I'm April. I'm a web developer who builds stuff for [tumblr].
I helped maintain New XKit from 2017-2021 and I'm the author of XKit Rewritten, a project I started in 2020.
If you want to help out with XKit development, you can read the documentation and find an issue to work on.
The nature of Tumblr not showing follower counts is that every mid-sized blog will have a small subsection of people absolutely convinced they're following/mutuals with a celebrity.
i really appreciate cats for having such an unshakeable suspension of disbelief, the toy i'm holding will jolt as i sneeze and they Do Not look at me. they're still looking at the toy. talk about a captive audience
y'all are absolutely free to use tumblr however you please but I want redditors to know that they could, hypothetically, start a sideblog about a particular topic, add moderators to it, turn on submissions (and asks), make an "about" page laying out rules and such, and create a good tagging system. If you want it to be a bit more familiar.
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Honestly the reddit API thing kinda has me freaked out. Not that I care too much about reddit specifically, but it's a sign of just how much borrowed time social media is really on, how much pressure there is and how little money is really left to go around. "We" all knew back in 2008 that none of this was built to last, that everything would collapse when it couldn't turn a profit. It kept proving us wrong somehow, but it looks like that might finally be over.
I hope tumblr stays around for a few years at least. I hope even if it doesn't, that it doesn't just go down one day, never to return. And I hope when it finally does go away, as all things do, that there's still something left, either Discord or some new platform, or hell, even irc or forums if nothing else. Just.... something. I'm not sure how I'd ever manage to talk to anyone like me otherwise. If this is the end of the golden age of the internet, I have to say I wish I'd been less productive the last twenty years and spend more time goofing off while it lasted.
minecraft runs on steam deck 👍 why is my elbow hurt
alt text: photo of a small dog sitting on a lily pad
caption: look at this fucking picture of my sweet little dog sitting on a massive fucking lily pad
several people in the reblogs: #undescribed #no id
