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Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by Alex3917 »

citruscomputing wrote: post #41
swagempire wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't Tumblr do a whole "alienate your user base" thing like Reddit did recently? They got rid of all the racey hot content and basically made it super boring no? This always seems like a really bad idea.

They did, but that was a while ago. Things are still pretty bad -- if your blog gets flagged for racy content, you lose the ability to have a custom avatar, for example. (Even more, and you get banned.) They've also had quite transphobic moderation policies (really strange considering their userbase!) -- normal, non-sexual photos of trans people are "nsfw" now, which'll get your account flagged or banned. They've bee…

> normal, non-sexual photos of trans people are "nsfw" now

FWIW, the algorithms that big tech companies use are often trained to recognize women’s underwear. So non-sexual photos of trans men wearing women’s underwear are often flagged, even when similar photos of women wearing boxers are not.

I’m not saying it’s right, just giving the actual reason this happens. (Albeit I don’t have Tumblr-specific knowledge.)

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by resolutebat »

troupe wrote: post #56

Interesting to see this was posted on Threads instead of Tumblr which might kind of show the root of some of their problems. Does $30 Million a year spend rate seem typical for their size? I'm assuming a large part of that is the salaries for 139 people.

If you're leaking confidential corporate info, you probably don't want to post the leaks on the same company's platform.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by underwater »

citruscomputing wrote: post #41
swagempire wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't Tumblr do a whole "alienate your user base" thing like Reddit did recently? They got rid of all the racey hot content and basically made it super boring no? This always seems like a really bad idea.

They did, but that was a while ago. Things are still pretty bad -- if your blog gets flagged for racy content, you lose the ability to have a custom avatar, for example. (Even more, and you get banned.) They've also had quite transphobic moderation policies (really strange considering their userbase!) -- normal, non-sexual photos of trans people are "nsfw" now, which'll get your account flagged or banned. They've bee…

How is it an own goal? They were bleeding money, so tried to find a way to succeed through growth of users or revenue.

The path where they just left everything untouched is a path to certain failure.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by notaustinpowers »

I_Am_Nous wrote: post #48
thejohnconway wrote: post #27

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The only new feature I wanted for Tumblr was ActivityPub, that was nixed a while ago. Bad show.

Their entire argument appears to be "We aren't making more money than all-time peak revenue and usage stats are lower than peak too so we aren't wasting money on it any longer." Maybe if they had realistic goals that weren't just "try to make more money than ever before" they could have kept going at least somewhat...

Sadly any capitalistic company fails for the same exact reasons. They can't continue making more and more money every quarter, so they call it a failure and give up. To these company's, having a stable business is worse than having a failed business. Because a least a failed business can be sold off for parts.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by Eumenes »

dragonwriter wrote: post #80
eastbound wrote: post #70

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> Tumblr literally made people addict to porn. “Porn addiction” seems largely to be an evangelical Christian shame mechanism more than (and possibly instead of) an actual phenomenon.

You don't think the millions of hours of widely available online porno has any impact on our culture or how people view sex? It's incredibly ignorant to think that "evangelical Christians" are the only ones opposed to porn

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by abdullahkhalids »

DanielleMolloy wrote: post #69

Is there any alternative for having a gallery of text&photo posts without forced login and exploitative social media distractions? (except for self-hosting) When I looked for this 11 years ago, tumblr was the only platform ticking these boxes. I just wanted to share a link to photos of what we are up to with family and friends without asking them to register at another platform, and only tumblr allowed that and did n…

Wordpress can be quite close to the aesthetic of tumblr. One blog post per event, with pictures and text in whatever form you want.

You will have to pay for it though.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by treyd »

DanielleMolloy wrote: post #69

Is there any alternative for having a gallery of text&photo posts without forced login and exploitative social media distractions? (except for self-hosting) When I looked for this 11 years ago, tumblr was the only platform ticking these boxes. I just wanted to share a link to photos of what we are up to with family and friends without asking them to register at another platform, and only tumblr allowed that and did n…

Pixelfed is trying to be a federated version of Instagram, with the generally pro-user design that goes along with it that goes along with that.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by dragonwriter »

Eumenes wrote: post #86
dragonwriter wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Tumblr literally made people addict to porn. “Porn addiction” seems largely to be an evangelical Christian shame mechanism more than (and possibly instead of) an actual phenomenon.

You don't think the millions of hours of widely available online porno has any impact on our culture or how people view sex? It's incredibly ignorant to think that "evangelical Christians" are the only ones opposed to porn

> You don't think the millions of hours of widely available online porno has any impact on our culture or how people view sex?

No, hence why I didn't say that.

> It's incredibly ignorant to think that "evangelical Christians" are the only ones opposed to porn

Lots of people are opposed to porn. The idea of porn addiction, OTOH, is very strongly associated with religiosity in general, and certain socially consevative Christian subcultures in particular.

Being opposed to a thing and thinking that association with it fits in an addiction model aren't the same thing.

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