#reddit refugees welcome
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Welcome to Tumblr, Reddit Refugees! I hope you enjoy your stay in our little Hellsite (affectionate)!
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WHY AM I ONLY HEARING ABOUT THE REDDIT MIGRATION NOW???????? LIKE??????????
btw my blog is a safe space for reddit refugees.
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Watching the difference between the Twitter migration mentality vs. the Reddit migration mentality is fucking hilarious.
Like, when Twitter users started moving over here everyone was pulling out all the stops and bringing back old fandoms that they were into and basically firing rent lowering shots by being super cringey.
And then all of the sudden when the Reddit refugees start showing up we're like, "ah yes, pull up a log and gather around the dumpster fire. We'll teach you how to not get killed by people hunting down bots and carve out a little area for you guys to relax and get used to the site before we throw you into the deep end of this hellsite that we call home. Tomorrow is Let Papyrus say Fuck day so you can prepare for that if you want. You want some hot coco and a blanket?"
#reddit blackout#reddit refugees#reddit#get comfy#welcome to your new hell#enjoy your time here#be ready to celebrate stupid holidays#let papyrus say fuck#undertale#deltarune#twitter#196
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#Show me how this is better for both of us and I am willing to talk#Features to control my behavior are not welcome#At the very least give me some of the things I have been asking for as well#reddit boycott#reddit refugee#reddit migration#reddit blackout#reddit#tumblr
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I just love that tumblr as a whole has decided “yeah will take in the Reddit refugees and show them the ropes” but twitter refuges show up here and we’re like “Fuck no get the hell out of our hell”
#Reddit refugees welcome#twitter refugees not#unless y’all came like a few months ago then your cool
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Twitter in shambles, refugees coming to Tumblr
Tumblr: keep walking. We don't want you! Don't even look at our webbsite. shoo! and STAY. AWAY.
Reddit in chaos, refugees coming to Tumblr
Tumblr: oh of course you can hang with us, come sit here! Do you want a cookie? A blanket? Don't worry, bestie, everything's gonna be fine
#reddit blackout#r/196#reddit refugee#twitter refugees#i mean ... i agree but its just quite funny to me#anyway welcome to anyone new
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The Tumblr Code:
1. Defend Tumblr, even with your life. You may have friendships with users from the other social media, but your loyalty must remain to Tumblr, as one day you may meet them in battle.
2. Do not repost or steal from another site’s territory.
3. Fandom elders and smol beans must be fed before reposters and girlbloggers. Unless they have permission, reposters may not post until they have hunted to feed the Fandom elders.
4. Posts are made only to be reblogged. Give thanks to FandomClan for their life.
5. A new user must be at least thirteen years old to become a blank blog.
6. Newly appointed girlbloggers will keep a silent vigil for one night after receiving their url.
7. A girlblogger cannot be made a popular user without having made at least one banger post.
8. The popular user will become Tumblr leader when the leader dies or retires.
9. After the death or retirement of a popular user, a new user must be chosen before moonhigh.
10. A gathering of all users is held at the full moon during a truce that lasts for Out Of Touch Thursday. There shall be no fighting among users at this time.
11. Boundaries must be checked and marked daily. Challenge all trespassing blank blogs.
12. No girlbloggers may neglect a little meow meow in pain or in danger, even if that little meow meow is from a different fandom.
13. The word of Evil Mario is the Tumblr code.
14. An honorable girlblogger does not need to kill other bloggers to win their battles, unless they are outside the Tumblr code or it is necessary for self-defense.
15. A Tumblr user rejects the soft life of a Twittypet.
#edit: a warm welcome to reddit refugees and users of r/196!#butchhomura loves you <3 not the twitter users though#tumblrclan
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Tumblr is such a nice vibe. No one downvotes or makes fun of what you post. I haven't seen any petty arguments. No one is calling me dumb or making fun of women or LGBT stuff. No one is making fun of women for their weight. Guys....
I've never felt so welcome
#loved#bisexual pride#feminist#reddit refugee#i feel so welcomed#everyones so nice#reddit#love everyone#no negative vibes#Ive found my home
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A tip for Reddit Refugees (and anyone else who might need to hear it) from someone who has been on this hellsite for 10+ years. Don’t worry about cringe!
I know overall the internet has become increasingly hostile to genuine expressions of emotion, but we don’t do that here. This website was built on the backs of weird teenagers who could not be chill about their favorite fandom. And while most of us have matured a bit, we’re all still here. We’re all still incapable of being chill about our recent obsessions.
