you understand understand unfollow/block
Hi there, dear anonymous anon.
Believe me, I understand the difference between unfollow and block.
I follow right now in this profile like 16? Maybe 20 blogs. I know who I follow and why I follow all of them.
But even if I try to follow only people I know and I like their content Tumblr is a little piece of social media that tries and tries again to make me be more time in it. And for that it usually show me other blogs I don't follow in my main page, Tumblr's algorithm thinks that these blogs are something I like but I am rarely interested in them. No matter how many times I said to Tumblr "I am not interested in this", Tumblr still showing me things I don't want to see. So, if I see something I don't want to see once, and then other, and then other, etc. The only tool this platform offer me not to see that again it is to block, sadly. For that reason I said in the answer about the block that I usually see things I dont want too, because Tumblr show me what it wants.
In Twitter, I have the silence. That profile can see me and check me meanwhile I never see its post no matter I check the #, its friends or my main page. This is wonderful and I use it a lot more than block since it is helpful with this kind of problem Tumblr has... But Tumblr only offer me the option of blocking. And sorry if this upset people but as you could see when a person I had blocked asked me in a secondary profile, anon, it is not a big problem neither harsh on them. Tumblr let you enter the blogs and see their post even if you are not logged so literally everybody can see my content no matter how many profiles of their I have blocked. I know that and for that reason I dont see blocking like a big thing here. I block so what I see is what I want to see and so I dont have to see things I dont want too.
If I had or if I knew another option, I would use it. But, for what I know, it doesn't exists so I will do as I please, using the methods I choose and no matter what you want.
I understand you are not asking this in a bad way but it made me a lot of fun to read the "making sure you understand understand unfollow/block" as if at some point I had followed any of the accounts that I have blocked. I never followed many profiles because I always wanted to have my relation with social media as light as I can and because I want to be as far as I can of negative shits when I am here. I know a lot of profiles follow a lot of other profiles and are happy with it but I couldn't, I know it because I did that too and I can't handle.
And well, as I said, I know this method is not perfect but is the better I know to enjoy this place.