Good idea from tumblr: make it that you can see other replies/comments on a post outside of your circle, making it more forum esque.
Bad idea from tumblr: making it that you’re incapable of opting out of seeing a post’s replies/reblogs even if you delete the post in question. Meaning that viral posts in particular you’ll grow to dislike/hate purely out of oversaturation on your activity feed. Leading you to also potentially avoid reblogging viral posts.
Idk how many of you have been experiencing it (I suspect those who have not felt it as bad don’t use xkit to unstack activity notes) but this is what it looks like for me for replies rn on the average singular day as of recent;
The replies highlighted green are the ones that are replies directly to me either in my own OPs and/or from mutuals replying through whatever post I may have reblogged. All the unhighlighted ones are from only two viral posts. All of this in one single day.
The oversaturation of replies not directed to me has lead to me tuning them out entirely from my activity feed, which isn’t good; I’ve already found that even when making this screenshot of replies that I missed a good third of the ones directed to me.
Tumblr learn from other sites; let people opt out of a conversation if they want to for the love of sanity.
I know when I reply to a post, there’s the little lightning bolt at the corner of the notes box that I can click to unfollow, but to unfollow a post entirely that I made… I don’t know! Do they have the same option?
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