Honestly the queue and schedule post options on Tumblr are extremely underrated. No other major social networking site has the ability to do that with the same ease as Tumblr does, and we’ve had them for like a decade now. They’re fantastic features and Tumblr doesn’t get enough credit for having them.
I’m actually willing to assert that Tumblr actually has some of the best site functionality:
- queue/schedule system
- tagging that doesn’t interfere with the actual content of posts
- the ask/inbox system
- ability to make likes/following lists private
- ability to reblog posts multiple times
- the “Keep Reading” feature
- ability to easily post different media. AFAIK Tumblr is the only social media site that lets you post audio without it being a video.
- dash is always in reverse chronological order
the ability to almost entirely customize your home page is pretty neat, too
I could go on about this forever but I firmly believe that Tumblr is a remnant from a time before companies figured out how to efficiently monetize social media, and as such it’s designed with users instead of advertisers in mind.
That’s both why it has continued to have active avid users in spite of a lot of technical /policy issues, and why it hasn’t been massively profitable.
I treasure this garbage site.
Also it is a blogging site in its core, with social network features.
The Chrome browser exists to show you ads and track where you go so that Google can show you more ads. Please stop using Chrome. Firefox is open source, and while Mozilla is not perfect, it isn’t actively fucking evil the way Google is. It has a bazillion plugins, including various (FREE!) ad block plugins (I recommend uBlock Origins, which will even block YouTube ads – you can watch videos without interruptions again!). It will also function very effectively with a lot more tabs open than Chrome. I’ve got around 800 tabs open right now (not loaded, of course, except for maybe 2 dozen; it’s been a heavy browsing day), and my wife has between 2k and 3k at any time.
We are in the New Browser Wars. This time there’s a helluva lot of money up for grabs, because a lot of it is about running those ads. Monopolies are bad for consumers.
Firefox plugins I 100% recommend if you don’t want to be tracked (and want to cost corporations money)
AdNauseam is an adblocker that generates false clicks on the ads it blocks, which costs the corporations that pay for them money.
Privacy Possum messes with the tracking data collected about you, rendering it essentially useless
TrackMeNot generates random search terms across sites, meaning that any data collected about things you actually search is buried in a sea of random bullshit. Makes it very hard for people to figure out what you’re actually doing. You can block terms in the options, which means it won’t search for anything incriminating on your behalf (I think the word bomb is blocked by default)
WhatCampaign replaces tracking analytics used in website code with data that can’t be used to track you. I’m pretty sure it replaces it with “fuck off” by default.
I’m not adding links because tumblr will not show this up if I do, but you can search these on the Firefox addons site and they’ll come up.
@luvinminutes It’s not a project, Firefox will automatically import all of your bookmarks.
Some parrots can carry a conversation better than i can.
