^^^^ YES. You don’t need to work for a boss at a company to get unionized. Your art by commission work is work and there is a place for you in the union.
hey netizens! i’m not sure how many people are aware, but youtube’s been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can’t be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate
BUT, if you’re a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!
reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3
Don’t Be A Coward.
Don’t be an escape plan trans that plays into the tories hands
if you run there’s one less mate to protect the poor yins who can’t escape
don’t be nice, don’t run away make the bastards rue the day.
organise and don’t back down because we’re the ones that own this town
A bunch of unpaid moderators on reddits are, effectively, on strike right now from the voluntary work they do to maintain the site’s many subforums over reddit paywalling critical API support.
Reddit have started banning the striking moderators and replacing them with scabs.
It’s very interesting– usually consumer boycotts struggle to do any kind of measurable effect, but the fact that reddit’s infrastructure relies on the work of hundreds of volunteers to stay functional makes it possible for them to take a fairly effective action. A union is any group of workers who are advocating for better conditions. It doesn’t matter if they’re paid or not. What they’re doing as unionising, even if it’s quite spontaneous and doesn’t appear to have a democratic committee
My advice to any mods involved with this: contact mods of other subforums and try to make a coordinated network.
anyway i honestly think rallying against generative AI or whatever you wanna call it is at best a distraction and a waste of time. the problem was never the programs. the concept of image generation is amorphous and materially unstoppable, but the companies using it as a justification for firing artists (which they would do no matter what) is. you can’t unionize against an AI, but direct action against the industry itself WORKS. when you attack the programs themselves you are shooting yourself in the foot and playing into a corporate fiction that disassociates the capitalists from their actions
really i think the reason the ideological well is so poisoned on the issue is that “AI” has a PR problem, it rose into the zietgeist because cryptocurrencies and NFTs crashed and the tech unicorn ranchers and their evangelists needed to latch onto something else. and because of that, the atmosphere around that persists even when the two really are not comparable. i have plenty of issues with the ethics of so called ‘artificial intelligence’ but the technology itself is almost completely irrelevant to them
Change your profile picture, blog header, and title to something other than the defaults. Do it right now. You will be mistaken for a bot otherwise, and blocked.
Go into Settings -> Dashboard, scroll down to Preferences, and turn off the options in the picture. This will get rid of most of the algorithmic stuff.
Turn off Tumblr Live. You have to snooze it once every 7 days for some stupid reason. It’s hosted through another company and will steal your data if you use it.
Go to your blog settings (under the little person menu) and turn off these two settings:
Turn off infinite scroll (lags the site) and turn on timestamps on posts, in the same menu as Preferences.
Basic Features of the Site:
Reblogs drive the entire site. If you’d upvote something on Reddit, you’d reblog it on Tumblr. You can add text, images, or tags to a reblog, but you’re not required to.
The dashboard is the equivalent to your Reddit feed, and contains the posts of all the people you follow, with the newest at the top
You can send an ask to someone, and it’ll appear in their askbox for them to answer. You can receive them too, or turn off the settings if you don’t want.
Tags aren’t actually used for finding stuff (search function is dogshit), but are more for categorizing. People also talk in tags. Because Tumblr is weird, you can’t use quotation marks (“) or commas in them without fucking it up
You can filter both tags and phrases under Account Settings; doing this will put a filter over a post that contains them, which you’ll have to click through to see the post itself. Useful for avoiding hate speech or blocking out annoying stuff
Likes are useless. They literally do fuck-all except send a notification to the OP.
Stuff Tumblr Does That Other Sites Don’t:
Very old posts (I’m talking from like 2012) often circulate on this site. There’s no such thing as a post being "too old” to reblog
Blocking is highly encouraged; you can block someone for any reason. Even for just being annoying.
If you and someone else are following each other, you are mutuals. Mutuals are fucking awesome and are treasured like friends. Mutuals are a thing on other sites but Tumblr treats em differently.
You can screenshot someone’s tags if you like them and add them to a reblog. This is called “peer review”
Sometimes someone will find a blog and go through it and like/reblog a bunch of posts. This is totally fine and not “creepy” like it is seen as on other sites.
Tumblr jokes often rely on Continuing The Bit and a “yes, and?” attitude. Goncharov is probably the best example of this.
We are fucking infested with bots. They will either have totally blank profiles or be filled with porn. Block and report on sight.
Censorship is pretty lax here. I can say “I want to brutally stab Elon Musk to death and watch him bleed out in front of a crowd” and nobody gives a shit.
General Etiquette:
Don’t try to do epic clapbacks here, you’ll probably just get laughed at or blocked. If someone is bugging you or spouting bigoted bullshit, block them.
Reblog art!!! Artists often struggle to gain traction on here; reblogging will give them a boost.
Not every reblog needs a comment or tag in it
You can go all out with tagging your stuff to organize it, or you can just leave it all blank. Someone might ask “hey, can you tag these posts as [x]?” and you can decide if you want to do that or not. It’s generally polite to oblige, but “no” is still reasonable.
Avoid discourse like the plague. Filter it, block people who start it, scroll past it when you see it. Just don’t get involved in it. Ever.
Don’t put fandom tags or jokes on someone’s posts about serious matters or personal shit
You’re responsible for curating your own dashboard; if you complain about constantly seeing stuff you don’t like, that’s probably on you. Don’t be afraid to unfollow.
Follower count doesn’t matter much here and you don’t have to make yours known if you don’t want to.
Reblog, don’t repost. Reblogging keeps the credit and doesn’t “steal” engagement like Twitter retweets.
If someone likes something a LOT, they might reblog it like 30 times in a row. This is normal
Having a post blow up is actually kinda a bad thing, since it floods your notifications. There’s a sort of in-joke about how having a big post is awful and people jokingly try to stop their own posts from blowing up, often in vain.
Tips:
Get XKit Rewritten if you’re on desktop, it’s a really helpful extension
In the little drop-down menu next to the ‘Post now’ button you can either save a draft, schedule a post, or add it to your queue. The queue lets you post things in order at a certain interval, which you can change. It’s good for spreading stuff out over time.
You can use Shift+R to quickly reblog stuff and Shift+Q to queue!
Filter your notifications under Activity - you can also see some neat graphs
Find each other! If you want your old Reddit communities to stick together, seek out other refugees and follow them.
Have fun on [tumblr], everyone!
I’ve added a bunch of new local bands to my punk bands list! check it out, you might find some cool music you’ve not heard before! https://dalmationer.art/music/punklist.html
