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Mori: we have no dog in the social media wars so have mostly just watched Reddit and Twitter burn down with a detached, "watch that hurricane spin on the horizon, man am I glad we ain't closer," but we do appreciate the people who have moved to cohost.org because that's the only damn one of them that doesn't require an account to view AND allows RSS. (Meaning we can follow along with your sweet hamster pics.)

Bsky and tumblr both require accounts to view (though tumblr's real unpredictable on that count, sometimes it cuts you off after a few posts, sometimes it doesn't) and Threads... look, Instagram is the worst, I dread people linking me their stuff on Instagram because it's a coin flip whether I can see it or not, I would rather eat lard straight than go to Threads.

Some handy articles by Kiriska:

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lb_lee

Sneak: we can RSS some tumblrs but not others! There seems to be some weird major difference between username.tumblr.com and tumblr.com/username, and all username.tumblr's also have tumblr.com/usernames but not the reverse? We are perplexed by it. Regardless, only username.tumblrs seem to allow RSSing or viewing for more than a hot second without an account.

All we can say is, thank goodness we developed the habit of downloading everything we like years back. -_- we learned from tumblr in 2018!

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acorn_squash

I looked into this a while back for the sake of the Tumblr account that I refuse to use! tumblr.com/username is the version of the blog that doesn't have a theme. (This is convenient primarily because a bunch of themes are unreadable.) If the blog hasn't enabled a theme, it won't have a username.tumblr.com url.