As someone who is active on tumblr and twitter but in wildly different ways, it is alarming that the collapse of twitter is also the collapse of a certain kind of public sphere (in the habermas-ian sense). Like 90% of environmental disasters, election news, etc. rely on Twitter for time-sensitive updates about world news. It should be considered a public utility. There isn’t a replacement, anymore, for the kind of crowdsourced news that Twitter made possible. This shitty apartheid bro basically tanked the public sphere because he couldn’t handle people being mean to him.
there is something so darkly comical about tumblr potentially outliving twitter
tumblr, which is held together with duct tape and madness, run by three raccoons in blood stained Yahoo! hats and a handful of crabs, its only discernible source of income the sale of shoelaces from an inside joke so inside no one knows the original source anymore and fake blue checkmarks… that website still lives on
truly the cockroach of social media and I love it for that
