#they're just reviewing some of my code rn

[thrill-seeker-if]

guys i just submitted my super cool resume pls pray that they are blown away please pray that i get the internship yall

[cervidaedalus]

The community has collectively torn apart every single flaw (and there are MANY) with this Posts+ feature and at that point it goes to show how poorly Tumblr would even handle a thing such as this. Even if they said your payment info would be safe despite numerous hilariously broken code bugs, the company as a whole has shown it hardly puts any critical thought into these decisions. Like lets review: -Every person who wants to be financially supported for their posts or content is already using Ko-fi and Patreon. Making this a Google+ style mistake of repeating a niche that's already been filled by a well-established platform and expecting it to succeed because of the size of your userbase alone. It's a redundant idea with the only "benefit" being that it's through Tumblr itself. -The pay cut taken by post+ is larger than Ko-fi or Patreon, with that cut being a whopping 40% in some countries. If this was about supporting creators, a simple tip jar feature could be implemented without paywall'ed posts so people don't have to link their payment apps. This isn't about supporting creators, it's about supporting the site's operating costs, but considering the scale of the backlash-- even if that backlash was a "vocal minority" which I sincerely doubt-- I'd wager they're hardly going to get enough partaking in it to make it a viable option. -Every feature they've rolled out has been clunky as hell. It's entirely likely that with the hypothetical chance this will be equally messy, the high cut being taken compared to alternatives, and established alternatives already existing with larger businesses and artists already having an established platform on those, even if this does get attention, it won't last more than a month or two. -Its a legal nightmare for anyone who posts fandom content- which is most of Tumblr. Even if your fandom stuff is in free posts, with enough income it could be argued that the fandom content is what's drawing in business and thus being used as advertisement. -If a post is reblogged once, its there forever. Which means that if you copy the content from a paid post and put it in the comments, there's nothing the OP can do aside from file a report to have all of those reblogs removed. Look at how quick the community was to eat NFT artists alive, and consider this is the platform where you get death threats over the silliest things. You think they'd actually respect content creators who use Posts+? -You can't block a subscriber without contacting support directly, which means someone with the disposable income could use it as a harassment tool. I don't even get the logic behind this feature other than lazy coding, because if streaming and cam model sites have a block feature even if you have an active subscription, why can't Tumblr? -Consider both of the above. Now recall the early days of the "nipple ban" fiasco and how many SFW posts got flagged because their detection algorithm was so clunky. To this day I get bursts of p/rn bot followers whose blogs are full of actual p/rn reblogged from existing blogs. I've reported every one of these that follows me as both spam and sensitive content before blocking them, but checking my blocklist right now, not a *single* one of them has been deleted. @staff how do you expect to combat the above: people subscribing to blogs to avoid blocks and carry out harassment, and people pirating paid content via reblog if you can't even keep up with p/rn spam bots that were reported months ago? You're just adding more onto the plates of your already likely overworked moderation team. -Lets not forget that they tested this feature by rolling it out on a staff member's blog without so much as notifying them about it. I absolutely get the need to monetize this site in some way so it can cover operating costs as well as a bigger moderation team to smack down those pesky p/rn bots, but as someone else suggested: this can be done via Reddit's method of offering bonus paid features that don't create a detriment to free users' experience, rather than locking content behind

paywalls.

[princessnijireiki]

Like I'm really tangibly uncomfortable rn or I would've read that Haaretz review more thoroughly, bc like… I'm used to the dogwhistles and doublespeak of "legitimized" racism against my other bgs & in my adult life, especially once it's coded into academic jargon, that first wave of panic when you aren't braced for it wears off faster & turns into anger and actionable energy very quickly as like a matter of survival.

And it's not even that I don't recognize this when it comes to antisemitism, I'm from New England, and MA feels like the home state of pretentious double entendres for hate speech, and bc my life is weird as all hell I was raised my whole life with a deliberate awareness of and sensitivity to this specific kind of racism over two decades before finding out I was Ashkenazi. That's my weird-ass life story. And yk I had to suspect, obviously, or I never would have Googled this book & this author. It's not that it's completely new to me.

But that like… this was reblogged by someone I'm following, who reblogged it from someone I'm following, when it feels to me so obviously revisionist & hostile… everything on this author's Wiki made me uncomfortable, that like his early life section made no mention of this man as Jewish or not when he refers to Jews & Russians as separate peoples, that he has this position of scholarly prestige while theorizing that elitist, "effeminate," "Mercurian" Jews ran the whole goddamn century + "we are all Jewish"… all the reviews I saw for the book on Google before going out of my way to scroll until I saw the link to Haaretz calling it daring, fascinating, informative, etc., while not going into much detail besides to refer to "the Jews" like they're discussing a research study… that I was clearly supposed to think of all this shit as being, somehow, "good," this like ~Elders of Zion~ Illuminati implications bullshit as positive in some way, that Gentile Communist Fanboys were sharing this as a way to show how enlightened and NON-antisemitic they were (unlike the capitalist alt-right??) while jerking off to the political ideology that killed & oppressed the people they hung the credit for around the necks of…

The effect in combination… it's fucking disturbing. It's upsetting shit. It's scary. I'm not some fucking WASP to not know when people are discussing me like I'm an insect under glass to be dissected or some kind of fucking monster goblin demon to exterminate, even if this particular set of labels is new to me, either. I know when the fuck to be scared. I know what that shit feels like & it's ugly. It's horrible.

And maybe it's bc I'm new to this face of antisemitism, or maybe it's bc I'm new to having those alarm bells ring for me personally, maybe it's 2017 being a goddamn dumpster fire, or me picking the wrong people to have access to my digital space, or maybe the shit is increasing on me, or maybe I'm just sensitive and fucking naïve. Or all of that. Or none of it.

But I really don't… like that shit. I really cannot stand by that shit, I can't even fucking scroll past and ignore it, and I can't do any of that shit without feeling really goddamn shaken up.

And like this is just… a post for me to like vent and verbalize this feeling and get it off my chest and out of my gut where it's sitting like a rock bc I can handle having slurs thrown at me. I can handle bullshit threats of violence. I can handle in your face shit. But this kind of thing… being erased & silenced & rewritten and fucking categorized like an animal, that shit bothers me. Every fucking time it bothers me. And idk how not to be bothered.

…And ykw? I do feel a little better after writing this. Bc sometimes you feel some things that make you need to scream or explode if you can't find the righg words. But the main thing is, you shouldn't have to feel that way. People shouldn't make you feel that way. And even for the little bit better that I feel, it's not fucking enough. And it's fucked up that I have to try so hard for it to be in the first place.