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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
yourlocalluciferian
relaxxattack

“oh they’re not taking away chronological dashboard, well everything’s okay then” they also said in the post they’re making reblogs collapsed (like comments on twitter) so you won’t see the full conversation in a post. they also won’t get rid of tumblr live despite it being an annoying and cancerous data-miner that isn’t legal in much of the world. they won’t even let you opt out of tumblr live for more than seven days. they implemented a terrible photo viewer that mimics tiktok and makes it so you can’t zoom in on images. they took away the ability to view prev tags. they’re making it so you have to sign in with your email to view almost any thing on tumblr. they’ve already made it so you have to sign in to send asks, even on anon. they’re slowly phasing out custom blog themes.

the things that make tumblr at all usable and favored by us– the older web blog features, the anonymity– that is still being taken away. it HAS been being taken away for some time now. i am urging you people to reveiwbomb the tumblr app. force them to acknowledge that users do not like these changes.

astraltrickster

Let me stress: Collapsing reblogs would turn tumblr into a completely different site.

A massive chunk of our site culture - arguably our entire site culture itself - is based on the collaborative nature of posts. The fact that many posts are chains of relevant additions or Bits done by multiple people is the appeal. This is not an “outdated format” or an inconvenience, it is a core function.

Also I can’t help but suspect that this partial walkback is misleading. Okay, so we still get to have a chronological dashboard, but are we going to be allowed to keep it as our default tab? Because new accounts sure fucking can’t set as such.

headspace-hotel

Reblog chains are literally what makes tumblr posts tumblr posts

q oh well if it dies it dies ive made peace with the fact that tumblr wont be safe forever
catwaifuwu
cinna-bunnie

I heard cohost is pretty similar to tumblr and made an account :3 there's an activation period of like a day or so before you can actually post but y'all should check it out. I love their privacy policy and what they stand for overall?

Here's my account.

Here's some homepage screenshots

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They also allow nsfw unambiguously btw.

cinna-bunnie

make an account here and follow me >:o i am queueing this for multiple times a day :3 I'd like to get at least a small circle established over there. but would love to see some of my favorite faces (⁠〒⁠﹏⁠〒⁠)

i am probably going to try tapering off my tumblr usage over time and either fully or mostly transition to another platform instead of dealing with All Of This lol.

mandokero-eboy

I have been using and promoting Cohost for a while now. I have decided to use Tumblr for the time being but for some reason every time I try a new website it self destructs so it's nice having Cohost as an option.

In my opinion the reason the original tumblrapocalypse was as devastating as it was is that we didn't have an alternative lined up but today we literally do. Use Cohost!

It's literally just Tumblr right now and the only downside is that everyone is here and not there.

Besides it's great to have it as a backup because you can tell staff here that if they keep up their shit there's literally a company already entering the market and vying for their exact userbase.

cinna-bunnie

HEY, YOU, FOLLOWER THAT IS READING THIS

make an account on cohost Right Now and follow me there. Make cohost a backup option At Least!! Don't get caught at the moment tumblr finally implodes, make your backups now and help start building out communities elsewhere.

YES they don't have an app, but hey? NOT HAVING TO DEAL WITH THE APP STORE IS A PRETTY GOOD WAY TO ALLOW NSFW UNAMBIGUOUSLY.

Just?? bookmark the site, pin it to your home screen. they have literally NO ads and NO tracking and it's very legit; made with love for a bygone era by disillusioned programmers who hate the way corporations run things.

Download a throwaway browser you only use to go on cohost if you want, just SIGN UP FOR COHOST. I'm shouting this from the rooftops every time Tumblr does something dumb and people say there's nowhere else to go. GO TO COHOST. Cohost is going to be closer to tumblr than tumblr will be in like half a year from now. Tumblr locked itself into its own demise DESPITE everyone's please and frequent feedback. GO TO COHOST. The owners created a nonprofit and the site runs on donations, they do not have shareholders to please and infinite growth to chase after. COHOST COHOST COHOST. GET ON IT. GET YOUR FRIENDS ON IT.

cinna-bunnie

they also let you play with css in your posts and have a dedicated tag called "css crimes" full of stuff you can interact with made by other people.

my favorite so far, just to give a small taste of what u come across on there, is this dude who worked for BBC and made their login portal.

