#tumblr algorithm do your thing!!

[nexus-my-beloved]

Hey, you!

Yes, you! Have you been noticing the lack of Midam content? The lack of Micheal and Adam as a couple being celebrated? Have you been craving a new outlet to write for? Well, look no further!

I'm planning on hosting a Midam Bang, the first one I can find has happened so far! I need your feedback to let me know who I can expect to be there to help me add to the Midam content on Tumblr and Ao3!

Please please please, fill out the form and give me your thoughts on a Midam bang that I'm planning to launch, and please spread the word!!

Your thoughts matter!

I look forward to possibly seeing you !!

#midam #midam spn #michael spn #micheal spn #adam milligan #adam spn #archangel michael #archangel micheal #writing bang #supernatural #spn #nex rambles #nexus speaks #fanfic #midam bang #midam bang 2024 #mb2024 #mb24 #spread the word !!! #tumblr algorithm do your thing!!

[tomwambsmilk]

fr tho @staff why are you trying to make tumblr more like other sites why are you destroying your niche in the market please there have got to be ways to make tumblr more accessible to new users without sacrificing the very things that your existing userbase loves

#its a genuine problem... I have had friends sign up for tumblr and then not use it because they dont know how to navigate non-algorithmic sm #but come on. there have got to be ways to build up the onboarding process so that people learn how to search for blogs + content #and/or ways to create separate contained algorithmic feeds OR to create the option to turn the algorithmic feed off like it is rn #and honestly I do think tumblr's focus should be more on 'how do we convince people non-algorithmic is good' #rather than 'how do we become algorithmic' #there's gotta be a whole angle in there right??? something like emphasizing that on tumblr you find the content YOU want #not the content we want you to want #also the whole thing about drawing in new creators. have they talked to existing creators??????? bc I dont know that they want algorithms #i dont know I just think tumblr will never be able to do the algorithm better than sites like FB or tik tok or even twitter #so if they try to become algorithmic they will fail to meet the standards of new users AND they will drive away the existing userbase #its a bad look. this is your niche. play to it. thats marketing 101

[supernovasilence]

No. No no no no absolutely hell no.

(Diane Duane this is about tumblr not you you’re great)

Apparently tumblr has decided to give us note previews at the bottom of posts now and I hate it. Partly it’s annoying; if I wanted to see notes and replies I would click on the notes! The button’s right there! It takes an extra 0.2 second! This just clutters up the post layout without adding any functionality. But it’s also terrifying, because it is once again trying to make tumblr like other social media.

It’s trying to say “here is this Cool Thing (in our algorithmically-informed view). You don’t think/know yet you want to look at this Cool Thing but we know you want to look at this Cool Thing, because we know better than you what you should be looking at.”

See, this note is not the most recent note by a long shot, but it is by dduane/Diane Duane, who has been on tumblr a long time, pops up fairly regularly in the Star Trek fandom, and has written actual official Trek novels (among many other things). She’s probably the most “famous” note on this post (or what passes for famous/popular on tumblr). I’m guessing it’s not a coincidence hers was the note featured.

A quick look through the “tumblr update” tag shows people are also having issues like seeing terf comments previewed even though that’s the sort of content they would never willingly look at.

@staff @support​ @wip​ no thank you. We’re all still here because tumblr is the one social media that lets us choose what we see, not the algorithm. Get rid of note previews or give us a switch to turn them off. We don’t want them here.

#tumblr #tumblr update #view this note #note preview #note previews #nova actually posts stuff #am i overreacting? maybe #but this feels like staff testing algorithm-ing and if we don't shut down the little things then one day we get an update with #based on your likes and for you and in your orbit all switched on permanently y'know? #every time tumblr tries this we gotta make it clear we like tumblr the way it is #(nothing against the people who actually /do/ like note previews i just have not actually seen any yet) #(the reactions i've seen have all been either indifference or burn it with fire)

[sjokomila]

man idk why people think tumblr is really gonna shut down now. yes tumblr is a hellsite and it sucks, there are threats like this every 5 months.

regardless though, if tumblr does in fact, shut down. you can find me on (I kid you not) pinterest. <- link to my page

