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hashtagloveloses · 9 months

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hi hashtagloveloses,

I'm a new user and saw your post about reblogs. Is there anything else I should pay attention to? Could you tell me if there is a post or guide or something I can consult on how tumblr works? I'm still getting really lost here and have trouble finding anything.

there’s actually an official staff blog with a bunch of good tips called @tips everybody should know about! but off the top of my head also:

1) make sure you have a profile photo. you don’t need a cover photo you can even just turn that off in your blog settings. this is to make sure people don’t think you’re a bot

2) have a different username here than you have other places and don’t share personal information of any kind here (huge mistake i made….). despite what some people say you do not need to share anything about ur sexuality, pronouns, diagnoses, opinions, etc. frankly if i could advise my younger self, i’d say just don’t make original posts or comments at all (if u wanna make commentary in reblog tags maybe?). use a diary or a journal instead of original posts about yourself or your opinions or comments on others’ posts. even if you delete your blog or change your username, the reblogs of things you say live on here forever.

4) reblog instead of like, and tag posts with what they’re about when you post and reblog (this is something i don’t do as much as i should bc im often on mobile and don’t feel like it and only do it for original posts). at least make sure you’re tagging for common content warnings and spoilers. don’t censor words in posts or tags if you’re trying to tag, bc that breaks people’s mute/blocklists. DO censor words/tags if you’re talking about something you don’t want to clog the tag for or attract attention to or something.

5) if you personally want to keep track of original posts, asks, and queued posts, create tags you use for each of those and on mobile manually tag with them every time you do one of those posts, and on desktop you can have an extension do it. in your blog settings you can make like your original post tag one of your “featured tags” if you want easy access, or other people to be able to see, which just means when they hit the search bar on your blog it’s suggested.

6) make sure you go to your dashboard settings and turn OFF “best things first”. i keep on the other algorithmic stuff like showing stuff based on likes as well, and i flip between the various feeds, but most of what you should be doing is following blogs that post or reblog what you like, following the TAGS of things you like, and those will appear chronologically in your regular dash “following” feed.

7) freely block, unfollow, and filter/mute people and topics. do not feel like you have any obligation to anyone. curate your experience on here.

8) turn off submissions on your blog, and turn off anon asks or even asks all together if you don’t want them. you are not obligated to answer every ask or even have an open ask box. you should also take a look at your settings for private messages and replies to set them to what you’re comfortable with.

9) how i use notifications is different than a lot of ppl bc i get a LOT of them but explore how the Activity and notifications page works to your favor, but turn off push notifs and as much as you can. followers, likes, etc, do not matter that much here if you’re not trying to build a following for art or something and you shouldn’t pay attention to it other than just for fun.

10) learn what T*RF, SW*RF, and white supremacist dogwhistles are and how to spot them bc they can still be prevalent on here and you may not realize. a lot of seemingly normal posts about feminism on here can be crypto t*rf shit so you need to learn how to spot it. (those kinds of posts spread to a lot of platforms and people don’t realize….)

11) do not get into discourse on here. of any kind. even if you’re right. some idiot will drain the life out of you arguing with you and people get weird. you’re not gonna convince people online of anything in a discourse fight most of the time and you will only come out of it drained or harassed yourself (frankly this is good advice for anywhere and sometimes even i slip up). in general even on here where engagement is not encouraged as much, every platform has engagement bait and discourse either purposely seeded to piss you off, or if it’s not on purpose it’s still pushed by algorithms.

12) for things like news, etc, this is general online advice but make sure you’re practicing basic media literacy to check how real a headline or a video or something is. what’s the source? how old is it? did they provide sources? etc

13) DO NOT REPOST ART. EITHER FROM HERE OR FROM OTHER WEBSITES. unless the artist says you can repost it (and you need to do so with credit, and look and see if they need to give permission). do not REBLOG reposted art either. you may find it in tags sometimes. do not encourage that behavior.

14) to that same end, do not post AI bullshit here. chatGPT, character AI, voiceover deepfakes, AI videos, etc. don’t do or support those in general but don’t post that shit here

15) in general, and this is something i try to tell people on EVERY platform, remember that what you see people discussing online is often a small minority of what most people think or feel. it may FEEL like everyone is talking about a certain thing, or fighting about a certain thing, but it does not represent the whole. there’s so many discourses where people are like “why do x always say y” and i’m like well they don’t. the very online segment of x often say y bc it gets engagement or bc they are very loud. (this isn’t the case for everything but it happens often for very stupid topics). this isn’t to dismiss important conversations had online by a minority of people that aren’t being discussed wider enough either - bc that also does happen. but that is often for things that are more important than like, the same movie sex scene discourse i see on twitter every 2 weeks.