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check out the site in question here, click on the laptop and start typing.

here's some other visually fun examples

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This one's interactive and after it changes to the second image the little icon joyfully bounces up and down

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I'm trying SO hard to tell y'all there are GOOD THINGS on cohost, cohost is GOOD.

If you want to have certain things changed or make suggestions too there's a place to submit that and it doesn't feel like you're just throwing it into the void. The devs are a lot more personable too since, y'know, it's not a business. Seeing them [reblogged] onto your dash can be pretty funny too. I'm not gonna stop boosting cohost and when I have enough mutuals over there and people I follow i Will be using tumblr a lot less.

ordinarymothman

also there aren't any real government entities on there like on twitter so you can do shit like this

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same @ as here
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autumnj0y

I’m both pro herbal medicine and pro vaccination because you can treat burns with aloe vera juice and sore throats with lavender infused honey but you can’t rid a country of polio with plants. 

made-of-love-and-stars

THIS.

alandofdawnandstarlight

Don’t forget kids, jewelweed is a natural counteragent to poison ivy rashes but it won’t do shit against whooping cough

dovewithscales

Mint for nausea, valerian and chamomile for sleep, antibiotics for fucking infections.

just-mythyk

educational and salty. i like it.

katpile
hoezier

Do you write music with the view of being politically active and delivering a message or does it just happen and the rest follows? 

hoezier

#this is a perspective I’ve only seen from people who truly think broadly and sympathetically about life#like he’s literally right I’m sorry and people who aren’t white or cis or straight learn so so SO early that your existence is political#not inherently but because white cishet men have crafted society in a way it’s impossible for it not to be#and ignoring that isn’t going to make you ascend above it god I’m so tired of having to explain that to people#I’m tired of people’s experiences in both places of privilege and place of oppression being used to scapegoat what we all can see#like look at his example!#‘going out for a dance on a Saturday night’ means something different if you’re poor if you’re gay if you’re a racial minority#’walking into a shop’ who owns it how often do you go is it a big box store or a small owned business is it walkable#there’s pOLitiCs in all of that! in ever aspect of your life!#ESPECIALLY if you take your life experiences and turn them into art of any form (via @twentyfour-mp3)

prismatic-bell

Friendly reminder that Hozier’s first music video, in 2013, involved him literally taking his life savings and using it to make a protest video about anti-gay actions in Chechnya. This was not a popular position at the time, to the point that damn near every interviewer asked “so, are you gay?” because they literally could not figure out why he cared so much.


Incidentally, after the first few times of saying “no, I’m straight but it’s important,” he started saying “you can think that if you want.” ALSO not a popular position at the time. Adam Lambert’s entire career had been derailed only four years before because he dared to be openly gay and sexual about it.


He literally came out swinging like Muhammad Ali and has not stopped. And he finds it odd that people find it odd! Like he was asked if he was aware of his “lesbian cult following” and seemed genuinely puzzled why he has a lesbian cult following (and, later, just a massive queer following in general) and it’s like. Honey. You loved us first. You loved us more and harder than most people were willing to. When it was unpopular to even whisper about how maybe queer people shouldn’t be seen as inhuman actually, you grabbed a megaphone and screamed. You risked not just losing a career, but never having one at all, to stand by us. You loved us. We’re just loving you back.

Source: youtube.com
katpile
bauliya

everyone's like wehhhhh why doesn't doctor house gets suuuueeed! like my man. literally every patient he sees is someone that's been trying to find a diagnosis for ages. i could live with a little medical malpractice if it were coming from someone ready to break into my home to look for allergens and not simply half heartedly listen to me before suggesting I lose weight and take ages of back and forth arguing to order a single test

bauliya

"it's medical malpractice" have u ever been a doctor? most medicine is malpractice. let the man limp around chewing vicodin doing 50 invasive tests please

clodiuspulcher

Once Taub (derogatory) derisively said about a patient with unexplained chronic pain “7 doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with him, what does that mean?” and House replied without even thinking “it means they’re idiots” and proceed to work his ass off to diagnose the patient Taub wanted to write off as a faker or something. If a doctor had said that when that patient was ME, I wouldn’t dream of suing them in a million years

waxcat

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i cant watch house bc medical trauma but yeag i wish i had a doctor that actually put in the effort to help me like i had to figure auth what i have on my own and then find a specialist for it to get an official diagnosis but they don't treat it so now im a lil lost like not that treatment really exists even but i would like an expert to ask if getting mastec would make me permanently worse. ykno?