#milaposting #every other site sucks ass 12 times as hard as tumblr does im so sorry #pinterest is weird and buggy to use but at least it doesnt have the horrors tm #twitters horrible UI and userbase #instgrams horrible algorithm and cropping #tiktok's uhh everything? #blueskys horrible twitter themed UI #deviantarts horrible redesigned UI and ai integration #id use bluesky if it looked less like twitter #I get its supposed to be twitter but without elon but I didnt like twitter before elon got his hands on it either #I do have a bluesky though #might get on there when theres some xkit/tampermonkey style plugin and an ifttt thing so I can autopost #im also on discord if youre yeaarning to see more of my stuff #I usually post more things there and more regular updates and stuff #gotta update my linktree #I really hope this post isnt gonna age poorly because man #i dont want tumblr to die its MY emotional support rotting corpse of a webbed site

[autumnalfallingleaves]

So in light of Tumblr's whole thing (which is new-ish, I think?) where they won't allow you to change your icon/blog design until you follow some tags and people, I'll be holding off blocking default, blank blogs for a day or two. This means, if you're an actual person and not a bot with a new blog and a blank design, change that shit immediately. Give yourself an icon (that's not a sexy woman). Change your title and/or bio. Make a post. Just make sure people know you're not a bot, because those are still rampant and need to be blocked and reported.

#ALSO REBLOG STUFF PLEASE #it doesnt have to be anything you dont want on your blog #it doesnt have to be for a fandom you're not in #just. reblog stuff you like #dont just like posts- please reblog them too #thats how Tumblr WORKS there is no algorithm (that anybody uses anyway) that puts stuff on your dash #for that matter please stop tagging things with 'for you page' or 'fyp' because that doesnt work!! there is no algorithm that pays #attention to those tags!! the only 'for you page' here is the trending page!! #also dont cross tag with popular tags bc thats a one-way ticket to getting reported for spam #we dont do that here #beans rambles

[thirddeadlysin]

al gore did not invent the internet and name algorithms after himself so that a bunch of people could somehow believe there's an algorithm on ao3 suppressing fics from becoming popular (?????????) or whatever

#while we're here PLEASE stop editing your ao3 published date to put it at the top of a tag repeatedly 😭 #how long until a helpful person who wasn't there when the deep magic was written comes to tell me al gore didn't do either of those things #also like there's barely an algorithm on tumblr? you have to tag stuff correctly* and expand your network to be seen #(*use your audience-seeking tags like pairing and kink in the first four slots and pray tags are actually working that day/week/month) #(the tumblr recommends algorithm seems to run off likes and potentially your own follower number not reblogs btw) #(i know for a fact that my most popular posts only went viral-heights once my followers passed a threshold not the reblogs)

[calypsolemon]

oh boy I make ONE (1) post about fandom and tumblr immediately starts reccing me proship/antiship discourse posts. thats a very nice and normal thing to have happen and definitely not a sign of algorithms on tumblr leading to the same ragebait bullshit that plagues twitter.

#really REALLY do not like how those two things are apparently equivalent enough #that a mere mention of fandom will lead to some algorithm assuming you want to take part in ship discourse #where everyone just haphazardly weaponizes your trauma for meaningless fandom crap! #thats definitely what i wanted to see thank you tumblr

[animentality]

Nice try at a roast, kid. People actually like my writing though. I got three r/nosleep stories on the front page. What is you got? A book nobody wants to read? Kek you wokies are delusional. By the frickin way... my pronouns are fuck/you so don't misgender me!

oh my god guys, i've never gotten an ask that reeked so strongly of reddit

i could smell this guy coming from 2000 miles away.

a good thing too, because i sure am terrified of reddit toughguys. gotta pack my bags and get my things, or else he might give me a lecture on how minorities such as Women in video games signal the end of civilization as we know it.

he might Just Tell Me How It Is, or say Facts Don't Care About My Feelings, or even call me a Kid again. How will I ever recover?

