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everyone has a unique style and cadence... i love reading reddit and pyi.fi just to learn about other random people's writing styles! i get so jazzed every time i come across a delicious sentence.
reading instagram does not give me this same joy and i wonder if it's because everyone's writing style is gradually shoehorned into the same mold so that their captions and story rants can better suit the algorithm.
reading instagram does not give me this same joy and i wonder if it's because everyone's writing style is gradually shoehorned into the same mold so that their captions and story rants can better suit the algorithm.
Jul 16, 2025
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💭What I'm seeing is layered social media cultures and extensive online experience. Learned informal grammar and punctuation cultivated by the likes of texting, twitter, tumblr, etc. combined with a knowledgeable user base that can also "write properly." These styles are intuitively used as needed depending on the intent of the post or element in the post (effective communication, evocative of an experience, humor, etc.) rather than trying to adhere a site-wide style.
I also speculate the style is influenced by the device used for composing posts: smartphone (more informal) vs. computer (more formal).
case in point, this was a computer post
I also speculate the style is influenced by the device used for composing posts: smartphone (more informal) vs. computer (more formal).
case in point, this was a computer post
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🔁i think that while it had it's own host of problems it was really the ideal social media.
multiple media formats were supported. it was easily searchable. the ui was perfect; minimalist, iconic, but also customizable. while there was some kind of recommendation algorithm it really was just largely user-sourced: you followed specific blogs, specific tags, and that ultimately led to a super rich online experience where for certain the stuff you wanted to see was on your timeline and if you saw something you didn't recognize but liked (or something you recognized but didn't like) you could actually change your feed to include (or exclude) that new content, which more often than not came from people / tags you were already following
subculture on tumblr flourished in a way that instagram and twitter have never replicated; the fact that you could follow a$ap yams, frank ocean, et al and be tapped into this new moment in art and media or be in the pits of fandom tumblr or just be somewhere in the middle and constantly see cool photos, essays, etc. (where again, all of this is indexed on specific tags so people can post common stuff on the same thread) is just so much what the ideal digital platform is (for me, at least) - and unlike ig and twitter, you could be multi-faceted on tumblr; the algorithm (or your followers) didn't punish you for liking and posting about multiple things
instagram has carved its niche out by asking users "how monetizable can you make yourself?" twitter has carved its niche out by asking users "how disaffected and aloof can you make yourself?" tumblr was the only place where you weren't actively punished just for being earnest. it's still around but it absolutely isn't the same and the second someone can make a website with the exact same feature set without getting sued i'm so fucking there. pi.fyi is the first site that feels "tumblr-esque" in a while (honorable mention to are.na which i just haven't had the patience to figure out yet)
multiple media formats were supported. it was easily searchable. the ui was perfect; minimalist, iconic, but also customizable. while there was some kind of recommendation algorithm it really was just largely user-sourced: you followed specific blogs, specific tags, and that ultimately led to a super rich online experience where for certain the stuff you wanted to see was on your timeline and if you saw something you didn't recognize but liked (or something you recognized but didn't like) you could actually change your feed to include (or exclude) that new content, which more often than not came from people / tags you were already following
subculture on tumblr flourished in a way that instagram and twitter have never replicated; the fact that you could follow a$ap yams, frank ocean, et al and be tapped into this new moment in art and media or be in the pits of fandom tumblr or just be somewhere in the middle and constantly see cool photos, essays, etc. (where again, all of this is indexed on specific tags so people can post common stuff on the same thread) is just so much what the ideal digital platform is (for me, at least) - and unlike ig and twitter, you could be multi-faceted on tumblr; the algorithm (or your followers) didn't punish you for liking and posting about multiple things
instagram has carved its niche out by asking users "how monetizable can you make yourself?" twitter has carved its niche out by asking users "how disaffected and aloof can you make yourself?" tumblr was the only place where you weren't actively punished just for being earnest. it's still around but it absolutely isn't the same and the second someone can make a website with the exact same feature set without getting sued i'm so fucking there. pi.fyi is the first site that feels "tumblr-esque" in a while (honorable mention to are.na which i just haven't had the patience to figure out yet)
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📖both of them are used for reading purposes
specifically I can post my book reviews and thoughts on tumblr and actually interact with others, which I feel is harder on other social media sites (in my experience anyway). as much as it's fun to post reviews into the void, I love talking about things I love with people who also love them !!
specifically I can post my book reviews and thoughts on tumblr and actually interact with others, which I feel is harder on other social media sites (in my experience anyway). as much as it's fun to post reviews into the void, I love talking about things I love with people who also love them !!
Mar 6, 2025
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they caught him and airlifted him back to his house
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👭boyfriend trouble? family blues? roommate drama? call up the ladies and go for an evening walk, spend a day at the lake, lay on each others beds and talk it out. always heals
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