elfwreck:

destinationtoast:

destinationtoast:

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So, Tumblr is doing another new thing, and you may want to make your Likes private.

On my dash, I’ve started seeing posts with a header that says “Liked by [username of someone I follow].”

So far via this new feature, I have learned that various people I follow are fans of spicy queer photography, rpf, and some controversial opinions. Which is hardly surprising on tumblr dot com, but I haven’t seen some of those people reblog such content in the past, so I didn’t know that about them previously. (All these folks have their Likes publicly available, so I could in theory have browsed the posts they liked before. But to me, there’s a difference between having Likes visible when people go looking for them vs. having them publicized on followers’ dashes.)

If you don’t like the idea of your liked posts showing up on followers’ dashboards with your name at the top, you can change your settings so your Likes are private.

On mobile, open up your settings and click “Pages:”

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Then make sure that sharing is turned off for Likes:

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You can also send feedback to Tumblr.

I got a response from Support:

Hello,

Thank you for your feedback regarding the “Include posts liked by the blogs you follow” option in the dashboard preferences. We genuinely acknowledge and empathize with your concerns.

We regularly collect suggestions and feedback like this one, and pass them along to our development teams. And while we may not implement all suggestions, the discussion around them is what drives us to make great things.

So if you want to give feedback and have it quickly routed to the right people, that is how they refer to the feature.

Well dammit.

On a browser, it’s at https://www.tumblr.com/settings/blog/[url]

I can’t remember which of the #$*(@!#! sidebar navigation mess it’s under.

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Turn on custom theme, because that’s the only way to get [URL].tumblr.com to work and let your blog be visible to people who aren’t logged in.

(Some people have this off for privacy reasons. TERFs generally have it turned off so that you can’t publicly link to their posts. …And then there’s the bots, who leave it off by default. This is one more way you can indicate “I am a real person with a blog here.”)

Turn OFF “Likes” and “Following” so that (1) your likes and blogs you follow aren’t used for trollbait and (2) Tumblr’s next wave of data-harvesting-manipulations won’t be using them against you and your fellow users.

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cea-tide:

ladyshinga:

I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.

Time to drop some links again.

– https://searchmysite.net/
Search engine for the indie web, personal websites, digital gardens. You can also find them in websites like Neocities, Indieweb, Blogarama, and write.as. There is also a big list of personal websites.

– https://search.marginalia.nu/
Search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and promotes websites that aren’t usually at the top of the list.

– https://www.worldcat.org/
Search engine for items in libraries (books, but also maps, articles, sound recordings, theses, etc.)

– https://scholar.google.com/
Search engine for scientific papers, reviews, etc. It’s still google, but a lot better than the normal search engine counterpart.

– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines
A list of search engines sorted by subject, area, and more. If you’re searching on a specific area, it might be worth checking if there is one focused on that area.

– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines
A list of academic databases and search engines.

– https://tineye.com/
Reverse image search alternative to Google’s.

Also, P.S.: Please stop using Google, and start using more privacy focused search engines, like DuckDuckGo or SearchX (opensource; personally haven’t used it yet, but it looks promising for privacy-focused users)

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Wrigley sleeps

kply-industries:

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crimsonkismet:

Puts a salt circle around my Tumblr to protect it from being followed by porn blogs and bots.   

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dominant-dominion:

Reblog if you’re a safe person to talk to.

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smute:

catchymemes:

“you are a lawyer and he is a hamster” is one of the funniest statements ive ever had the pleasure of reading

This is beyond wholesome

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