#there used to be so many WEBSITES on the internet

[lambergeier]

truly can’t believe the entire internet used to be about playing little games. it was about having adobe flash and playing little games on nick.com

#spent just a few hours trying to find the old wild thornberrys wildlife rescue game tonight #turns out that game is officially 'lost media' #which sure is a weird term for something i so vividly remember playing for hour after hour in the evenings in 5th grade! #truly sometimes the ephemerality of internet media is not only bad but profoundly disorienting #there used to be so many WEBSITES on the internet

[spaciebabie]

"but spacie, i have no followers why should i reblog things" let me answer this question using myself, a person who has been using tumblr for almost a decade now, as an example. pre 2022 the most followers i ever had was like 125. most of them were dead blogs. killed in the porn ban or just people who had left for whatever reason. out of the people left who were still active, i had like 3 people at the most interact with my blog on a monthly basis. for years b4 this, i had ZERO FOLLOWERS but upon making my blog i saw all the other ppl who had been using this website longer than me talking abt how important it was ta reblog shit, and throughout all these years on tumblr, even when i had no followers i reblogged things. b/c i understood that it was integral ta the way this site functions.

now mind you, just b/c i had no followers didn't mean ppl wouldn't stop by and reblog things from my blog. every couple months id have a new person find me and reblog something. maybe they'd reblog a lot of stuff! the point is that id go months without any interaction at times and i STILL reblogged things because i knew people could find me and see something they liked on here. eventually people who frequently checked my blog ta see what i would reblog followed me!! im sure there’s ppl who dont follow me that ta this day who still reblog the stuff on here!! the point is that it genuinely doesnt matter how many followers you have. sure, it certainly helps, but ppl can still find and interact with the things on your blog without you having thousands or even hundreds of followers. so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE reblog things.

#spacie spoinks #i keep seeing this mentality and guys its genuinely harmful ta the site pls 😭 #tumblr is not a popularity contest your reblog MATTERS!!!!!!!!!! #a lot of the problems we've seen in recent years with reblogging is b/c yall are using tumblr like you would use instagram or twitter #please dont use tumblr like that #also scoop the rot out of your brain that says if you interact too much with your favorite blog on here they're going 2 hate you #if high school was an internet website it would be twitter (derogatory) #i wont hate you if you're constantly sendin me asks or messages i can just. distance myself. #if i get overwhelmed #im not tethered ta tumblr as if it was my only lifeline skjfsakjlfjkads #like there are so many ways ta customize my experience on here its chill

[tricksterlatte]

Anyone else think short form social media based on algorithms designed to promote topics that create more engagement instead of more joy, the idea of fast fashion but conveyed through social media, and the fact you can monetize suffering and outrage better than ever has largely resulted in the death spiral of media literacy and the mass emergence of bad faith readings?

#I may be venting a lil but god it blows my mind #fyp is a blessing and a curse because i don't think ppl were ever meant to be subjected to this many ppl at once #god i took a bird site hiatus for weeks and now BARELY check it and it already feels like a hit #oughhhhh #even fandom spaces have hugely incorporated marketing and networking into them bc of cmms and sponsorship and building portfolio #which would be fine tbh if it weren't for the way socmed is designed #now it's like you can't support too many ppl or else you're shadow banned or you have to make yourself palatable and marketable #and websites with threads in which people will only read the first post before qrting because ratios are seen as five minutes of fame #features that permit beating an algorithm are locked behind a paywall that promises you money if you go viral #and what goes viral is usually incendiary content meant for those ratios or trends. whether for or against OP #even in hobbyist spaces the climate has changed so much due to the monetization and marketing and just. ugh #not to mention side accounts dedicated to gossip in this new priv account culture like...idk #if you have to make another account so you can make fun of a friend on main with selected priv friends it just doesn't sit well with me #and not every priv account does this but enough do and it makes me tired #unsolicited hate comments are still as bad as they used to be on ff dot net except now people openly are proud of it more #why do most socmed feel like passive aggressive sticky notes on high school lockers #there is so much more I could say about everything that has left me weary about the internet but I don't know the time or place #and I don't want anyone to think this is about them because it's a general statement. though if you are doing the more inflammatory things. #maybe rethink that. it's not good for anyone else and it's not good for you either #I keep coming back online to check on ppl and see art and I *know* it's draining for my health every time #but I feel a lot better now that i use socmed less overall. and that I try to focus on what makes me happy #it just sucks seeing so many people i care about endure absolutely wild struggles bc people online do not care. #I like rambling in my tags because this is the only place I ramble except my personal journal and to my wife

