I'm on a Tumblr.

[del_chan]

Does anyone else do Tumblr? I just signed up, and I'm not sure how frequently one posts on such things. Seems more promising that I'll keep up with a bloggy-style doodad than something like Twitter, though. (I'm on that too, BTWI'm kind of getting tired of "the next big communication method" changing so quickly, dispersing my content and

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Okay, so not to be a downer, but

[gamoid]

I loathe Tumblr. I consider it a personal victory if I can look at my dashboard for more than seventy-five seconds without rage-quitting.

Re: Okay, so not to be a downer, but

[gamoid]

(That said, ker-followed.)

Re: Okay, so not to be a downer, but

[del_chan]

Okay, so you hate it. This doesn't help! I need an explanation a soccer mom would understand. What makes it different than a blog or a Twitter or Flickr feed? And what can I do to make people not hate me as a responsible internet denizen?

[gamoid]

Okay, okay, point. The idea is that it's the best of Twitter and LJ combined. You can post text, music, photos, whatever, in such a way as to make it easier for readers to consume the content. You get your own URL to which you can apply whatever theme you like, again like LJ. But you accrue followers and - this is most important - you can syndicate other's content, like Twitter.

That's fine so far. Where it falls apart is that there's no real commenting system. If you want to add to a discussion, you post literally the whole discussion thus far and add your 2 cents at the end. In practice, this means the same Parks and Recreation .gif gets put in your feed eighteen times.

They've gotten a LITTLE better of late - you can add replies and answer questions and such. But for the most part, it's like LiveJournal with no LJ-Cut tag and a cancerous meme culture.

[del_chan]

But... there is a LJ-cut tag equivalent. I used it in my second post. It's called "read more".

The comment aspect is disappointing. I dig the syndication of others' content, but I'd really love one of these new-school online communication methods to allow for better commenting. If you look at my LiveJournal stats, I've got 826 journal entries and 6,502 comments posted since 2002, so you see where my balance lies. I enjoy being able to write substantial responses to people, and the Gravatar system helps where it's supported, but really, I don't want to have to navigate disparate logins or await moderation to respond to you.

So it sounds like Tumblr's sort of annoying for the one-liner sort of comments, marginally less so for substantial ones, and increasingly repetitive the more popular something is. Good to know.

[gamoid]

And there aren't really any etiquette rules beyond a generous interpretation of Wheaton's Law. At least, not that I've ever seen observed.