#im also laughing at the idea that having a trending post on reddit is like #an achievement? #what a weird thing to be proud of #i go viral on tumblr all the time and all i know is shame lol #at least my books are something i made that is original and different #write a book anon #do something that matters instead of karma farming and sending anon hate #if you think youre a good writer then write something beautiful #instead of whatever the fuck this is #wasting your time sending me asks that ill just find amusing #ive been around #sporto #i strongly suspect im much older than you bc you come across like a 13 year old who just found his parents' iphones #the constant use of the word kid #as if youre not a greasy little insecure high schooler whos just hopped up on a tiktok algorithm of andrew tate imitators #this ask doesnt just reek of reddit it reeks of loneliness and tragedy #but theres hope for you #theres a chance you could turn around by your twenties and be rightfully ashamed of how you used to be #and thats why i forgive how embarrassing youre being right here and now #we all do embarrassing things as teens #one day youll cringe #or #or you wont and youll go down the reddit hole trap and end up a bitter 40 year old straight white man with no girlfriend wife kids or frien #friends #and youll wonder why the world hates you #and the answer will be that you hate you #and all of your mistakes stem back #to spending all of your time online instead of making connections with yourself and others #btw you should kno #you actually do smell

[boxchewr]

tumblr algorithm is such a special beast sometimes. so which of the random art and tech reference megaposts did i like this time that has now absolutely flooded my recommendeds with b*kud*ku fluff and x reader fanfictions "because of your likes!"

#text #censoring the ship name just bc i dont want it going in the search/tag. this is my question to tumblr alone #kinda wish all algorithms were like tumblr where you like some random thing and then it goes DO YOU WANT???? #SOMETHING COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO ANYTHING YOUVE EVER TOUCHED IN YOUR WHOLE BLOG'S LIFE??? #and im like yes tumblr. i dont want the posts i just want to see what you've gotten in your head that i like today with no evidence #it's sort of like dealing with my mother in a way. but with less misgendering

[sureuncertainty]

the anti-tiktok takes are so boring like oh my god y'all sound like boomers i thought we weren't going to do the "social media is evil but this time it really is, you stupid teenagers don't know what you're doing" thing to the next generations bc we agreed that it's dumb

#win rambles #one of my most Controversial Tumblr User Opinions right here: tiktok isn't evil actually #it's right up there with me liking taylor swift #and just. idk liking things in general #'tiktok is poisoning your brain' oh just like video games? just like facebook? just like tumblr? #and yes i know evil algorithm surveillance anti capitalism etc etc but cloaking it in your progressive language doesnt change #the fact that it's still a really ignorant take that's just people trying to be superior and pretentious #like we're all online we're all being tracked and fed algorithms you're not better and smarter than teens who use tiktok you're just older #and i'm saying this as someone who doesn't use tiktok bc short video format is bad for my ND brain #and the way people say this with their entire chest on TUMBLR of all places #like congratulations you don't use tiktok? what do you want a fucking medal?

[kicktwine]

usually I wouldn’t say anything because it’s nobodys business but I did just get fed up this week with my explore function working horribly and blocked a bunch of accounts for no reason other than you showed up in my explore or search one too many times and I got irritated at it so that’s why,

#if I remember I’ll go unblock a handful once I guess the search engine stops doing the thing it’s doing #kipspeak #(breathes slowly) curate your space…. it doesn’t matter….. inner peace….. algorithm is trying its best….. #you should get off tumblr more anyways……. et cetera. it’s been doing this for like a month #there’s no function for don’t show this user — like there’s no mute. I wish there was

[jacobglaser]

I love observing twitter fandom from the outside because things will seem peaceful for a few days then there will be a slew of tweets like "👏 writing 👏 fic 👏 about 👏 9/11 👏 is 👏 problematic 👏" and having to reverse engineer what happened.

#obviously dont use 9/11 as the setting for your ofmd au for christs sake #but its hilarious seeing the very serious call out posts about it on twitter when its actually not that serious #i could write an essay on the difference between twitter and tumblr fandom #or at least do a study because why is it so different?? is it an age thing do you think? or has tumblr just seen so much shit that anything #not as crazy just doesnt make a splash on here like it used to? #or maybe its just because tumblr is the only platform with a curated dash whereas twitter you're just seeing whatever the algorithm wants #so we just dont see as much of the weird stuff on here? who knows but i find it fascinating #one of the books i bought t'other day is about how fangirls made the internet what it is today and i wonder if itll get into this

[welpnotagain]

I wrote out like two quite long posts. Anyway it boils down to:

If you post something online, especially a subjective opinion, you are opening yourself up to be disagreed with. This is to be expected. You are not alone on the internet and it is not reasonable to act like you are receiving hate and/or are "being cancelled" simply because people are disagreeing with you. If you think your opinion is entitled to stay entirely unopposed you probably shouldn't post it.