[wildflowercryptid]

something that's been weighing on my mind ever since learning about the situation with ezra / toonimal is seeing how these predators will take the active hostility that is frequently directed towards minors in online spaces to their advantage and use it to prey on vulnerable children. i think that we as adults in online fandom should probably come together and maybe rethink the language / manner we go about interacting with kids bc clearly the way things are rn is causing active harm.

like obviously, if you're an adult and aren't comfortable with minors interacting with you or your content, you should be allowed to set that boundary and should be vocal about it, ( especially if the content you create isn't safe for them to consume. ) but i don't think talking to them like they're a blight on all that is good and holy is the way to go about it. maybe just saying you're an 18 plus account will suffice, you don't have to tell them to fuck off.

#i'm opening myself up for ppl to leave the stupidest takes on this post but whatever i need to get this off my mind #before anyone says anything about the kids on that website. they're grooming victims. they're literally kids being taken advantage of #show them some fucking kindness and be understanding that they're the victims in this situation #idk what it is about becoming an adult that causes so many ppl to lose their empathy towards minors it's weird #like yeah kids can be annoying and pushy on online spaces sometimes but a lot of them are old enough to know online etiquette lbr #alot of us were annoying kids on the internet at some point we should understand that you don't just. get a handbook for how to act online #that's shit you learn overtime but ppl seem to forget that #they also seem to forget that talking down to kids isn't gonna teach them shit they're not gonna listen to you if you treat them like idiots #what i'm trying to say is that we really need to talk to minors more respectfully and maybe give them a little grace #( obviously there will be situations where some of them need to be yanked up by the collar but there's ways to go about that >>> #without treating them like shit ) #these kids need to know that there's spaces for them to be online safely without having to stumble into places that'll pray on them #we all know how much it sucked to be a kid online we should want better for the ones coming in after us ya know #sorry if this comes across as preachy it just breaks my heart and boils me blood to see kids being taken advantage of like this #especially when there's ways to prevent it idk #how do i even tag this.... #mj.txt #there's trigger warning on the linked post btw #tw csa mention

[reliccipher]

just ended up sending in feedback about the layout to support. But I have to say it here too, this new layout is such a pain in the ass to figure out. I hated twitter's layout for the same reason, its so annoying to use and everything feels so cluttered and squished in and distracting... it's actually headache inducing.

I really wish I had the option to switch back. I wish there was an option to CHOOSE between the two layouts. I wish I had the choice to opt out of "testing" this thing.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" really should have been brought up before they even tried making this. It was fine before, and now the new layout is completely different and frustrating when it didn't need to be.

If I wanted Twitter's layout, I would have just fucking gone to Twitter.

#tumblr update #tumblr upd8 #new layout #i'm so frustrated #i didn't want this at all #this was the last website I actually felt like I could navigate #youtube has become annoying to use #twitter is atrocious #i don't want to touch facebook with a 40 foot pole #instagram seems like a pain in the ass #it's slowly looking like I should just cut the line and quit using the internet altogether #but i'd lose all my opportunities to actually have a social life #and i wouldn't be able to share my art #but AI is ruining that too #and my social situation is such a complicated fucking mess #Like I want to reach out to some of my old IRLs but I don't know what they think of me or if they even want to hear from me #I deleted my discord without warning in 2020 and I feel guilty about it. And some awful shit was happening and I should have talked to them #idk. sorry for the dump. might delete the more personal tags later #it's just depressing seeing everything fall apart like this when I already feel like I have too many holes in myself to patch #or maybe this is just what my 20s are gonna be like. I hope not.

