General pieces of advice for 2024:
Switch to Firefox
Reblog stuff you enjoy for others to enjoy. Likes don’t do much on this platform (I tend to think of them as tumblr bookmarks), but a reblog may make an artist’s day
Cite your sources on images. The breadcrumbs you drop may lead to someone else’s inspiration
Take pictures of the mundane, like your house – never know when you will need to look back on that again for posterity or utility
Wear your face mask (KN95 or better, make sure it’s a good seal) and keep up to date with you covid boosters. Not only do you not want to get sick, you don’t want to be the reason someone else gets sick. It sucks, but getting long covid sucks more
Try to tag things accurately where you can
Install an adblocker
Ask questions (in general, not just on tumblr). Worst case scenario the answer is “I don’t know”
Engage in good-faith discussions with your fellow user, you might find a new friend
Go to a Vintage Computer Festival if you can help it, there’s cool stuff to see and things to do
Turn off “best stuff first” on your dashboard controls. It’s your dashboard, you get to curate it, so might as well take full control
Take a moment to enjoy silence in your space
Take the old, original batteries out of your vintage computers so they don’t burst and corrode the circuit boards within when you forget about them for a few years. You’ll thank me later, mitigating a Varta meltdown is incredibly time consuming
Be good to each other