Solid Sky

i think part of the reason lost media videos are so fun is that it more ethically scratches the same itch as true crime. a bunch of people online being amateur sleuths and going down rabbit holes is a lot easier to enjoy when theyre looking for a cereal commercial from 1991 instead of liike bothering the families of murder victims

I get why people feel annoyed with the “you’ve got to make or reblog posts, not just like stuff” advice that pops up a lot, but it’s just nice to use a social media platform in this good old way with content being circulated by its users rather than by algorithms. One of the reasons I enjoy it is that you can choose to follow few blogs and actually reach the end of new content on your dash rather than having an algorithm spoonfeed you an endless stream of content to keep you scrolling forever. And with tumblr recently making an attempt at having an algorithm, I worry that without posts reminding people that reblogging is the preferred way to interact with posts on here, new users will rely more and more on likes and based-on-your-likes and in-your-orbit and assume that’s how content gets seen on this platform, when really a lot of people turn these functions off or don’t pay attention to them so as to keep this website mainly user-curated with little to no input from algorithms.