[catbountry]

Remember when May the 4th being Star Wars Day was just this little internet thing and not used as a vehicle to push a bunch of Star Wars merch that only makes sense to wear one day of the year?

... I do. Barely.

At least International Talk Like a Pirate Day will remain untainted because it is the dorkiest, least cool internet holiday ever and I imagine most zoomers don't even know it exists.

#seriously so many websites would use word filters to make writing more pirate-y #this was the age of the Ninja Zombie Pirate kind of internet humor #we weren't cocooned in 15 layers of irony yet #Talk Like a Pirate Day is just the most gen x nerd thing ever tbh

[hallufabrication]

Woe! Adam edit be upon ye

#saving an audio in like 2020 on ig was a good idea bcs i finally got to use it now. thats the internet version of hoarding small trinkets #bcs of the 0.1% chance you'll use them for smth #anyway i know tumblr isn't exactly the Edit website but i am not going onto tiktok nor instagram. so this goes here #dont expect too many of these from me i made like 3 and will only post 2 of them here. idk if ill make any more #droners #droners adam #droners edit #droners season 2

[fiendishartist2]

the bar for "revolutionary" webhorror is so low. what happened

#god lord im so sick of itttttttt ToT #if you dont know analogue horror is on is deathbed and now ppl are onto ''digital horror'' #which is the same thing except using digital mediums instead of analogue (like the internet instead of vhs) #and i do mean the same thing lol nothing has changed #not the conventions of storytelling not the limitations of the medium not the types of scares it presents #the only thing that has changed is the aesthetic. and that is unbelievably sad #if youre going to do a horror series based in the internet then why not.... actually use the medium of the internet for horror #theres so many scary things about the internet (esp early internet!!!!!) and yet no one is using that for their series #just the same old ''missing children's spirit communicating through tape oops i mean the website :)'' like cmon man.... :( #why not use things like viruses or the sudden connection to any and everyone through the internet or early hoaxes/creepy ads #lack of regulation on the early internet or the isolating/uncanny aesthetics of old hardware (kid me was so scared of computers lol) #or literally anything else that is DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO THE MEDIUM YOUR SERIES IS BASED ON #does anyone else on earth care about this or am i just picky??? hello??? #i just want smth that leaves a genuine impact. i just want a series that feels like smth thats never been done before #i just want webhorror that knows what it wants to be and fits neatly into the confines of its medium #petscop felt like a real videogame. it felt like smth i could see in an ''obscure ps1 games youve never heard about!!'' video #it had a will they wont they about whether or not the game was actually talking to paul (through ghosts or other users etc) #but it was never in your face and it was left just vague enough that instead of breaking immersion it sucked you in even more #paul felt like a real person playing a real game and experiencing genuine fear and obsession alongside the audience #there was never a point where the screen started turning red and pauls voice became distorted and ''scary'' while creepy imagery popped up #bc petscop works entirely within the limitations of a man playing a videogame. no more no less #thats the kind of dedication to the medium that i want!!!!!! #i only critique webhorror so much bc its my favourite type of horror and i want it to improve

[destroyyaa]

Good gravy spacehey is really cool cause of all the customisability of the main pages and stuff but.... it feels like an armpit

#aeon.txt #its not the websites devs fault at all #its just there are so many teens posting super personal stuff #AND IM HERE LIKE MAYBE DONT BROADCAST THIS TO THE INTERNET WTF #also there was someone with a dmc profile but ended up being a red pill idiot #like i forgot people like that exist outside of my tumblr bubble that im used to #anyway now that ive got the coding bug im so tempted to redo my entire tumblr theme so be ready for that #oh and if you did wanna add me on spacehey lemme know ill give you my username to add me ehehehe

[vriskaserketdaily]

60x60 vriska drawn on my friend’s in-browser etch-a-sketch (also my house has wifi now hell yes)

