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You Win or You Learn
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#12Anyone knows when will Threads be available in the EU? :(
When Meta figures out a way to screw users without running afoul of Digital Markets Act.
See what this act is about: https://ia.net/topics/unraveling-the-digital-markets-act
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#13Remember when people talked about Tumblr replacing Twitter as Elon Musk took over? Remember their pathetic bluecheck stunt? What's wrong with this organization? How did they fail to capitalize on such a massive opportunity?
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#14Damn it. I love Tumblr, but it is really hard to sell advertising against the content on there, I'm guessing. I wonder if it will get sold again? I wish it hadn't been cleansed. Reddit just ploughed through all the objections to their adult content and came out the other side unharmed. Tumblr could have done the same.
That's not quite accurate about Reddit. It only made it through by purging dozens to hundreds of the more controversial NSFW subreddits. Most were justified, but they definitely bent to advertisers and PR like anyone else.
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#15Damn it. I love Tumblr, but it is really hard to sell advertising against the content on there, I'm guessing. I wonder if it will get sold again? I wish it hadn't been cleansed. Reddit just ploughed through all the objections to their adult content and came out the other side unharmed. Tumblr could have done the same.
That's not quite accurate about Reddit. It only made it through by purging dozens to hundreds of the more controversial NSFW subreddits. Most were justified, but they definitely bent to advertisers and PR like anyone else.
They also stopped allowing NSFW content to appear on the front page of r/all.
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#16It’s not clear to me what this means. Freezing feature development? Rolling the backend into the rest of Automattic? Or the end of Tumblr?
Sounds like they are moving it from an actively developed project to one where they just babysit the existing users knowing they aren't making infinite money off them like they hoped.
No new features, new features are for closers.
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#17Remember when people talked about Tumblr replacing Twitter as Elon Musk took over? Remember their pathetic bluecheck stunt? What's wrong with this organization? How did they fail to capitalize on such a massive opportunity?
twitter still allows porn accounts
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#18Damn it. I love Tumblr, but it is really hard to sell advertising against the content on there, I'm guessing. I wonder if it will get sold again? I wish it hadn't been cleansed. Reddit just ploughed through all the objections to their adult content and came out the other side unharmed. Tumblr could have done the same.
> Tumblr could have done the same.
Not without being removed from the iOS app store. Apple played their hand.
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#19Also mentioned in this thread: Tumblr's ActivityPub integration (discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33716429 ) was apparently announced without any plan and then immediately cancelled once they started thinking about how to implement it. - https://mastodon.social/@_jv_/110692236418053393
Though with the new context that a few months after that tweet, the whole of Tumblr has been put on life support, it seems there may have been business considerations he wasn't privy too.
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#20Or you lose, as Tumblr is figuring out.