The way I understood the norm on Tumblr, signal-boosting within Tumblr was usually fine (unless the post specifically said “do not reblog” on it or something like that), but signal-boosting to other non-Tumblr communities was bad. The idea was that Tumblr users had a shared vibe/culture/stigma that wasn’t shared by the wider world, so it was important to keep things in the sin pit where normal people wouldn’t encounter them and react badly.
Skimming the home invasion post it seems like the author feels similarly: Mastodon has a particular culture, created by the kind of people who’d seek it out, and they don’t want to have to interact with people who haven’t acclimated to that culture.
Interesting; that isn’t something I knew about Tumblr. This is especially surprising given how often I see screenshots of Tumblr discussions shared on FB, like the post I responded to here.
AIUI it was a feature of early Tumblr culture, which lingered to various degrees in various subcommunities as the site grew more popular. The porn ban in late 2018 also seemed to open things up a lot, even for people who weren’t posting porn; I don’t know why.
The way I understood the norm on Tumblr, signal-boosting within Tumblr was usually fine (unless the post specifically said “do not reblog” on it or something like that), but signal-boosting to other non-Tumblr communities was bad. The idea was that Tumblr users had a shared vibe/culture/stigma that wasn’t shared by the wider world, so it was important to keep things in the sin pit where normal people wouldn’t encounter them and react badly.
Skimming the home invasion post it seems like the author feels similarly: Mastodon has a particular culture, created by the kind of people who’d seek it out, and they don’t want to have to interact with people who haven’t acclimated to that culture.
Interesting; that isn’t something I knew about Tumblr. This is especially surprising given how often I see screenshots of Tumblr discussions shared on FB, like the post I responded to here.
(I really don’t like share-by-screenshot culture)
AIUI it was a feature of early Tumblr culture, which lingered to various degrees in various subcommunities as the site grew more popular. The porn ban in late 2018 also seemed to open things up a lot, even for people who weren’t posting porn; I don’t know why.