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Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by LinuxBender »

jstarfish wrote: post #222
ravenstine wrote: post #111

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For such purposes, Tor would be pretty inefficient. I suppose one could say that the inefficiency is a "feature" that makes the system self-limiting, curbing porn addiction. LOL

It'll be like 1996 all over again, only without the added titillation of listening to the screams and shrieks of a 28.8-baud modem in heat. Instead of watching hour-long videos in 1080p, you get to watch a single JPEG download and render line-by-line until the connection drops right at the exciting part.

Tor hidden servers can push around 40mb/s with a tiny bit of tweaking. They were working on support for the concept of sharding, but you could do that yourself by having multiple tor nodes. Actually, it's been a while since I toyed around with it. By now it's probably faster.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by zimpenfish »

x0x0 wrote: post #71
b1r6 wrote: post #62

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This is exactly correct. Sure there are "clean" portions of Tumblr, but from what I can tell the real purpose is to host adult content. And there's nothing wrong with that! It's a fantastic magnet for eyes, with which to show ads. They're basically killing themselves with this.

The vast vast majority of advertisers do not want to be displayed next to porn. Think of tumblr as nothing but a way to get pageviews for Cheerios and Volvo ads. It explains their decisions perfectly.

I follow only SFW blogs on Tumblr and the adverts I get are mostly way more sexualised (scantily clad ladies reclining to sell perfume, etc.) and full screen on the iOS app (revealed as you scroll the content). I'm surprised they'd have any problems with NSFW content.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by debt »

danaris wrote: post #173
debt wrote: post #50

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Too expensive to police. Losing users every month, downward trends, etc. Tumblr has become a money loser and won't ever be competitive with Facebook, TikTok, etc. Another botched acquisition.

> and won't ever be competitive with Facebook, TikTok, etc. Which is just another example of why the corporate culture today is absolutely insane. Why can there not be a site like Tumblr that is perfectly stable (leaving aside for the moment whether today's Tumblr is or could become that stable), but is not and could never be "the next Facebook" or "the next Twitter"?

Because Oath's board would rather pay it's useless execs fat salaries rather than competent engineers to maintain Tumblr.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by Apocryphon »

JBReefer wrote: post #220
Apocryphon wrote: post #170

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Yesterday's BitChute discussion [0] brought up the unfortunate fact that many ostensibly free-speech zone sites such as Voat and Gab just end up being havens for far right bigots and conspiracy theorists. Made me wonder if that toxic stew could be balanced if far left activists brigaded those platforms. With this story, it'd be even more amusing if amateur erotica creators and kink community people migrated from Tumb…

Far Right + Far Left !== somewhere good, you just get Reddit (or WW2). You need sane people to have sane conversations.

Oh, I hardly think it'd be much more than a toxic cesspool. But at least it'd be a multipolar, interesting cesspool.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by kinos »

iamdave wrote: post #205
kinos wrote: post #199

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Why did you word that as if the poster didn't create the content within the blog?

Tumblr as a platform exists on shared content, and actively measures, and provides to the user-measurements of "reblogs". In the context of this discussion, so many user account blogs that could be tagged as 'adult content' are full of reblogged sexual images that the account owner identifies with or wants to advertise as the type of sexual activity they are interested in. Many comments here are pointing out Fetlife…

Ah, that makes sense. I was seeing it from the point of view that reblogs are seen as just that. A method of sharing, not a method of laying claim. Its a way of saying "Look at this thing, and heres the source" thats pretty simple to do.

To me, "Content" implies stuff you uploaded directly, being the source yourself.

I can see the confusion now.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by zerealshadowban »

Interesting how the presentation of healthy sexuality and eroticism in US culture increasingly suffers under a joint assault by neo-puritans, radical feminists, middle-of-the-road advertisers, and gender-smashing warriors. By the gods, even at the gym the vast majority of Americans feel they must cover their body with towels when walking to/from the showers, and those who don't are eyed with suspicion. Similar trends are present in e.g. Sweden and France where the depiction of beautiful women in ads is now a socio-political problem.

I wish for our cultures to look for inspiration to the Ancient Greeks' fundamental love of the human body and soul; some of which we can observe in the sculptures that have survived (not the beefy Roman copies); and some of the perspectives one may gather from surviving poetry, tales of normal nudity in social activities, and benevolent jokes about sex.

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Post by tapland »

berberous wrote: post #95
bvinc wrote: post #21

My daughter at 12 got sucked into Tumblr and developed an eating disorder. She was in this gigantic web of pro-ana tumblrs with crazy diet plans that tell you to eat like 100 calories a day. Then the app would just keep suggesting more, "skin and bones", "thinspo", "meanspo". Holy crap there are some scary corners of Tumblr. I of course am more mindful of what she looks at, but she was hiding it and I can't monitor e…

Anorexia (and pro-ana websites with words like "thinspo") were around before Tumblr even existed, so it's nothing new. I suppose recommendation algorithms and the existence of this stuff on popular platforms like Tumblr and Instagram could make it more viral and spread more, but I wonder if that's true (e.g. if Anorexia has increased in the past 10 years).

Yes, it was around and was more focused upon when I was a kid without an internet connection.

But nowd you get that fed straight to you on sites/blog-platforms targeting children. All with huge real-time support groups that will help you not to eat. It's the $90/session personal trainers but available 24/7 and without any knowledge of side-effects and with a huge amount of denial.

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Post by wukerplank »

fabricexpert wrote: post #108

If you think you can code a tumblr clone in a weekend, this is your opportunity. You have 2 weeks, go!

I wonder how many people will rush for this. Even if they get it to scale, what's the business model? Or just do it like Tumblr and run on VC money as long as possible.

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Post by village-idiot »

noobermin wrote: post #122
village-idiot wrote: post #115

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I think a lot of people over-estimate the resilience of the human emotional state, especially their own. Time and time again we see regular functioning adults get sucked into objectively insane or self-harmful communities, be it the above phenomenon or 4chan crap like QAnon.

How many people follow QAnon or 4chan nonsense? You're over weighting a sheer minority of people who probably have other issues in their lives as for why they chase down conspiracy rabbit holes.

It’s not like 4chan is the first cult to start up and rope in otherwise functioning adults.

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Post by behringer »

DanBC wrote: post #58
behringer wrote: post #45

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You need to teach critical thinking skills. Not promote censorship. There's a lot of stupid things in the world you can't censor.

That's not how mental illness works.

The lack of critical thinking skills is a mental illness.
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