L.J. Writes

It was definitely by design. There's a reason something as badly run as Tumblr got to be such a big platform, and I was complicit in my own programming lol.

Funny thing is, I'm having more interactions on DW and Mastodon than I've been having for a while on Tumblr (aside from that shitty blowup). They're actually friendly and thoughtful interactions though instead of stuff like angry anons, and it's infinitely less draining and more enjoyable. It's certainly not Tumblr's breathless hang-onto-your-ass rollercoaster ride, and that's a good thing.

I don't put a whole lot of stock in swearing off social media or whatever, because for a lot of people that just means fewer opportunities and fewer social interactions. Heck, if I'd sworn off social media I would not have met my husband. But I have come to believe in the right kind of online interactions, by which I mean at the level people can handle given their individual situations and brain configurations, and open-by-design content-firehose architecture is not it for a lot of people including me.