It has its flaws, which I complain about regularly (mostly because it's the only social media site where I have enough of a following to be regularly annoyed). But the succession of the CEO's transphobia, stalkery defense of said transphobia, and now Automattic selling out massive amounts of Tumblr and Wordpress user data (which wrt Tumblr allegedly includes things like unpublished asks, locked stuff, etc, much of which has already been transmitted) is incredibly fucked-up.

I know fandom at large is never going to return to journal-based platforms like Dreamwidth, especially with image hosting being necessarily limited and also fairly unwieldy and the lack of low-effort engagement stuff like likes/kudos/reblogs/etc (I think not having those functions is important to Dreamwidth culture and principles, for what it's worth—but people are used to having them). But at this point, I don't even slightly trust any other platform to do remotely right by its users and I am more disappointed than usual wrt Tumblr and Wordpress.

Backing up Tumblr posts to Wordpress now feels vaguely incestuous.

(Tumblr is a graveyard of usernames! I don't want my stuff lost forever—especially stuff at the writing sideblog, even if practically no one else cares about that. Dreamwidth and Wordpress are my platforms of choice, but it is a little ... um.)