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[–] 97 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Really, Matt? Nothing else, like how you went scorched-earth on WPEngine and caught a lot of people in the crossfire and destroyed a lot of goodwill in the process? Nothing comes to mind?

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  • [–] 115 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    yeah well when you buy tumblr and ignore the userbase to push dumb changes what do you think would happen

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  • [–] 82 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Well like most CEO's he gets paid no matter what so he doesn't have to think. That's the problem.

    Imagine getting millions of dollars to ruin a company. The concept is insane to me.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    i'd say give tumblr back to david karp but i'm literally afraid he's like into crypto now like wil wright (don't tell me cause i don't wanna find out because i dont wanna get sad 🙃)

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I checked for you and good news!

    Tap for spoilerHe isn't involved in much except investing in mobility aides and was apparently on the Planned Parenthood board for a while.

    Quick search showed his most recent activity was being the single largest donor to Mark Kelly's 2020 senate campaign.

    Completely normal progressive liberal stuff.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    the biggest failure was removal of porn from tumbler, they all fled to twitter, and pornhub.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Automattic bought Tumblr after the porn ban.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    The ban happened because Verizon was trying to sell it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    Also, there's still porn on Tumblr. They stopped trying to block it, now they just exclusicy ban trans women who post porn.

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    Oh yeah no I know there's porn on tumblr, I need a source about tumblr banning porn made by trans people

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    Thanks for the link!

    Are you expecting a news article or what?

    I mean, yeah, that's how providing a source works. You provide me with a news article that contains sources, or the source itself.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    I just didn't expect any site to write about the bigot Tumblr mods that dispropotionally targeted trans girls for sexual posts that didn't usualy show nudity or even much skin.

    Most of me learning about this has been from personal experience and other trans girls on Tumblr, a few of the trans girl blogs i follow have been nuked this year by Tumblr staff and only one of them posted nudes.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Since I am out of loop - my bias is still: why wouldn't (furry) porn be profitable? :D

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Tumblr Is fucken great, you just can't monetise it.

    Suck shit

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    I'm guessing he's stupid or greedy.

    Throw in an ad and the service pays for itself.

    That is, unless he's renting hardware like a dipshit.

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    A bunch of companies have been trying for years to monetize tumblr. They've all failed. Tumblr users are very proud of this.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They do call it a Hellsite for many reasons. Not being profitable is one of them.

    At the same time, it has calmed down a bit as the user base has aged up, and the more volatile elements have left for bluer skies.

    Oddly enough, other than the mess of the NSFW filter, it's been fairly controversy free. You can still use their API without paying globs of money, for example. Twitter and Facebook have all thrown that out, and Reddit has made other bad decisions, in addition to imploding their third party app ecosystem.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I thought Twitter was the hellsite. When did tumblr become it?

    I left when all my friends and follows stopped posting and my feed was all bullshit.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It's been that for a while. Tumblr's had it a while, between the earlier days of the user base, and the site not being the most well-coded thing compared to Twitter or Reddit.

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  • Hammer car explosion motherfucker

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  • as a tumblr user, lol.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Simplenote, DayOne, Pocket Casts are already ready to challenge this failure - maybe not in terms of money, Matt. So never say never.

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