Dolphins and tuna nets

[sabotabby]

If you needed further proof that Tumblr is a garbage hellsite, behold the notice I just received:



GREAT JORB POLICING HATE SPEECH U GUYS

Comments

[springheel_jack]

This is the problem. They always use those powers against the left first, or only.

[sabotabby]

It happens often enough that it can't be attributed to machine error. This is intentional practice.

[springheel_jack]

It certainly is, and it's one that's conditioned by the prevailing ideology; the left is most hateful and most dangerous, because what it wants is most different than how things already are; the right is always in cahoots with how things are, essentially just is a version of how things already are with stronger flavors, so it always appears as the more reasonable of what from Ideology's point of view are the wrong options. So the left always goes to the wall first.

It's why I'm really leery of these calls for corporate sites to 'ban the nazis,' because they can't, they absolutely can't, focus on just one "side", even though it's the difference between fascism and socialism. They have to do both sides, and will always focus harder on the left. Antifa are a hate group now, officially, and will be policed much, much much harder than the right ever will. The right will be protected, perceived as a non-transformative minority position, while the left is always the real threat to the status quo. The cops guard the right and go in with truncheons on the counterprotesting left, etc. Same dynamic on these online services, only the cops are underpaid outsourced workers in the global proletariat, mechanically applying a formula.

Also Tumblr is a piece of shit. It's just an absolute piece of shit.

[sabotabby]

All of this.

I am down with calls for Twitter, FB, etc. to ban Nazis not because I think it would be effective or enforced, but because it is sometimes a useful rallying point. But to get all Marxist, we need to seize the means of social media production or it will never work in our favour. (DW is not run by Marxists to my knowledge, but it is run by community-minded people, and this is why this place is not a garbage site.)

[franklanguage]

Funny, I had back-burnered Tumblr because I'd gotten locked out of my account—and all the techs are volunteers, meaning they heave a deep sigh whenever you contact them—I did find it was a time-suck to be on it, but not to the extent that FB is—plus, I often learn something from hanging out there.

Now, I think I might as well just abandon my account, though

[sabotabby]

I keep waffling. I still haven't found a good place to get Dadaist humour and pretty art.

[franklanguage]

MINDS is a site I want to get more active on; come join me!

[grimjim]

I haven't really checked it out, but would you believe ello.co still exists?

[sabotabby]

I do 'cause I keep getting notifications from them, despite not having visited my account in years and forgetting what the account is called (probably sabotabby as well???) and what the password is.

[grimjim]

If Tumblr relies heavily on volunteers for screening, what exactly would keep the alt-right from infiltrating?

[sabotabby]

I think you just answered your own question.

[kore]

Yeah, it's always, ALWAYS the leftists and the queers and the women and so on who get banned and closed down and books burned even. That always happens first.

[sabotabby]

Happens only, usually.

[flowerfuck]

I feel like Tumblr is deliberately attacking the people who helped grow the site. Tumblr has become so synonymous with being a place where women and queers and other lefty types can express themselves that words like "tumblrite" and "tumblrina" are used as insults against us. I think grimjim was right up above, maybe the volunteer teams are full of people who don't want us to have a space online.

[sabotabby]

It is. And then they're like "why did our shares drop?"

[dewline]

Ownership by Verizon has clearly done Tumblr no kindness at all.

[sabotabby]

Nope. It made a clunky site suck worse.

[ironed_orchid]

What the fuck! That's terrible!

[sabotabby]

Yeeeep.

It's worse for the main owner of the account, who has put his heart and soul into it. We had 38,000 followers!

[ironed_orchid]

Fuuuuck.

also, apologies for editing and deleting comments this morning, I read and responded before I drank my coffee.

[sabotabby]

No worries, I get email notifications so I know why you edited and deleted. :) I too often post before being fully caffeinated.

[kore]

Christ almighty.

I basically left Tumblr when they censored and hid my blog over a whole bunch of fucking b&w art photos/drawings, and I wanted access to it again, so I deleted them and felt angry and cowardly. And it had nothing to do with politics even! Gahhh.

[sabotabby]

They didn't like my cakes or squid. I still pop in daily to see if there's anything particularly cool but like...the cake was not a dick pic. It was, admittedly, a cake-fail where the castle spires looked like dicks, but it was very clearly supposed to be a castle cake for a child's birthday party and Tumblr decided it was porn.

[dewline]

I am utterly unsurprised by this particular misfire on their part.

[sabotabby]

They also had a problem with ginger cats and Mark Rothko paintings.

[sara]

I feel pretty good about walking away from Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter earlier this year.

[sabotabby]

That is a Good Decision. I'm still on all three like a chump.

[dewline]

I haven't joined up re: Tumblr and Twitter (although I've bookmarked some of the actors and astronomers and CBC-affiliated accounts on the latter service). Facebook, I got invited into by a past partner in comic book-making. And I'm on Flickr as "dwight_ew", if you can stand my occasional bouts of flag-waving there.

[sabotabby]

I’ve been on Flickr since overloading my storage capacity on DW and it never occurred to me that Flickr might have a social networking aspect to it.

[dewline]

The networking option is there, built into the comments function as well as the groups' discussion forums, although it doesn't seem like a lot of people take advantage of those options. A lot of us seem to just upload and move on.

[notasupervillain]

I am not even a little bit surprised.

I think the only people who hate Tumblr users more than 4chan are the Tumblr admin.

[sabotabby]

I would almost wonder if they were the same people except that Tumblr admin are less competent.

[notasupervillain]

It is a source of constant amazement to me that Tumblr continues to exist despite its admin.

[notasupervillain]

I am not even a little bit surprised.

I think the only people who hate Tumblr users more than 4chan are the Tumblr admin.

[minoanmiss]

This comment is so accurate it posted twice. *heartily agrees*

[lapinlunaire]

lololol hate speech

This is making me feel better about the fact that I was never good at using tumblr, and eventually came to terms with that.

[sabotabby]

It's a UX nightmare as well. I don't think anyone can use it properly, and I always found it weird that it was such an important dissemination point for Antifa International.