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[fitia]

Tumblr hasn't quite gone down or become unusable yet, so I still see myself being on there more often, but honestly... I've been looking around on this site for what has been exactly 24 hours, and I already see myself posting on here more frequently, eventually. The general vibe feels more suited to what I want to do, which is ramble on and on about nerdy things without that fear of a looming threat that anything I say is being put underneath a microscope and that I have to defend every sentence and statement I make individually. It's obviously not entirely personal, because this is still a public space, but it's certainly cozier. More relaxing.

I'll miss the community there once it's gone, but Dreamdwith journalling is something I'll be able to adapt to. If I need the chattier and more image-based form of social media, I'll still have my bluesky. It's comforting to know that my primary form of social media being more at risk of shutting down than ever doesn't have to feel so scary and final.

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[sambucawitch]

If you are on Tumblr I’ll add you

[fitia]

You're free to! I'm not active on there at the moment because I've been taking a short break from it, but my url is also fitia on there ^^

[sambucawitch]

Cool. I’m also on Pillowfort 😭😂

[sambucawitch]

I'm sambucawitch there too. :D

[dividedbyblue]

Lovely that you are here, I hope you have a great time on Dreamwidth!

I made a Tumblr account once for fan art, but I didn’t use it much, to be honest. But I remember Tumblr being loved for fandom use. Has something happened to Tumblr that makes it less interesting for fandom nowadays?

[fitia]

Thank you! And honestly, it's not that it's less appealing for fandom — I still think that as far as the combination of discussion and sharing + archiving images goes, Tumblr is still the best website for that — and more that lately, the awful site management seems to have reached a critical point, most of the staff has been laid off, so the website's survival is more in question than it's ever been 😭 which is very unfortunate. I'll have fun posting on here, but if Tumblr does go down I'll miss it very much.

[dividedbyblue]

Oh, I’m sorry to hear about the layoffs :( That indeed doesn’t bode well for Tumblr's future… Hopefully, it will still manage to survive and continue going.