For me, Tumblr was an online culture different from the ADHD of other journaling/blogging platforms like Instagram or Twitter. You could find conversations in tags, gifs didn’t lag my browser to hell, fan content was proliferous there, webpages could be personalized to the lengths you might’ve gone to in MySpace. It was the place to find fandoms and fandom content, even for the most obscure series. There were no ads. And I felt like gifs/texts of porn and kinks were made more accessible when searched for by tags.

There was no algorithm - discovery of new blogs was just subscribing to tags & maybe following who your followed-people followed, the way the fediverse kinda is.

I felt like the presentation was good to relish each post of content with less distraction, and the pagination + scroll browsing was just enough to keep me addicted.

Someone correct me if I’m remembering it wrong.

RIP 2011 Tumblr

Wuff-fern

@gabboman@app.wafrn.net ,

Is registration on the wafrn website backlogged? I submitted a registration bout 12 hours ago, and the registration page said to wait a few hours for review. Got nothin in my email just yet. Not that I’m antsy, and there’s no rush; just hoping to know when I should follow up to log in :u

I didn’t get any email confirmation about my submitted registration, I realize. I refrained to keep from spamming, but… Should I actually submit another? :x
Edit: think I saw the fdroid app & submitted my registration form there, mentioning in case it’s relevant

Thank you for this! I’m not sure how I would’ve found out about Wafrn otherwise, lol

Does the laptop have any Fn key perhaps? In case all your F keys are set to media keys.

The stars! They are not in position!

I used to be able to point to ling’s cars as a holdout of fun web page design, but they’ve changed v.v

https://web.archive.org/web/20110108151026/https://www.lingscars.com/

Replaced the top cover on my case for one with fan mounts. And mounted slim fans.

It’s nice to have the warm air blow upwards instead of into my face sometimes

Me, finding out this exists after buying a used sff HP pc and wondering why it won’t display out to any new monitor unless I unplug and plug the power cord: 💀

Luckily (or not so luckily), I was able to turn off the HP “security feature” from the bios. The pc came from a former school fleet of sff pcs

It was the Muse album Drones that I bought from the band’s website. I thiiiink I shared a link to the folder to my netbook with a different account to download to, and then I didn’t notice til later (maybe it was a week? A month?) the folder of just this muse album was empty.

Idr checking the trash can for my Google drive or anything. I don’t think I got a notice because I searched “copyright” in my emails circa 2015, and nothing related to removing my files popped up.

I downloaded music I bought online and copied it to my Google drive once. This was years back, mid 2010s, this album just came out for my favorite artist back then. I’d downloaded it back to another pc and a week later - poof. No more mp3s. @.@

Edit: just that folder of that album’s mp3s, not my whole music library back then, just to be clear. Still, that was my first big burn from cloud services.

Wdym by mobile?

I almost went into the low voltage field, but realized with a bit of job shadowing that my commutes could be unpaid and unpredictable between changing jobsites. I guess that depends on the employer, and goes for any construction-related trade.

As a yank, I can assure you I made the same

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Question, what platform do elderly/disabled people prefer for tuning in to streams? Or what could you recommend?

Not that I’m planning to do this myself in my community rn, but I might be moving to a sleepy neighborhood later this year. If I ever want to set something up like this, it’d be cool to have something easy-to-use to suggest.

I second sticking to social media platforms without an algorithm feed. When I scroll lemmy or mastodon, I feel satisfied sooner that I’ve seen what I’ve wanted to see, and actually get tired of content.

Damn… Thanks. I didn’t realize why reading OP’s post made me cry. I empathized real hard because this is kind of my life, emotionally. This puts it into perspective.

I remember hearing somewhere, and believe, “a person can do a bad thing, but that doesn’t make them a bad person.”

Know where can I find a breakdown of the symbolism behind the intro?
For me, it’s hard to watch. I feel like I got bungeed down into the deepest depths of the bottomless Uncanny Valley, coming back up covered in oily black ooze, but I look down at its just my hands, my clothes, my normal skin. I think I’d appreciate it more if I knew what and why what was going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HY-2mMcq9Y

Wish I knew where to watch this documentary. I remember it being a fun watch

Where did you download krita from?

There are* teenagers