Confession: I've been neglecting my Dreamwidth journal in favor of Tumblr

[capri0mni]

Because Tumblr has orders of magnitude more traffic, and I couldn't keep up with conversations on both sites simultaneously.

That will be changing as of today.

Yesterday, Tumblr changed the way it organizes conversations, making it more like Twitter, and making it impossible for the author of a post to keep track of who's sharing their work, or what they're saying in reply to it.

(If I wanted a Twitter-like experience, I would have gotten a Twitter account! [or Bluesky, or wherever])

So from here on in, I will be blocking all Tumblr reblogs and replies by default, and cross-posting my longer, more thought-out entries here. I'll put a link to the Dreamwidth versions at the end of the Tumblr posts, so if people want to comment can do so where I can see and filter them.

(I'm currently working on a behemoth of a post on the Bechdel test, and working out other metrics for representing marginalized identities in storytelling (whether fiction or nonfiction) -- most notably, on a personal level, disability representation.

Comments

[alatefeline]

I'm glad to see you back here and very sorry that it's because of Tumblr kneecapping itself.

[capri0mni]

I saw one comment yesterday that "Tumblr decided to celebrate the Ides of March by stabbing its users in the back."

[alatefeline]

Yupppp.

[jesse_the_k]

I’d be delighted to see you back and staff already walked back the reblog change.

(Power of the people! But also one can’t rely on big tech to care about us.)

[capri0mni]

Well, that's a relief. (I'm not really Surprised they walked it back; the response was so massive and so negative, it broke their feedback form).

And it's not just Bog Tech, it's all of the Stock Market, that insists on increasing profits every quarter. Keeping at today's level, even if that's successful, is counted as a loss.