One of the reasons I feel so comfortable using Tumblr over other social media is because this site is clearly too incompetent to be evil.
The basic business model of a social network is to harvest commercially valuable personal data and sell it, most famously via targeted ads. Anyone visiting my blog can clearly see that I am a queer furry who’s into video games and art. And yet I am only served ads for funeral homes, Bible story DVDs, and the current president’s reelection campaign (in 2018 for some reason)
Needless to say my click through rate has not been very good
Me: Runs a blog dedicated to dungeons and dragons and anime Tumblr: You know what, you strike me as a sporty type
I’m a social media manager for my day job and Tumblr is literally the only social media platform I can relax on anymore because it’s so incompetent when it comes to exploiting my personal data.
The tumblr personal data algorithm, trying to make sense of the hot mess that is my blog:
I’ve been on Tumblr long enough that I’m like 90 percent sure there are people still following me from the 2013-2014 boom days who’ve just changed their icons and their blog focus and their url and now I only have the general sensation that I know them for? reasons??? but no idea why
oh my god i think i found the thing thats been making my life HELL
blocking worked when it was just a random post from some blog i didnt care about but ive been getting notifs for replies to my friends/mutuals/etc posts and obv blocking isnt an option there
turned that fucker OFF and HOPEFULLY i will actually only get notifications for my fucking posts now jesus tumblr why do you do this
oh is THAT what’s happening
Please for the love of God turn this off.
It’s under notifications at the very bottom, in case anyone else has trouble finding it
Today’s tumblr glitch is *spins prize wheel* Uhhhhh everyone posts comments with no text, just 5 empty comments from different blogs one after another attached to every post.