So reblog at will! Seriously, if you like it reblog it. If you wanna write, draw, or post about the most niche ship in the most niche fandom, do it! Don’t worry about whether your followers will think you’re corny. Don’t worry about being too genuine. We’re all corny, cringey, weirdos here.
And if someone tries to tell you you’re being cringe, ask them what they’re doing at the devil’s sacrament.
#reddit#reddit blackout#reddit boycott#reddit migrants#reddit migration#welcome refugees#welcome redditors
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Twitter x Tumblr x Reddit love triangle anyone?
#twitblr#tumblr twitter#socialstuck#gijinka#reddit#reddblr#reddit migration#welcome to the hellsite#reddit refugees#twitter#ive improved a lot digital art wise!
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What the fuck is a destiel
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Wednesday, June 21.
Welcome Home, Cheaters #196.
Well, well, well. Well. Well, well. Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well. Well. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell. Well well. Well well well well well. Well, well.
Wait. Where are our manners? What we mean to say, of course, is well-come! A warmest, heartiest greetin' to you. We heard rumors of a bit of a kerfuffle, a bit of squibblin'-squabblin', a bit of bother down at The Old Mill. And by The Old Mill, of course, we mean those good folks over at #reddit, a nearby settlement, who seem to be havin' a bit of trouble with somethin' this that or other. Now, we's the types to mind our own business—other people's bother ain't nothin' to do with us—but we couldn't help noticin' an influx of weary, but cheery, travelers over at #196. It seems you folks in need of a place to stay. Well, we folks are awful gracious, awful magnanimous, if you whill, so I guess we've just gots one thing to say to all you new faces...
With that, all that's left to be said to the good folk of #196 is welcome. Welcome aboard, me hearties.
You're gonna love it x
#today on tumblr#196#reddit#reddit refugee#reddit exodus#welcome#welcome one and all#me hearties#reddit boycott#reddit migration#welcome aboard#new friends
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Basics of Tumblr-based memetics for reddit refugees
When people arrive at Tumblr, they are generally unsure about how to handle themselves. The buttons are easy enough (I mean, the UI sucks, but it's 2023, we're all used to sucky UIs by now, so....), but what are the social implications of each one? What does a reblog mean?
This is very difficult to explain to people for whom this is their first social media site, or are arriving here from (eg) Facebook. But for this round of refugees, from Reddit specifically, I actually can explain. Because!...
....As you have no doubt noticed ....
.... in a world where we all use 4 websites, and each of them consists of content screenshotted from the other 3....
...there is not an equal distribution of who's making content and who's copying it. Facebook generates almost none of the content for other websites; Twitter generates some; but nearly all of the content on the modern internet is generate on Reddit or on Tumblr.
There is a reason for this: all "web 2.0" sites have the ability to generate new memes, and new variants on those memes. But only Reddit and Tumblr have an evolutionary pressure that forces those memes through a natural-selection process. On Reddit, that pressure is applied by the voting system: if an addition to a post doesn't get enough upvotes, it's hidden from view, which means it has limited ability to affect the next generation of posts.
On Tumblr, the equivalent evolutionary pressure is applied by reblogs: each version of a post, each set of additions, is seen in proportion to how many people reblog it, and thus cause other people to see it. Lack of reblogs -> lack of visibility -> limited ability to affect the next generation of posts.
So with that in mind, let's look at some nuances that are specific to the Tumblr ecosystem.
1) Reblogs are direct visibility; upvotes are indirect
On Reddit, when you upvote something, it's a signal to the algorithm that -- in your opinion -- this thing is useful/valuable/funny or in some other way worthwhile. The algorithm takes that into account along with everyone else's votes, time since it was posted, and so on, and makes a decision about what to show by default vs what to hide by default, and how to sort things. Upvoting does affect visibility, but it's only one factor.
Whereas on Tumblr, reblogging puts the post on your followers' dashboards directly (assuming your followers have chronological order turned on, which most of them probably do because fuck corporate decisions about what I should and shouldn't see). One reblog = one post on everyone's dashboard; it's as simple as that.
Reblogging is therefore a much stronger evolutionary boost than upvoting is.
2) Likes have very little impact on visibility
Most people have "based on your likes" turned off. Even for those that keep it on, it doesn't affect what other people see, it only gives Tumblr some idea of what you might like to see. Of course behind the scenes that's somehow accomplished with some kind of correlation coefficient about which posts are most likely to be "liked" by the same person, and in that sense a "like" on this post increases the likelihood that someone else who has "liked" other posts that you have "liked" will see this post as well, but it's a very tenuous and wispy impact,.
