#reddit migration

[catherine-clover]

How many people do you follow?

No one. I just scroll the For You page, liking things I like. A true algomaxxer.

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More than thirty. My timeline is functionally infinite.

Voting ended onApr 21, 2024

Edit from the future: well, this is still at the top of #reddit migration, so might as well pass on what I've learned to others.

Here's how to become a Tumbler

Find a hill

Fall to the ground in such a manner that angular momentum overtakes usual control of your body

Click the reblog button because that was a funny joke

Upvotes are reblogs. Likes are for saving really good posts, or just for something good that you can't share. Reblog more than you like to keep the site alive. There is almost no Algorithm on here, likes do almost nothing

Never, ever, ever underestimate how terminally online active Tumblr users are

Going viral is bad on this website. Your notifications will be ruined forever

No one cares how many followers you have

Change your profile picture immediately or everyone will assume you're a bot and block you

I'm stealing a lot of these tips secondhand but I promise I haven't read any in at least a year. They just came at a very pivotal time ok? I rember

#196 is your friend

Open your settings

Disable endless scrolling

Enable timestamps

Disable best stuff first

Search something you're interested in

Not too specific though

Tumblr search is the worst in the business

Find the most popular tag for that interest

Reblog posts from the tag

If someone makes a lot of good posts, follow them

Make some posts to the tag

If you and someone else both follow each other, you two are mutuals. Mutuals are treasure. Value their bond

Always reblog good art

Always reblog heritage posts

I like your shoelaces

Strange Æons killed the Muppet Joker at DashConTwo in the Ball Pit

more milk per milk

The queer tags are full of porn

DashCon was the greatest failure

DashCon was the greatest success

Our website's CEO is a dick too :/

Discourse is Hell. Do not involve

Everyone loves @charl0ttan

DNIs are not worthy of respect

Unless it's minors dni that one is actually important for legal reasons. Do do that one. Don't endanger 18+ accounts

Block or shut up

Do not feed the trolls

Homestuck will never die

You will see many posts here that you previously only ever saw in screenshots

Have fun

Good luck

[i-am-totally-not-a-lizard]

One thing I love about Tumblr that wasn't a thing on Reddit is that I can just write whatever the fuck text post I want. No titles. No putting text on images. No algorithms or karma. Just fuckin splatter your mind onto the screen and people will see it. Like god intended.

[eggshellsareneat]

Alright, I think I like tumblr now.

A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.

That was on July 7th.

Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.

On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.

There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.

But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.

99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.

None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.

And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.

You really, truly, cannot get this on any other website.

[newtsfrogstoads]

Going from being an introverted lurker on reddit to trying to post my own stuff here is so wild. I keep typing out a post, deleting it, then retyping because I think it's not good enough but then I look at other posts and why am I so worried?

It's like I'm at a fancy Italian restaurant and keep glancing around the room to see which hand people use to pick up the forks. But then I realize that everyone is shoveling spaghetti into their mouths using their bare hands and I'm like ah okay so I'm clearly overthinking this

[quohotos]

I love how you can put literally anything in the tags except for commas. You can have whole-ass ideas and thoughts and messages in there... Just not structured and coherent ones.

[bondboy8]

My friend sent me this screencap from reddit and I can't get over how normal this reply would feel on tumblr

[citrusmillie]

Tumblr makes sense to me bc if i see something i like i get excited and hit the button to show other people and theres no weird unspoken social conventions my autistic brain doesnt understand. I can literally sit here and reblog 150 niche shitposts about harvest mice in an hour just bc they make me happy and i dont have to explain myself to anyone and i'll actually *gain* followers instead of just being called weird and downvoted or whatever its so cool

[seawaveleo]

lovin the dichotomy here

anyway tumblr número 1 campeão do mundo staff stop changing the mobile layout and get rid of tumblr live