AwesomeJediE

there are many bots on tumblr and tumblr has some weird settings (like letting your blog train AI) be turned on by default - but you can adjust things

^ under blog settings you’ll want to only allow messages from who you follow or you’ll end up like me with 99+ bot messages bc i forgot to toggle this

^ turning this on means you won’t train AI

under the main settings of your account, there’s a lot of different options you could tinker with, but i would recommend enabling this under “Dashboard” so you can know if a post was made recently or in 2014:

speaking of 2014, @robcantor has a tumblr that hasn’t been used since then

i am also partial to the blog @is-this-rob-cantor and i would recommend it for you lol

overall tumblr is a wacky website that takes a bit of getting used to but it’s the only “social media” i really use / doomscroll on for better or for worse. the askboxes are fun, you can make multiple blogs under one account (like, if you wanted to make an art blog - it’s what saucelys does under @saucescribbles), queues are handy, and you can click “reblog” instead of “reblog now” to add tags that you can use to organize posts (kinda like making a pinterest board but under a tag type for your archive, like #tally hall) or add a train of thought (like #you can just add thoughts in the tags #and it is highly recommended #especially to help with engagement #since tags mean more than comments on tumblr #not that comments are bad either)

anyways. last note is that tumblr does not really have a working algorithm, so it’s ok to block accounts or hide tags. especially block accounts if they seem sus or like bots, lol. hiding tags are a nice feature, like once tumblr decided that i must be really really into wrestling so i can block tags or words related to it