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turing-tested-and-denied · 2 years ago

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UUUHHHHH SIGNAL POSTING

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tonysinterested · 7 years ago

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A week ago, an artist I know had their blog deleted. This artist was an almost entirely clean artist. They weren’t the type of person Tumblr is supposedly targeting. Tumblr didn’t actually care. Tumblr nuked their blog anyway.

The problem Tumblr is that it’s designed primarily to extract ad revenue, and that inevitably leads to a terrible user experience. Internet advertisers want you to be engaged with the places they advertise in the worst possible way. In TV advertising, where the advertiser wants you to be highly engaged with a show so that you associate those positive feelings with the ads that play during the breaks. Internet advertisers only want immediate clicks—short-term, instant payoff. If you’re engaged with the website, you won’t want to leave it, and you won’t click an ad. So an internet advertiser wants you to be on a website out of social obligation only.

It’s why Facebook is so successful. You need to go on Facebook to keep up with people. When you keep up with people, you see that they have a lot of nice stuff. You feel bad for not having that nice stuff. But look! All these ads where you can buy nice things. Then you’ll feel good about yourself, right?

Tumblr has spent enough money at this point that they need to maximize ad revenue, and that means they can’t give a shit about artists anymore. In fact, it is to their advantage to actively minimize that kind of content on their platform, because art can reduce the social pressures that they’re trying to cultivate. So why wouldn’t they delete that artist’s blog? If they had some kind of controversial content, it could cause harm to their advertisers—and, more crucially, delivering good artistic content at all is already a negative for them. Nuking that blog on the slightest suspicion of controversial material is a win-win.

I’m tried of this cynical, ad-revenue-based approach to content cultivation. Internet advertisement actively works against the creation of content that people want to engage with. And, frankly, it produces websites that mostly suck.

After that artist got their blog nuked, they got to talking. Talking with me, and talking with other artists. Together, we decided to try to make something new.

That’s what the link up there is. It’s not a fully-featured website. It’s not even close to being finished. But Tumblr is introducing new rules that are going to be selectively-applied to make their experience even worse, and some kind of alternative needs to exist.

ArtWorkDraft isn’t designed to be sold for a billion dollars to Yahoo. It’s designed to be a good place to post stuff. It’s run by a group of people, not a corporation. We develop it based on what people actually ask for. Hell, it’s even open-source, so you can actually look at the code behind it, and change it if you think you have a good idea.

I’m kind of sick of “transparency” because it implies a window: you can look, but you can’t get through it. You can’t actually change anything, you can only observe.

ArtWorkDraft is supposed to be a door. I’m not sure if it will work, but I feel compelled to try.

Art is too important not to.

#art #tumblr #effort #project #announcement #call to action #signalpost #signal post

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vellchro · 7 years ago

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somuch4summerlove · 4 years ago

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i'm not fake i'm

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#brambles #that's what i'm calling my miscellaneous bullshit textposts now #signalpost #textpost #rambles #also do u get it #b rambles

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thevagueambition · 4 years ago

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tbh i feel like we’ve all validated the teenage instinct to be like “and i’m this and that and this and also this and it’s very important you know My Labels, because That’s Who I Am” in adults too much lol

as someone who was A Nerd INFP Introvert Potterhead Ravenclaw Bisexual Demiboy With Mental Ilnesses(tm) when I was younger, I promise you it’s way more chill to Just Be and let people find out what they need to find out through the process of getting to know you

obviously i’m not saying you should hide your sexuality or that demiboy is a fake identity or whatever, I’m saying that signalposting every word you use to describe yourself at people isn’t actually helpful. putting too much stock in specific labels can be so stressful, too -- this person who’s an introvert has this experience, so am I now Not An Introvert? Oh no, I didn’t know about that, am I a Fake Nerd? Wait, which definition of bisexual is the correct one, am I faker? Well, I don’t experience this type of dysphoria that other people talk about, so I guess I’m not a trans man

again, I promise you Just Existing is a lot less stressful than trying to encompass your essence with a series of labels

#don-t-reblog

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brownhillsbob · 5 years ago

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#365daysofbiking Omnidiretional signals:

January 19th - Some things are just nice.

I’m a big fan of Back the Track - the group of, it has to be said, mostly pensioners and older folk who have been determinedly converting the old South Staffordshire Railway trackbed through Brownhills into a cycling and walking route for all to enjoy.

This week they installed the new bench at the base of the signalpost by Clayhanger Marsh. The bench was always a personal dream of Brian Stringer, the group’s instigator and leader. Barry Roberts built the bench in his garage from materials he had, begged and were donated, and now it’s in place for all the trail users to ponder the great views on.

The McLean Way (MW) logo is made cleverly from track clips found discarded in the ballast of the old line.

What’s really neat is the backrest flips over, so you can comfortably sit facing the direction you choose.

It’s a lovely, creative and novel thing and I thank Barry and of course, all of Back the Track for their efforts.

It’s worth noting that there’s no road access to where the bench is sited, so those old guys must have manhandled the bench to it’s position. No mean feat.

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#365daysofbiking #Brownhills #Pelsall #Ryders Hayes #Clayhanger Marsh #Back the Track #signal #post #restored #bench #flip #backrest #community

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support-center · 10 years ago

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Hey, could I please ask for some support for askwinterorianna/askarcticopsvarus? He's a really amazingly sweet dude who's had a tough week of it and maybe some reminders that people care about his existence would help. Thank you!

Thank you askdragonbladetalon for sending in this ask!!

Hello fellow followers It seems we have another friend in the community who needs a little uplifting support: askwinterorianna/askarcticopsvarus!! Let’s get over there and give them some love!! I’ll be over into their inbox in no time!

- Mod Fairydust

#Signalpost #askdragonbladetalon #askwinteroriannia/askarcticopsvarus

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luciferschoice · 11 years ago

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Hallo everyone, because of a serious situation right now, I need any help I can find. At the moment everything is going down at my training company. The whole explanation can be found under that link. http://www.gofundme.com/fs0prw Edit: I made a project over at fundme.com now, because "go fund me" only allows credit card payment it seems. But till this is reviewed it may take up to 72 hours... OTL" I need to raise around 500€ (around 627$) to get my cat and myself food and pay my rent... I wouldn't try this when I wasn't desperate. Dunno anymore what to do. I ran off now to see if I can find help otherwise *sigh* Thank you i