#this is about something that happened to me like 3 years ago on tumblr and i just randomly thought about it and was annoyed #it was about some like mid twenties woman that was arguing about how great tiktok is and how most of the people that disliked it only did #so bc it was popular to do so. kinda like what happened with justin Bieber when he was a kid. #and my response was something along the lines of 'that might be true but there are a lot of things to dislike about tiktok as a company and #how the app is being used as a radicalisation tool and how it's algorithm promotes that bc that is what keeps people on the app etcetc' #and she went Off on me how i was clearly misinterpreting her points and how i talked down to her and how entitled i was #bc i wanted to farm notes by stating popular opinions and how tt haters were so annoying bc so many other people had also disagreed #and i should have just gone through the notes and reblogged one of those argumentstions instead of writing my own #and like??? girly why can you say what you think but i can't even agree with you to some extent but then point out flaws of an app not even #your opinion! anyway. i saw her response in my activity tab and apparently she blocked me but the @ still showed up for me so I actually #had to open her rant in an incognito tab so I could really get the whole 'yeah that IS the worst faith interpretation of anything i have #ever said' #well whatever. it just randomly popped baxk into my head and i was annoyed about the me yes but You?! no attitude

[crunchytoasts]

love that everyone has collectively understood the assignment and just started getting even stranger on here. the twitter users are going to disrupt the ecosystem and we must be objectively sillier bastards to balance it back out again. I don’t want to be marketable I don’t want to promote a brand I just want to have a conversation with a stranger on the internet with a username like cock-whacker-3000 about the shortcomings of the education system and then proceed to reblog a gif of a low poly rotating cat

#I'm not beyond the idea of just making things up #you know how australians trick visitors into believing drop bears are real #why don't we do that to the new twitter people #like yes you do need to tag your posts with scrimbly wimbly to get a wider reach #its just the algorithm trust me bro #tumblr #twitter

[arcane-trickster]

You know- I still have no idea how this URL wasn’t taken already what with the whole ‘dnd rogue subclass’ thing, but I kind of like to think I entered it in at the exact moment someone was switching it from an unused side blog in their horde of Names Most Awesome to their main blog URL, and I just sort of Yoinked it like an invisible hobbit snatching a particularly shiny teacup from the clutches of a red dragon.

#anyway yeah that probably didn’t happen but if it did it’s MINE NOW BITCH #*maniacal laughter* #the funny thing is this was ment to be like #an official account I would only use to post things for my YouTube channel #because I’ve spent so long on tumblr that the Twitter gui is incomprehensible to me #but still wanted to reserve a place to be like ‘videos come get your videos we got a new video fresh from the oven’ #since making videos is so damn fun that I’ll probably be doing this as a hobby for a really long time #(drugs have nothing on the feeling of Making Something that complex) #and also a dedicated geek out side blog to ramble about like the algorithm and stuff without attracting the attention of #*shudder* #Twitter Users #sounded fun #but when I got the URL and was like #holy shit #I can’t NOT use this one #(arcane trickster was actually one of the ideas for a channel name I had) #and now I post stuff more on THIS blog then my main one lol #which admittedly was more to due with not having any mutuals to embarrass myself to on this one #*glances mournfully at s’mores rant post* #kind of ruined that one for myself #but now useing this one is habit so meh #anyway yeah it’s been like at least a year (time is hard.) and I’m still cackling over getting this url #it occurrs to me that people might actually read these tags now and I’m not sure how to feel about that #speaking of the s’mores post I keep wanting to be like no stop stop giving this post notes WHY #but I have enough self preservation skills to know then it will get MORE notes #I am stuck in a hell of endless notes and have nothing to blame but my own hubris. #let this be a lesson- the the scarlet hue of fury loosens the inhibitions of mortal men indeed #anyway yeah favorite subclass url pog

[spiralling-spires]

I love when tumblr decides i’m in a fandom now and starts tossing TONS of fan content on my dash. Guess im a king of the monsters fan now (i have watched exactly one godzilla movie and it wasn’t that one)

#why does it do this #i mean its kinda funny #but tumblr’s algorithm is basically just the people you follow and like things from #and the people they follow and like things from #so you end up with a pretty homogeneous set of posts #and then out of nowhere BOOM now godzilla’s on your dash