made a tumblr because i saw two posts on someone's blog i was looking at that i had to share for myself and just... it just makes me feel sad. idk if it's just that i don't mesh with it or because of the color scheme, but even with a de-twitterfying addon it just... feels like i'm back at twitter being miserable again.
i don't wanna depressed doomscroll, cohost and its intentional design decisions broke that addiction twitter gave me, and now i can fully feel when i go to tumblr that it's trying to steal my soul for data gathering money or however it does business
i think i'll stick over here, this place doesn't leave a horrible taste in my mouth.
this is also why i cannot fucking fathom someone legitimately wanting to go to bluesky
you finally get broken from the hellsite that saps your energy and time for ad money and doomerism, a perfect excuse to start from a blank slate, and you just... go to a copy but with a "how much racism do you want" slider? why do you want that, why do you want to go back?
this site isn't perfect, but... i actually like existing here.
there's a reason no one calls cohost a hellsite.
this is why i loathe that so much of gamedev and particularly games journalists moved only to bluesky. i can scroll cohost and mastodon without feeling angry all the time, but i go on bluesky and look at my feed and it's all the same quote tweet dunking, outrage baiting, doom saying clout chasers that i was glad to be rid of when i got off twitter a year ago. it sucks
and like, there's so many choices for not-twitter, and they all decided to go with the one that's basically just as toxic AND has no DMs, no gifs/videos, no effective moderation options, etc. it's like, why did you pick the worst one both in terms of vibes and number of useful features?