#vriska serket #homestuck #mod 8 #daily vriska serket #vriska #daily vriska #vriska homestuck #homestuck vriska #for context i live in a rural area that still doesnt have broadband so when im not at uni im posting on my phone #& have no incentive to use my puter bc theres nothing on there #but last wednesday i got a fancy clicky clacky keyboard and NOW we have sattelite internet SO i am now in my 21st century era #anyway my friend is super cool and epic this website thingy was coded almost entirely from scratch #u can adjust the size of the grid & colors of the pen (so many colors) it's so much fun

[snekdood]

anyways i think ive posted this before but the ADL and whatever "rational wiki" is (heard something negative abt it once idk what its about but) both have good index's on dogwhistles to look out for, of course for some things its hard to tell but take context clues and if they use a bunch of other dogwhistles into consideration if you suspect someone is alt right, also consider that some people are essentially taught this stuff w/o context of what it really means sometimes and might just use dogwhistles bc they dont know any better (thinking of minors here mostly). either way gauge for yourself if its safe enough to stick around to find out.

#dogwhistles #theres plenty of other websites i could link but i linked rational wiki specifically bc their index is bigger and includes more #niche internet dogwhistles than the adl one does. #that could also be because a lot of those niche internet dogwhistles are intentionally made with plausible deniability so the ADL #doesnt wanna list them lest they get accused of being paranoid or some shit. idk. #but i *will* say- some of these things isolated- like liking runes and pine trees.... i dont think is enough to work off of #(mostly speaking for myself on that last one bc i love pine trees and i used to like runes but never saw it in That way......) #and also some ppl are trying to reclaim pepe. esp since the guy who made it hated that neo nazis took him and did this to him #so ppl try to reclaim it. that also requires context to sleuth out if someones using it as a dogwhistle or not #in fact bc so many leftists were reclaiming pepe they decided to make a new one called a 'groyper' which is like. an obvious telltale sign #that person is a neo nazi if theyre using that one. #i also think its worth mentioning that theres a certain subsection of internet leftists who like to use these internet alt righters #terms to lure them in to truth and reality (see: vaush) it's like a meeting them at their level of understanding thing #it also shows them that you're not intimidated by their 'Secret Language' and can see it for what it is so if they try it on you #you can still counter them. so once again context matters. like if vaush is talking about someone 'hiding their power level' its him #acknowledging that thats a term they use in reference to hiding how deep in the rabbithole they are and making fun of them for that fact #bc theres something so inherently sad and funny about being that self aware that you're deranged that you gotta have a phrase you #use to hide it lmao. #not saying its great but. it seems to work at least to some degree in deconverting ppl from the alt right

[isawken]

i've been learning basic html to make my own website and looking at old geocities sites for inspo and i've been doing a lot of thinking about how web 2.0 took away so much of the versatility and potential of the web and deprived so many people of the ability to learn to make things themselves, things that are 100% theirs and not vulnerable to the whims of a feeble-minded thin skinned billionaire, and i could do like a whole thinkpiece on that loss and how we need to encourage a movement to return to that but right now. i'm looking at old gifs. and i don't mean to be hyperbolic but i think this may be when human design and creativity peaked

#anyways make a neocities account #building a website and learning basic ass html has been so fun and rewarding #even though it is admittedly kinda hard it was easier than i thought it would be #and there are templates you can use and website that freely give you code to steal #it has been so cool to go through and see like. people and sites offering up so many resources for free to encourage ppl to make their own #it's just cool y'all #html #webcore #old web #old internet #neocities #kenposting

[project-wildcard]

Does anyone have anywhere good to post original works or Tumblr just the best place left?

