oh tumblr ...
Mar. 16th, 2026 05:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kossaiso new tumblr update is functionally worse version of what cohost did : notes of every new reblog chain with direct post body will now go towards creator of that branch , and not OP . as result , post branches will no longer be visible to one another , and yes , if someone popular make addition , that person will gain all of metrics and completely throw off ability to track post flow .
cohost was , at least , much smaller website which de-emphasise numbers to begin with . worst part of this functionality , and something which notice tumblr users in particular complain about , was lack of ability to see into other reblog and comment branches - could sometimes be very finicky to find one exact version again , based on whoever's branch that version come from .
but at least for most part that was just inconvenience - post flow was less necessary to track , as there was no community of TERFs or neo-nazis happy to spread around for less kind reasons , or even just under assumption that no one will notice . but there sure is on tumblr , and popular blogs can not feasibly moderate all of interactions . at least if these things come through OP's notifications as well , then either person can inform each other . if these things do not get seen by OP at all , then there is no way for OP to know , and may get lost in sea of popular blog's many other notifications , unless popular blogs choose to no longer say anything - whether joke , share knowledge , or correct misinformation .
and even just from look at how this show up on other blogs , this make no fucking sense - many posts in entire reblog chains have " 0 notes " . is this broken already ? tumblr , is this broken already ? tumblr be honest , this is fucking broken already .
cohost was , at least , much smaller website which de-emphasise numbers to begin with . worst part of this functionality , and something which notice tumblr users in particular complain about , was lack of ability to see into other reblog and comment branches - could sometimes be very finicky to find one exact version again , based on whoever's branch that version come from .
but at least for most part that was just inconvenience - post flow was less necessary to track , as there was no community of TERFs or neo-nazis happy to spread around for less kind reasons , or even just under assumption that no one will notice . but there sure is on tumblr , and popular blogs can not feasibly moderate all of interactions . at least if these things come through OP's notifications as well , then either person can inform each other . if these things do not get seen by OP at all , then there is no way for OP to know , and may get lost in sea of popular blog's many other notifications , unless popular blogs choose to no longer say anything - whether joke , share knowledge , or correct misinformation .
and even just from look at how this show up on other blogs , this make no fucking sense - many posts in entire reblog chains have " 0 notes " . is this broken already ? tumblr , is this broken already ? tumblr be honest , this is fucking broken already .
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Date: Mar. 17th, 2026 03:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Mar. 17th, 2026 03:28 pm (UTC)There's way less "engagement" here than on Tumblr, in part due commenting being the only form of interaction, but I have felt for a while like the quality of commentary tends to be a bit higher than what I got on Tumblr, at least. And Tumblr is actively killing its main metric for measuring meaningful interaction, so...
Main issue with getting more of fandom to move here is getting people commenting more, and using the "community" system, since that's the main means of public engagement. New communities would need to be formed for some newer or smaller fandoms, and people would have to step up and choose to be moderators for them. There's a lot of dead communities where the original moderators are dead accounts now, so there's no way to pass the reins on them...