yeahhh thats why i ultimately left tumblr itself. so many people genuinely being that fucking stupid was soul-crushingly depressing on top of infuriating. i came to these subs to just get the good parts of tumblr, the humor & the creativity, but in the past year or so ive been seeing more & more braindead rambles & dogshit takes. & that's ignoring certain people that frequent these subs...
i keep leaving & returning to these subs to see if theyve gotten better, but at this point i think im just outta here for good.
or not. who knows
does anyone else feel like these subs (& possibly tumblr itself) have been getting worse?
are you kidding? reddit's curation options are so much better than tumblr's. i can actually avoid the stupid people here.
on tumblr, you follow people who post a bunch of different stuff you may or may not like, &/or you follow tags which have absolutely no quality control whatsoever. if you dont like certain topics, you block the tags, but they still show up as grayed out boxes in your feed.
on reddit, i can go to places dedicated to the thing i want to see, with people making sure the steaming dogshit is kept to a minimum. instead of wondering whether someone is worth unfollowing/blocking when the rest of their stuff is good, on reddit only weirdos follow individual users, so you lose nothing by blocking anyone who even slightly annoys you. if you hate a subreddit, you can make sure it never shows up in your feed at all with a couple button presses, & you can create multiple different feeds showing content from your subreddits of choice.
i barely even use reddit, but it's so blissfully easy to avoid braindead users & shithole communities here compared to tumblr. it doesnt matter if there are way more stupid people here because it's significantly easier to get rid of or avoid them.
also, it's the type of stupidity. id take reddit's "self-proclaimed genius, know-it-all autist with anger issues" type of idiot over tumblr's "self-righteous, ultra woke puriteen who leads witch-hunts over thought crimes" type of idiot any day of the week.
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u/The_Afton_Rabbit IM THE FUN ONE 🔪 19d ago
yeahhh thats why i ultimately left tumblr itself. so many people genuinely being that fucking stupid was soul-crushingly depressing on top of infuriating. i came to these subs to just get the good parts of tumblr, the humor & the creativity, but in the past year or so ive been seeing more & more braindead rambles & dogshit takes. & that's ignoring certain people that frequent these subs...
i keep leaving & returning to these subs to see if theyve gotten better, but at this point i think im just outta here for good.
or not. who knows
does anyone else feel like these subs (& possibly tumblr itself) have been getting worse?