16) don’t feel any obligation to your “followers”. you are not an influencer you are just here having fun, and your followers follow for the things you reblog, not for you. be FREE.

17) on desktop browser, get the XKit Rewritten extension and go wild with the settings. its a really nice tool and has a lot of good features, like the quick reblog and queue features that give you those auto tags and stuff. (also if you aren’t already using Ublock Origin extension as your adblocker on desktop, get that too).

18) if you have an iphone, apple store limits what they can show you within the app, so if you want to look at more NSFW, the mobile browser version of tumblr is quite decent. but also go to your blog settings on desktop and make sure your settings of what it is showing you on your dash include sensitive content (even if you set it to have a filter over it at first), bc it sometimes autoflags random shit as “sensitive”. also play with your dashboard filters with tags for nsfw content to your comfort - it wont remove it it’ll just put a thing over it so it doesn’t pop up in public accidentally before you click to look at it.

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starsmuserainbow · 10 months

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𝕘𝕖𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕜𝕟𝕠𝕨 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕒𝕦𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕣

name : Star or Starfire

pronouns : she/her

preference of communication : I don't know, IMs and/or Discord I guess? Though I'm a little hesitating on giving the latter away - feel free to ask though

most active muse : Uh, I'm always feeling Lightning and Moonshot a lot, so probably those two? Not really most active as in the most things I'm doing with them, though, sadly (also Mar'i currently kinda after the edit I made a few days ago)

experience / how many years : I'm not sure if I should count the guestbooks I did with a friend and my brother all the way back, so I'm just gonna say after that. My actual real public experience started on here, which is... almost 8 years by now.

best experience : Probably the time where I was able to throw out replies way faster than now. I usually managed to do all my replies every day, even if it were like 5 or so that I got back that day - such a difference to now. Also of course a lot of threads with people would be candidates for best experiences, but I don't wanna choose anything there so just all of the RPing on here in general.

rp pet peeves : Not really RP, but, I feel so tired of seeing a dozen posts raging or panicking about something tumblr does as soon as they do a post of some sort. Especially when it then turns out a misread or miswording of them or whatever, like this very recent 'panic' about them removing the chronological dash (which, I've seen multiple tumblr-people and the staff blog say is not the case) - don't get me wrong, I'm also not for an algorithm taking over by default and I think giving people a algorithm-dash by default for new accounts is kinda wrong and bad bc that's not what tumblr is (and if you don't know how to curate your own place then what do you even know, sorry but it's so easy and self-explaining and I just don't get how people wouldn't know about all of this by instinct), but, I don't see reason to panic or rage there. It's just what websites need to do, and we'll either find ways to live with it or, as much as I don't want that, another place to go to.

fluff, angst, or smut : Fluff and angst both, probably - I enjoy some piece and quiet and niceness, and challenging situations or pain are entertaining to have and write, too. No smut bc, well, I think most people knowing me know that by now, I just don't do that stuff.

plots or memes : I'm usually very bad at sending in memes. I think the reason for that is me always trying to pick something that works for me and can be continuned, but I'm also aware that not all memes are always continued and that's kinda already, lowering my urge to send, and then it needs to fit and I need to feel like not being a nuisance to people at that point --

uh, yeah. Point being, I'm very fine with both plots and memes, and I'm still trying to work on sending more memes to people, but most of the time if I am to initiate something, it'll probably happen through IMs and plotting. I'm always very happy to recieve memes though!

long or short replies : I think I prefer it if it's a bit longer than the very short things, but otherwise anything is fine. I'm not always able to make my replies very long either, it just happens. I think it shouldn't be about the length. As long as you write into your reply what you want to say and I do with mine, we should be good.

time to write : I... usually write during my evening. I don't know what else to say.

are you like your muses : I think it's probably normal that every muse has a piece of the writer to a degree. I could name things that I could see of me in my muses, but the list would be too long, so I'm just saying that there probably would be some thing I could list for each, but not as much to have them be me or something.

tagged by: @vartouhix - thank you!

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