@woozle @codeawayhaley yeah, and with how things are going with net neutrality and politics in general, decentralized social networks are probably going to be the only place to be

@msk @codeawayhaley

It's really awesome to see an alternative finally taking off, and people stating to understand why it's important. So many years of not-quite-there...

@woozle @codeawayhaley I remember Ello and I was optimistic about it, but it wasn't quite there

@woozle @msk @codeawayhaley Tumblr's UX...is that worth imitating?

@kara_dreamer @woozle @codeawayhaley if you can hammer out or just not include all the problems that Tumblr, has, sure, I think ;p

@msk @woozle @codeawayhaley my biggest problem with Tumblr has always been with how it looked, I confess.

@kara_dreamer @msk @codeawayhaley I don't get it, myself, but apparently a lot of people like it.

H's youngest more or less came of age online there, and still uses it a lot.

...but is very frustrated with a lot of its technical issues and lack of policing, without even getting into the politics.

If we could lure him over to the Mastoverse with a Tumblr-like UI and access to troll-free RWBY posts...

@woozle @msk @codeawayhaley *nods* I put some of my Undertale writing up there experimentally, putting the _same_ stories up on a new DeviantArt account at the same time. Doing that on DA led me to find a nice little corner of the Undertale fandom; doing that on Tumblr gave me one or two serious comments and a half-dozen follows from MILF porn accounts because one of my stories has "Cougar" in the title. :/ But mainly I dislike how Tumblr gives me this 1/2-inch-wide strip of content that fills up rapidly with multiply nested reposts &c.

@kara_dreamer @woozle @codeawayhaley Tumblr seems to never be able to do anything about porn bots while they're silencing LGBTQ+ ppl

@msk @codeawayhaley @woozle @kara_dreamer

ugh. so many blocked bots.

@kara_dreamer @woozle @codeawayhaley @msk

...and fetishists

@maritroniuity @kara_dreamer @woozle @codeawayhaley yeah i pretty much gave up blocking porn bots about a year ago lol

@msk @kara_dreamer @codeawayhaley This is what I hear. Same with birdsite.

Feels like the commercial social nets are dying and they just don't know it yet.

(Or maybe they do, but are trying to hide it.)

@woozle @msk @codeawayhaley I think Twitter's going down a different path...I think it's _deliberately_ trying to become a sort of Breitbartian noise machine. Useless as a social medium but it could survive a long time like that

@kara_dreamer @msk @woozle @codeawayhaley

Agreed. I had to start using Washboard on my computer because the standard site crashed the computer way too often, that and xkit no longer works on Pale Moon.

@Kuroda yeah, I'm interested to see where decentralization ends up going ^^

@SilverNeurotic yeah i mean there are other reasons it sucks but verizon owning it now, seems it's gonna suck even more

@msk I thought it was because I was "too old" to get it, but I don't think that was it.

@msk re: get people off Tumblr asap - I also created a Tumblr link post that summarizes the moment. They can click the link to read the articles being cited.

(Note the domain is a custom domain I'm using on my tumblelog)

http://sinopiasaur.com/post/162261602661/tumblring-down-the-drain

@AvaJarvisArt boosting all of this ^^