OH HI!! So just for accountability purposes I got your email and will answer it whenever my innate tendency to procrastinate on these things decides that it's aged sufficiently ;__; ... but it's always really nice to hear from you! <3
Oh wow I'm so out of sync with the modern "experience" that I 100% did not realize from what you posted that "curate your feed" just meant following people -- no. That's not what that means?? Like you said, curating takes more work than that (and Tumblr was never great at actual curation tools...)
Right??? I think the thing is, it actually *doesn't* mean that except according to whatever corporate person wrote this post - I mean, literally everyone I know who talks about it means it the way we mean it, where it's about filtering/blocking/tag-sorting. If the people running Tumblr think that it actually means following people, I think we have a problem, because ... no. That being said, I don't think the "following" feed is going away, it just might eventually get harder to find and more cluttered.
(Scuttlebutt currently is that people signing up for Tumblr are default-opted into the "for you" feed and while they can still access the Following tab, they can't make it default, which is FUCKING INSANE and I'm tempted to sign up for a burner account just to test this.)
It makes complete sense from a commercial point of view, but it's an actual legit nightmare as a way to socialize -- or is that just me from an introvert's POV?
It's definitely not just you! Actually, this is closely related to the epiphany that the above-quoted post gave me about modern social media - because somehow social media has stopped being about socializing and turned into a way of firehosing content at you, but it was always supposed to be about having social interactions with people, and for me it still is! I really don't like the idea of it turning into something completely different.
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Oh wow I'm so out of sync with the modern "experience" that I 100% did not realize from what you posted that "curate your feed" just meant following people -- no. That's not what that means?? Like you said, curating takes more work than that (and Tumblr was never great at actual curation tools...)
Right??? I think the thing is, it actually *doesn't* mean that except according to whatever corporate person wrote this post - I mean, literally everyone I know who talks about it means it the way we mean it, where it's about filtering/blocking/tag-sorting. If the people running Tumblr think that it actually means following people, I think we have a problem, because ... no. That being said, I don't think the "following" feed is going away, it just might eventually get harder to find and more cluttered.
(Scuttlebutt currently is that people signing up for Tumblr are default-opted into the "for you" feed and while they can still access the Following tab, they can't make it default, which is FUCKING INSANE and I'm tempted to sign up for a burner account just to test this.)
It makes complete sense from a commercial point of view, but it's an actual legit nightmare as a way to socialize -- or is that just me from an introvert's POV?
It's definitely not just you! Actually, this is closely related to the epiphany that the above-quoted post gave me about modern social media - because somehow social media has stopped being about socializing and turned into a way of firehosing content at you, but it was always supposed to be about having social interactions with people, and for me it still is! I really don't like the idea of it turning into something completely different.