Actual coherent ability to see comments & have conversations with those who replied without spamming followers with the entire increasingly unwieldy giant post each time?
...just, uh, speaking from my Tumblr experience. (The tumblr version of a thread is a /nightmare/ for anyone who actually follows the person making the repeatedly updated and reblogged-again-each-time post.)
It's honestly why 90% of my use of Tumblr is 'view things that come by' and 8% is 'reblog'; I seldom bother to respond, and almost never post something myself, because it's so damn hard to have a conversation over there. It's the main reason Twitter became my LJ replacement, not Tumblr.
@audreygwinter So, yes, that’s a factor, but if I think about it too much, I get paralyzed. Too many people went to too many different places, so there’s a good argument for everything in that regard. So, instead, I sort of have to make the decision selfishly, based on usability.
The big reason not to use Tumblr instead of Mastodon is that Tumblr doesn't support ActivityPub, which means you can't follow/be followed by people ouside the platform. But apparently that's about to change, which would make it a viable alternative.
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...just, uh, speaking from my Tumblr experience. (The tumblr version of a thread is a /nightmare/ for anyone who actually follows the person making the repeatedly updated and reblogged-again-each-time post.)
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