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Principal investigator at an undeserving midwestern university. I am ill-tempered and well-endowed. Beware.


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shiny-ralts
@shiny-ralts

you know how we all told the reddit and twitter refugees that tumblr doesn't have an algorithm and you have to curate your experience by following tags and reblogging stuff and finding people to follow?
i am grabbing you by the sides of your head for emphasis here: that's real here.
it was mostly real on tumblr but here it is VERY real. there is not even a for you tab here. you HAVE to curate your own experience. i know it sucks having to rebuild all of that but there aren't porn bots here


doctorwednesday
@doctorwednesday

It kinda blows my mind that people have apparently been trained out of, I don't know, making friends and social connections on their own


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There are some other, older spheres on the internet where I've had some discussion of the state of social media. In those conversations, people insisted that they disliked Twitter alternatives (of most every kind) because they were "empty".

A little more probing revealed that they actually were displeased that the platform wasn't shoveling unrequested content into their maw. They wanted brands, celebrities, and randos they'd never heard of filling their timeline.

I realized then that I tend to use social media very differently than some people.