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
I finally switched to firefox and I’ve seen a lot of posts about the effortless importing of preferences from chrome and how it’s important to support non-chromium platforms, but nobody is talking about the loss of productivity that happens when beautiful women come to your house to kiss you on the mouth because they heard you use firefox now. nobody’s talking about this
Having your own personal blog is honestly quite a nice change of pace compared to Reddit. I could put a funny GIF of George Bush getting hit by a shoe on here and the worse case scenario is that no one even notices.
You put that on a big subreddit and you get your eyes gouged out and a heap of political discourse underneath your post.
Don’t get me wrong, there are advantages and disadvantages to every website and the loss of Reddit would be a huge blow so I hope to god they sort their issues out but it is kind of heart-warming to see people coming here and being away from the overall toxic environment of reddit like a puppy mill dog being let into a big field for the first time. Or a queer person raised in a homophobic house first meeting other queer people.
For those who don’t know, Reddit is broken up into subreddits which are moderated by individuals who can choose what is allowed on there and what isn’t. There’s also a system called “karma” that essentially tracks how many upvotes vs downvotes you have across the whole site. Bad karma not only makes you less likely to be believed or respected, but also can literally prevent you from joining certain subreddits.
So basically not only do you have to make sure everything you post is okay with the individual subreddit mods, who can be extremely fickle, but you have to make sure that you are consistently saying things everyone else already agrees with or risk being literally blacklisted from whole sections of the site. Making posts echoing popular sentiment just to “farm karma” is common place.
The idea of “there is no built in punishment system for what you put on your blog because it belongs to you, specifically. As long as it isn’t breaking ToS, you can post what you want. You can receive backlash from people if they disagree but there is no built in system in the site itself to punish you for posting something others don’t agree with” is an incredibly freeing experience for people who basically only have been on Reddit.
Hello everyone! I am a 24 y/o Male who posts stuff I like. I apologize if I over-post sometimes. I love gaming and Rooster Teeth, and have two other blogs to keep this one from getting too congested. They are: MartunaGaming and BowDowntotheTowerofPimps
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