i don’t really buy into the circlejerking about tumblr users broadly being that much smarter or well behaved by their own merit than twitter or tiktok users. it’s just largely a side effect of mass shock reactions not being incentivized in the numbers game as strongly. i think the people reluctant to leave post 2018 generally are more inclined to prefer to look at things more carefully, and it’s more difficult to shove things you hate into lots of people’s faces here, but when i look at people’s ideas and how they treat each other between tumblr and twitter at least, accounting for like age, i see more similarities than differences. people are kind of the same