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5 months agoTumblr is a blogging experience that’s similar to Twitter, but more focused on the user itself than on the central feed.
- You have your blogs and you post there. Yes, you can have many blogs.
- There’s global feeds with posts from all users, potentially including yours.
- Posts can have non-intrusive hashtags, meaning they are not #partOfThePost, but in a separate, smaller, dedicated section of the post.
- You can’t post stuff to someone else’s blog, but you can comment on their posts. Comments are tiny next to the post.
- You can quote posts, but that makes a duplicate in a blockquote rather than linking to the original post like Twitter
Well, that reminds me that Mastodon has huge, unresolved problems, such as tags being part of the post’s body like Twitter rather than being a separate field like Tumblr.
Reading tweets with a hundred hashtags at the bottom seem really thirsty for attention, which is bad because Mastodon wants to fundamentally work with these, yet doesn’t have good in-post integration for them. It makes interactions less genuine, more performative.
Rome wasn’t built in a day, and Mastodon won’t be good tomorrow either. In the meantime, you can vote to make it better on https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/10743.