Tumblr shenaned again
Mar. 17th, 2026 10:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
exiledfaeI should blog more.
Back at the turn of the century (shit I'm old) before the internet was so commercialized, when a beloved hangout died (I was in a lot of RPG chat sites back then - I forget the names of most of them but the longest lived one was IM-chat.com. Or was it .net?) someone usually who used to volunteer maintaining it would just take the code, tweak it, make it better, host it somewhere else.
You don't see that kind of ingenuity and passion anymore. Unless it's a tech bro trying to build the new twitter for bigger better nazis. But there were fewer people online back then too. I don't think that sort of thing can scale back down to someone's basement servers.
These guys used to run these sites on their home computers. Heck there was a guy who on the DL ran a whole site from his work computers - whenever there was an outage he had to drive an hour back to the office. He may have gotten fired over that, I don't remember.
This is just my way of saying that there's no real Tumblr alternative and when it shenans its last shenanigan, it will most likely just be gone. I don't think an employee of Automatic or whatever the company is called, will snatch the code and run it in their basement. And that will be a sad day.
I'm staying off Tumblr for a few days in protest.
I miss the internet that existed for the love of the game, instead of for shareholder profits.
Back at the turn of the century (shit I'm old) before the internet was so commercialized, when a beloved hangout died (I was in a lot of RPG chat sites back then - I forget the names of most of them but the longest lived one was IM-chat.com. Or was it .net?) someone usually who used to volunteer maintaining it would just take the code, tweak it, make it better, host it somewhere else.
You don't see that kind of ingenuity and passion anymore. Unless it's a tech bro trying to build the new twitter for bigger better nazis. But there were fewer people online back then too. I don't think that sort of thing can scale back down to someone's basement servers.
These guys used to run these sites on their home computers. Heck there was a guy who on the DL ran a whole site from his work computers - whenever there was an outage he had to drive an hour back to the office. He may have gotten fired over that, I don't remember.
This is just my way of saying that there's no real Tumblr alternative and when it shenans its last shenanigan, it will most likely just be gone. I don't think an employee of Automatic or whatever the company is called, will snatch the code and run it in their basement. And that will be a sad day.
I'm staying off Tumblr for a few days in protest.
I miss the internet that existed for the love of the game, instead of for shareholder profits.
