Life in the post-tumblr world
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post_tumblr_fandomThe dust is settling. Work goes on in the federated/Hubzilla realm, although many of us are still waiting to hear about that becoming feasible for the less-technically-inclined. Discussions continue on the legal front, exploring what can be done with how much risk, but I haven't seen a public-release document on that yet. And fans have pretty much settled in wherever the diaspora took them: DW, Pillowfort, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Mastodon, Discord, and the many smaller and new sites that have been listed here in an earlier post. And of course, plenty of fans are still right there on tumblr.
A lot of fan activity, at least in some corners, consists of archiving old content in a new place. I see comments in a variety of places thinking about what tumblr did for communication style and feed contents, picking out the horrible and best-left-behind from the oh, hey, that was actually entertaining, speculating on how to regain some of the better bits of the tumblr experience.
And in the spirit of that last paragraph, over on Pillowfort heyheypaula has put together a survey for an academic examination of "Tumblr, Social Media, and Archives" and is asking for input from those who did and didn't leave tumblr. That survey link above is a direct one, for those who don't have access to the main post on Pillowfort and who might still want to participate. The OP doesn't state where they hope to publish this, but I've commented over there to request that information and that they share the results of their research with the community.
ETA: corrected misattribution of survey
A lot of fan activity, at least in some corners, consists of archiving old content in a new place. I see comments in a variety of places thinking about what tumblr did for communication style and feed contents, picking out the horrible and best-left-behind from the oh, hey, that was actually entertaining, speculating on how to regain some of the better bits of the tumblr experience.
And in the spirit of that last paragraph, over on Pillowfort heyheypaula has put together a survey for an academic examination of "Tumblr, Social Media, and Archives" and is asking for input from those who did and didn't leave tumblr. That survey link above is a direct one, for those who don't have access to the main post on Pillowfort and who might still want to participate. The OP doesn't state where they hope to publish this, but I've commented over there to request that information and that they share the results of their research with the community.
ETA: corrected misattribution of survey