Liking is therefore a much weaker evolutionary boost than upvoting is, and should be considered more along the lines of a high-five, or a hug, or a "I would give you gold for this if I could afford any" comment.
(Also, you cannot "like" only one section of a post. When you "like", the notification goes to everyone in the chain, from OP to the latest reblog. If you wish to give specific high-fives, the mechanism you're looking for is replies.)
3) Replies have no impact on visibility one way or the other.
Only OP gets notifications for replies, but you can tag people in the reply to notify them. This is the place for "@most-recent-commenter I would give you gold if I could" or for tagging a friend that you think would enjoy the post.
So, with the underlying mechanics of the ecosystem out of the way, let's look at
memetic engineering
There are two ways you can add your thoughts/ideas/opinions/snarky commentary to a post: in the text of the post, or in the tags.
a digression on tags
Tags -- of course -- can theoretically be used to organize content, although if we're being completely honest here, they're not ... great. for that. Tags can be handy as a textual handle to simplify your google search when you use an external search engine to search your own tumblr blog, but their use as an archival tool is mediocre at best. Likewise, no matter what the Tumblr UI says in the tag section, they're not gonna be that helpful in allowing people to find your content.
Tags can also, as sometimes they do on Twitter or Instagram, provide context to a post. This is less important here, since without a character limit there's no need to trim down your commentary and trust #wgastrike2023 to fill in the missing details, but it can be very handy when you're trying to determine whether this "Bruce and his buddies" post is talking about The Hulk or about Batman, or whether this thread is dissing Harry Potter, Harry Styles, or Harry Prince of Wales.
Tags are also very handy for allowing people to continue following you even when there's some sort of interest incompatibility. If you love spiders -- especially pictures of spiders -- and I'm arachnophobic, then I'm probably not going to be able to keep following you, no matter how excellent your Anarchist Star Wars takes are. But if you love pictures of spiders and you tag every single one of them #spiders, then I can block that tag and still keep following you. Similarly, a temporary block on #The Witcher Spoilers can allow the fandom to all discuss a new episode at whatever time they're able to watch it, without having to completely avoid online spaces in the meantime.
And finally, tags can, and are, used for commentary that you don't want to put in the main post. Where that line is -- what to put in the post and what to put in tags -- is something you'll have to decide for yourself as you get experience, but as a general rule, the post is for something that you believe contributes to the memetic fitness of this post, and the tags are for things that you believe are not necessarily of memetic value. Additions to the post are integrated into the DNA, and will be passed on with subsequent reblogs; tags are only added to your instantiation of the post, and will not be included on future reblogs (unless the person who reblogs it from you is on iOS Tumblr Mobile app and hasn't adjusted their settings, in which case it'll go into their tags... but at any rate it'll die out in a generation or two.) This feature makes it good for adding meta-commentary that will be interesting/funny/valuable to your immediate circle of friends, but won't be useful to the population as a whole -- it allows you to be as snarky, in-joke-y, and obscure as you'd like, without having to spend any of your mental RAM calculating what will and won't have an impact on your Brand as an Influencer.
Influencers
There is no easy mechanism for people to see your follower count. There are many easy mechanisms for people to make it impossible to see their follower count. No one cares about how many followers you have or how far your "influence" spreads. No one is going to offer you a Tumblr sponsorship deal.
However, for assorted underlying-code reasons, Tumblr blogs are disproportionately useful for manipulating search engines. So.... we have an ongoing problem with SEO scum making a whole bunch of bots and using reblogs etc to generate fake signals to Google.
The combination of those two things leads to a general Tumblr tradition of Block Bots On Sight. The extra followers aren't helping you, and the mere fact of their existence is hurting all of us. If you've seen people strongly urging you to change your profile picture, add a bio, and reblog a couple things, that's why -- because we don't want you to get caught in the crossfire of our ongoing guerilla warfare.
Other Notes
One of the places that Reddit is much better than Tumblr is in the viewing of an entire memetic population as a whole: you just look at a post, scroll through the page, and Reddit helpfully shows you want you want to see, and hides what you don't.
On Tumblr, each memetic variation is functionally an entirely separate entity. This is great for memetic diversity, but it means there's a LOT of duplication, and it means there's really no good way to get all the variants together. The closest you can get is to "check the notes" -- click on that number at the bottom left of a post, and look through the replies, reblogs, and tags. Those are in chronological order and in no way threaded, so it's not very useful, but it is what we've got.
