#finally found a good posts plus take

elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:

frankly, the issue with tumblr+ isn’t all the dumbass crap people have been bringing up so far, it’s that tumblr has to recreate its creator culture and attract people back to the platform basically from scratch bc while many people never left, making it attractive for creators to actually invest their time in building a following and posting content here for people to subscribe to is gonna take some convincing. i mean, substack and all the newsletter platforms built their rise on writers/journalists/twitter people who had already built followings there, on platforms that people hadn’t mass migrated off of. patreon created a product where basically none existed before that was platform agnostic, and major podcasters, artists, and more that weren’t looking for crowdfunding didn’t have many options.

especially for people who used to have followings here or use it a lot but don’t anymore, they left because they either 1) weren’t just having fun using it for themselves anymore 2) couldn’t use it for anything else like other platforms. people have spent time and energy building platforms for themselves in other places. the real test will be to see if people will want to cultivate that here.

in all honesty, i hope they do. it’s nice having people make things for a platform because they care about their audience and the community on it, and not just trying to make as much as possible on every platform. the difference does show, and communities are richer for it. its nice when those people get paid for their work. it’s not nice when people feel they must feed an algorithm and cater to advertisers. i know thats why people have turned to these direct support models before.