#Internet sites

[gawrkin]

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If you understood those titles in the Arthurian section, congrats! You're a true Arthurianist!

[officeobject]

LOL, Rodent reblogging this as soon as they see it, with my addition, is adorable.

What pushed me to make the Xanderweb, is the chaos that happened on Quotev, where people were leaving the side as the staff no longer let us chat. At first I worked to make the Xanderweb a comprehensible site at least a little a week, and added this and that, but my effort faded. This and my joking promotion of it, proved to be a good thing, as months later, my account would be reported (some asshole + the staff there are shit, DON'T GO THERE), so I of course took to the guestbook to announce and cry - I had my other social medias, and that's also how I re-found my real allies. The Xanderweb then became yet again less and less suitable for public viewing, needing more and more context for it all, as weeks passed after I made Tumblr (which was weeks after getting reported), but I still have my social media on the Xanderweb, and I still value it, and it's still my "if anything happens" - I don't have any friends on Tumblr, so it is what it is, and I don't think it'll shut down, but I merely have one other think linked on my long "about me", at the very bottom: my Xanderweb, see if anyone cares.

matt just fired half the remaining tumblr support staff lmao

[handbellanon]

There’s a certain irony to a website called the Sustainability Times posting articles with AI- generated images

[gfrino]

The revival of the passion for music in Locarno

Check out the new Dimensione Musica website We are proud to present the new website of Music Dimension, created by ticinoWEB. This site is a comprehensive showcase of the wide selection of musical instruments available in the store. As you are reading this, the store is still updating the range of instruments featured online, but we can assure you that whatever instrument you are looking for,…

[bearlyfunctioning]

Comic #357 : Enshittification - Website links here ~ This may be one of the worst times to be posting art online. So many platforms being swamped with A*I*, spammed with aggressive bots and algorithms that will hide you until you play their silly secret games. What else can we do but ride it out?

[sciderman]

well - webtoons is over, gang

[fudgycat]

everyone calling reddit social media is wrong

it's a forum and message board platform not social media at least not in the same vain as other social media sites it doesn't work like twitter or instagram or tiktok

and I think this is why everyone on tumblr is more accepting of their refugees and not twitters (besides the twitter refugees bringing old discourse back)

because tumblr is also not what social media is thought of nowadays it's a blogging platform. both tumblr and reddit are similar in that they both reflect the internet of old, when forums and blogs and personal websites were more popular, a time when you didn't post about every little thing in your life, when you could be anonymous

and no matter how hard the ceos or the staff of either websites may try they can never fully transform into the next twitter or whatever without fundamentally changing what these websites are. which would be a death sentence

people aren't coming to these websites for social media, they're coming for the community, for the uniqueness, for the long discussions they can have without a character limit, for information, for anonymity. to browse the internet without feeling pressured into posting perfectly fake photos and stories about your life in a desperate attempt for likes and attention

[heyimkana]

A compilation of Sung Jinwoo being a soft, gentle, protective, warmhearted gentleman 😌

(Eng Dub because Aleks' gentle voice is unmatched)

[qrowscant]

for TDOR

[allegedscreenlooker]

There was an era of my life when I was responsible for all Rooster Teeth and RWBY social media. In 2016, we decided to create a bunch of Valentine’s Day cards for the show. All but one was approved…

[unzip-your-guts]

I'm going to go off for a minute about the whole tumblr shutting down thing

I see a lot of people talking about how "no one wants to pay for tumblr premium and that's [part of] the reason tumblr is going under" and I'd like to address this specifically.

I remember when Tumblr announced they had badges, a shop, blaze, and premium people were really excited! Including me! We could pay to keep the lights on and maybe this meant we could get porn back! Tumblr generally wouldn't have to be beholden to "advertiser friendly" standards that not only affected nsfw creators but also a lot of just openly queer people on this site whose only crime was existing.

Then, Tumblr didn't keep their end of the bargain. The big visible issue at the time was transfems were being banned from the platform. Did you all forget Matt Mullenweg's harassment campaign against predestrogen? Remember how he FOLLOWED HER TO TWITTER and CONTINUED TO HARRASS HER after she left tumlbr?

Remember all the trans women talking about how they didn't feel safe on tumblr anymore? What about the sex workers who got banned for sharing sfw promos of their content? Or the artists who spoke up when Tumblr stole their work for their merch without asking?

We didn't choose not to give Tumblr money because "hehe tumblr anticapitalist". We chose not to give money to Tumblr and by extension Automatic because even when people were eagerly giving them money Tumblr and Automatic showed complete disregard for the same users they were asking to pay to keep this platform running. We made an informed decision to not give money to a platform that refused to put its users first.

Tl;dr: Tumblr's user base was perfectly happy to pay to keep the lights on until it became obvious Automatic and Tumblr didn't respect it's users enough to keep up their end of the bargain. The founder harassed predestrogen (who was a well known transfem user) off of the site, sexworkers being sfw were banned, and artist's work was stolen and used without their permission for merch. Automatic doesn't respect the users they asked for help.

Obligatory don't harrass staff regarding this, all of this is representative of a problem with Automatic, not the people who work for them and I imagine the meager team working on Tumblr is doing their best with the few tools they have.

[gfrino]

Blune Kids - Clothing with style for young and old alike

We are happy to announce the launch of the new website blune.ch, the ecommerce dedicated to fashion for children from 0 to 12 years old, where every detail tells a story of care, style and love. Blune is a small, family-run physical and online concept store, established in December 2022. The name is a very sweet tribute to the founder’s two daughters, Blue + June, to whom the project is…

[raavenb2619]

I’m not sure when exactly this happened, but I think it’s clear that the aro community really is a community, now.

For the longest time I’ve felt like we were still in stasis, not quite there; a proto-community, yes, but not quite a community. But we have more history now to lean back on, more of each other to talk to and laugh with and cry with and learn from. More people that’ll go forward and make a part of modern aro history. More people that believe us, believe in us, will stand with us if we ask them.

I wouldn’t consider myself an aro elder yet, though each year I’m surprised at how long aromanticism has been a part of my life, how long I’ve been free of doubt or insecurity about my aromanticism, how far we’ve come since I was questioning. Then again, when I was questioning, some of the people I looked up to for guidance were probably close to the age I am now, so I might be there sooner than I think.

And, I’m so so hopeful for all aros, young or old, new or not, because we’ve come so far. Day by day, progress is slow (and yes, it’s unfair, it should be so much faster), but looking back it feels fast. We are our own role models, the people we look up to for guidance. We carve our own path through life, making things up as we go. I used to find that terrifying, because I had no idea what the future would bring. But it’s actually amazing, because I can ignore all these silly “rules” and guidelines about what my life should be, and instead ask, “what do I want my life to be?”

Younger me, you have no idea how awesome your future is gonna be. I’m sorry about the pain and hardship you’ll go through first; it won’t be fair and you shouldn’t have to deal with it. But you’ll make it through, and one day you’ll be me. I can’t wait for you to get here.

[an-android-in-a-tutu]

if during drunk driving discourse people were allowed to say don't way in if you don't drink then I'm gonna need everyone who doesn't work in trades to stop talking about blue collar Dean Winchester

[olive-man]

early years

and more stuff down here

just doodles, and a very stressed out me. thought this was a perfect time to post since i’m actually going back to school tomorrow for my last semester of high school lol. happy late new years btw (oh and brony headcanon i got from @bonkerbuster69 . you are cooooollll)

[technofinch]

do you remember how we used to run...