Let's see ...
One thing Tumblr does much better than Reddit is the ability (because of aforementioned fragmentation) to have an arbitrary number of any fandom. No more "Well I don't like the takes in r/polyamory but it's the only place where I can talk about it so idk" ... nope! Here we can have as many Spider-Man fandoms as there are Spider-Man fans. Really like someone's headcanons? Follow them! Really dislike someone's OTP? Unfollow them! Really hate someone's take on your favorite character? Block them! This is a fabulous feature of Tumblr and I encourage you to take advantage of it.
uh...
tags can be 140 characters, but they can't contain double quotes (") or commas (,) because those are delimiter characters and Tumblr will break your tag at those points in the string
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If you think someone has mis-judged the value of their tags, you can copy them from their post and paste them into the main comment of your reblog. This is known as the tags "passing peer review". Copy-paste is preferred to screenshotting for accessibility reasons (and also the fact that sometimes Tumblr just doesn't feel like loading pictures), and it's considered polite to credit the person whose tags you promoted.
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Contrariwise, if you think they mis-judged the value of their comment, you can go back to the person they reblogged from, and reblog without their addition. Tumblr made this harder recently, but I have confidence that we'll defeat them eventually.
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I know that I said reblogs are much stronger than upvotes, but when you've got infinite monkeys generating infinite reblog streams, it all gets lost in the noise. Reblog anything and everything you feel like upvoting -- if people don’t want to be subjected to a bunch of random shit that lights up the dopamine receptors in your brain, they shouldn’t be following you on Tumblr.
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IDK what to tell you about Tumblr polls. We're just like this 🤷♂️
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That's all I can think of. Deities bless and keep you for seeing a problem in our online ecosystem and actually doing something about it. Looking forward to seeing what we can do together.
(Author's Note: All statements about how Tumblr works ("works") are as of 14 June 2023. God only knows what changes staff will have rolled out by time time you read this)
#welcome reddit refugees#meme mutation#memetics#long post#sociology#anthropology#tumblr culture#the tumblr experience#seriously people tag your fandom if you're going to talk about bruce! Or Harry! Or Steve!
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A belated list of things Redditors should know about Tumblr
The Ides of March (March 15th) is basically a Tumblr holiday. Get ready for Ceasar references around that time of year.
Folks on Tumblr absolutely love dragging and joking about this guy called Ea-Nasir. He’s a guy from 3,800 years ago who was basically a con man and is the subject of the world’s oldest-known customer service complaint letter.
Always tag your posts for heavy topics that might trigger someone
Don’t use euphemisms for heavy topics when tagging your posts – this makes it hard for people to avoid the topics that trigger them.
You can blacklist topics that trigger or bother you.
You can block people you don’t want to interact with. You don’t need to feel bad about it or have a deep reason for it. You get to curate your experience on here and you don’t owe anybody an explanation.
Go to your settings and change it so that you can see the date a post was blogged. This comes in really useful for when you see news articles.
You can have as many blogs as you want! Some people have a mixed-topic blog that they consider their personal blog and then have themed blogs for their interests while others just have the one blog. Do whatever feels comfortable for you.
#i'm just saying#redditors#welcome to tumblr#reddit refugees#reddit exodus#reddit migration#ea nasir#ea nāṣir#ides of march
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#welcome redditors#reddit migration#reddit migrants#196#reddit#reddit blackout#also i had this gif saved and i edited it to what i saw as perfect representation#reddit boycott#twitter refugees#twitter#supernatural
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I just scrolled 600+ posts on here and can I just say, this site is a lot more entertaining than twitter. In less than 12 posts I saw Stranger Things smut, REALLY GOOD furry art, a pic of someone with a bloody nose, people welcoming Redditors, discourse on punk patches, boobs, some girls art that I may go buy a piece, a recipe for strawberry cookies, a pic of a kitty in a hoodie, a really attractive guy, someone bitching about the state of the DC universe, and more boobs, really nice ones too.
And I don't feel exhausted from all the casual hate and meanness I felt doing the same thing on Twitter. I feel like I'm home. A lil place that shows me all kinds of strange things, that'll be even stranger tomorrow. (Yeah there's haters on here but it's so easy to just block and ignore em.)
#twitter refugees#twitter#reddit exodus#reddit#reddit is done#reddit refugee#tumblr page#tumblr is home#i hate and love this place#our dumpster fire#thinking out loud#nevermind me#im getting sentimental in my old age#welcome redditors#welcome twitter#i love all of you weirdos
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