#oc #original character #queer oc #oc writing #writblr #writeblr #writing #book writing #what happened to the internet #we used to have so many random and active websites where you could just put shit #now we have like 2 webistes for posting more words than a single paragrap

[yousaytomato]

Tumblr really is one of the last defenders of the: "ooopsy wooooopsy~ looks wike we had a wittle accident 👉👈🥺" style of error message

#there's something else i want to talk about re: old(ish) internet #that i kind of didnt realise had happened #I'll soft launch it here but i might make a full post of it yet #at work i like to watch edutainment vids in my breaks #because they tend to be 15~ mins long and also have subtitles #so I've watched all like to/m scott. map men. #and i started watching old vsauce Micheal here videos #and they don't really seem like 10 year old videos. like the style of them really holds up #EXCEPT probably 5 times a video he'll show us a 'really awesome website' or whatever #like. so many websites with really useful tools. or just showing information. or that are just kind of fun and interesting #like. websites built to do specific things and that share information in unique ways #and like. i remember so many websites like that. even some games that played with the concept #of what a website even is. what are the limits. projects that were not only interesting in themselves #but the way they were presented was slick and fascinating and interactive #do y'all. do you remember that? #there was so much of that 10+ years ago #where did they go. do they still exist? are they still made. are the old ones even still up or did costs get too high #and traffic too low #because i also don't remember them having ads. or maybe they did but just banner ads that went unnoticed #woes of emily

[echthr0s]

idk why everyone's so scared of reddit. reddit is like the akashic records to me. when I have a specific question about anything 9 times out of 10 I get the best results from doing my search with the "site:reddit.com" filter added. reddit fully introduced me to the delightfully insane rabbit hole that is TES lore. reddit is where I found out about the lifesaving (hyperbole, but only barely) properties of Gold Bond powder -- and NOT all the damn commercials I had to hear from them on the radio in the nineties. reddit is where all the people with the same ultra-specific tech problem I'm having have gone to beg for answers. reddit is without a doubt the one place where all the most autistic people in the world congregate to write dissertations about whatever hyper-niche thing they care about because somebody on reddit is gonna give a fuck, and if not, then some future person doing a hyper-niche google search will be incredibly grateful for it

reddit is also the best source for hobby drama, fun bots (there was a great Ben Shapiro bot in my city subreddit recently, lmao), people being demonstrably weirder and more unhinged than you (if you're like me and sometimes need that bit of perspective), people being exactly as weird and unhinged as you (thank god I'm not alone), people having the funniest relationship drama imaginable (offsets the people who are having the most awful relationship drama imaginable), legendary stories that are so indescribably cursed that you will never recover (the jolly rancher that was very much not a jolly rancher comes to mind...), and learning way too much about a subject you hadn't even cared about until you hit the 'random subreddit' button and got introduced to your new sudden-onset hyperfixation. also, poem for your sprog is there.

#like yeah people get mean sometimes but where pray tell is that NOT true #i may just use the internet wrong but i really do not run into nearly the amount of assholes that everyone else seems to on ANY website #or maybe i'm just not succumbing to negativity bias. idk. hard to say #but frankly i've seen so many people be incomparably kind to people on reddit that it feels kind of fucked up that- #-people never talk about that when they talk about reddit. like fuck those kind people i guess. that one asshole is way more important #smh. anyway!! i love reddit it's great #also honestly if you want to stay current on anything from a video game franchise to actual current events #subscribing to the appropriate subreddit is honestly your best bet

[flavia8]

I hate you "Read 10 more episodes on the APP" I hate you "This page looks better on the app" I hate you "Log in to app to view" I hate you "Have you tried the App" I hate you "Click to install app" I hate you "Continue in the app" I Hate the Slow Degradation of Desktop and Laptop functionality!!

#websites #apps #the internet #Honestly yeah someone has done this already BUT I am especially peeved rn #BC I like to read webcomics on desktop bc I can see the art better! but Webtoon has applocked so many of my favorite series #I read them as far as I can officially on webtoon but with the way their stupid day passes work and them being app locked #I'm sorry to say I end up reading them on other sites that I can access the webtoon on my laptop #Not really that sorry tbh just to the authors and artists everyone else involved can choke #app #webtoon #reddit #Yeah I know its for advertisers and information acquisition and keeping people engaged on 'your' site but I HATE IT #I'm a binge reader the day passes being temporary is fucking awful #I also (newly discovered) have ADHD so remembering to actually use them before they expire is also a BITCH to do #Sorry for the rant I am bitter and it will probably never change