chimney swifts are so weirddd theyre like if birds decided to be bats.
thats bats. those are bats. to me
just like what a strange little creature. theyre related to hummingbirds. they cant actually sit and perch like most birds, the best they can do is cling to vertical surfaces. almost everything they do is done in mid-air. they have to drink by swooping at the surface of water with their mouth open. they build nests out of twigs they break off of branches as they fly by. they eat 5000-6000 bugs a day. And theyre the next president, of the united states of america
'you could already ip ban or turn off anon' yes but you can only ip ban someone who sent you anon hate AFTER theyve sent you anon hate. you can turn off anons any time you want but ppl typically only do it after theyve been sent massive amounts of anon hate. making it so that users need to sign in to be able to send any type of ask is a preventative measure to avoid masses of off site ppl attacking a user. we live in the age of kiwifarms and twitter callouts, this is a good change and will protect vulnerable ppl
this is a fair point and although i understand where you’re coming from i disagree. it’s one of those classic freedom vs. safety situations, and in this situation specifically i personally would prefer freedom. especially in the stage of extremely censored “marketable” internet we’ve been moving into.
you only need one dickish ask to block that anon’s ip, and you only need someone to be a dick to you one time before you block their url too. it honestly feels like exactly the same amount of risk is involved.
i feel like tumblr could have just as easily implemented this ‘fear factor preventative measure’ by including a message warning while sending an anon that 'this blog can stop you from sending more asks should they want to/you’re mean’. that would have had the same emotional effect. i don’t think tumblr added this feature (only) for user safety– it’s just another way for them to force people to sign up before they can access content. (i don’t think it’s a coincidence they only rolled this feature out recently, at the same time as they added the popup that doesn’t let you look at posts unless you sign in. anon harassment has existed for years and years, if that was their motivation they could have added it forever ago.)
i still remember being a kid who wasn’t allowed to make any social media accounts, excitedly and nervously leaving anon asks for my favorite creators and artists to tell them how much i liked their stuff. anonymity and lurking on the internet – privacy in general, to be honest – is dissapearing because sites want more users, more subscribers, more money. i personally just can’t stand that. i want to go back to those days of old where you could get asks from a curious person checking out your blog from a link off another site. i liked that!
but: that’s just me! i understand and respect your opinion and that you would prefer the safety of a more controlled internet, that’s a completely fair opinion to have.
“oh they’re not taking away chronological dashboard, well everything’s okay then” they also said in the post they’re making reblogs collapsed (like comments on twitter) so you won’t see the full conversation in a post. they also won’t get rid of tumblr live despite it being an annoying and cancerous data-miner that isn’t legal in much of the world. they won’t even let you opt out of tumblr live for more than seven days. they implemented a terrible photo viewer that mimics tiktok and makes it so you can’t zoom in on images. they took away the ability to view prev tags. they’re making it so you have to sign in with your email to view almost any thing on tumblr. they’ve already made it so you have to sign in to send asks, even on anon. they’re slowly phasing out custom blog themes.
the things that make tumblr at all usable and favored by us– the older web blog features, the anonymity– that is still being taken away. it HAS been being taken away for some time now. i am urging you people to reveiwbomb the tumblr app. force them to acknowledge that users do not like these changes.
