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Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by BobaFloutist »

p1necone wrote: post #140
MatthiasPortzel wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the CEO’s blog today: > You mention Blaze and Ad-free doing well, but their adoption is so small relative to the use of Tumblr their revenue couldn't support a fraction of the ~1,000 servers it takes to run Tumblr, much less any salaries.

(person who doesn't really know what they're talking about when it comes to services of this scale asking) Why does Tumblr need 1000 servers to run? You can serve a lot of text and relatively well compressed image files with not a lot of hardware.

A lot of people use it to promote their art or to share screencaps/gifs/clips of movies, so I think people would get pretty cranky if the image files were overly compressed (unless it's the magic kind of compression that doesn't cost any fidelity. I don't really understand how compression works).

That's without getting into video content.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by gspencley »

jimbob45 wrote: post #135
gspencley wrote: post #108

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While I don't disagree with the bulk of your comment, it's worth noting that PornHub / MindGeek didn't just shoot themselves in the foot but hurt the entire industry when there were numerous videos of missing teens and underage content found on their site. I say this as someone who ran an adult website for 18 years, in Canada, until suddenly our bank informed us that they were closing our commercial accounts and we c…

I say this as someone who ran an adult website for 18 years, in Canada, until suddenly our bank informed us that they were closing our commercial accounts and we couldn't find a single other bank or credit union in this country that would take our business despite a pristine 18 year track record. Was there no way around it? Maybe with a shell company to hide your real business? I know it didn’t end up working out, I’…

Full story here: https://coedcherry.com/fuck-banks.html (NSFW domain, but no adult content on that particular page).

TL;DR to answer your question: shell company would have been our best bet, but not something we could do logistically or ethically. It would have worked but we'd live every single day knowing that at any moment we could get flagged and go through it all over again. And with a full time job outside outside of running the company part-time there was no time, money, energy or will to set up such a front and figure out legitimate business activities to cover the revenue that was coming in from adult entertainment.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by [deleted] »

MatthiasPortzel wrote: post #29

From a live-stream from the Tumblr staff convention this year, their CEO: > Yeah, so right now, we're burning. Which means spending more than we make. About 30 million per year more than we make. > So, that's a lot. We can't do that forever and so that's why we're really trying to figure out things that y'all would value. Whether that's merch or upgrades or badges or gifts or Blaze or other things. Every little bit h…

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Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by evanelias »

p1necone wrote: post #140
MatthiasPortzel wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the CEO’s blog today: > You mention Blaze and Ad-free doing well, but their adoption is so small relative to the use of Tumblr their revenue couldn't support a fraction of the ~1,000 servers it takes to run Tumblr, much less any salaries.

(person who doesn't really know what they're talking about when it comes to services of this scale asking) Why does Tumblr need 1000 servers to run? You can serve a lot of text and relatively well compressed image files with not a lot of hardware.

It's a social network. Tumblr serves a lot of traffic, and has a lot of data. The product data alone is over 1 trillion rows in relational databases by my estimation (former early eng there), and that's not accounting for replication / high availability.

1000 servers actually sounds surprisingly small. It was a fair bit higher than that a decade ago, and that was on bare metal then, vs (afaik) cloud VMs now. Then again, their traffic is a lot lower now, but still nothing to sneeze at.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by sneak »

n8cpdx wrote: post #52
sneak wrote: post #51

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No it wasn’t. Instead of deleting the porn they could have just hid it from iOS users. Twitter, Threads, Instagram, Chrome, and countless other App Store apps are perfectly comfortable serving up racey content.

Those are too big to fail. Nobody would buy an iPhone that doesn’t have Instagram.

500px is another example of a site full of nudity that has to arbitrarily censor for iOS, all because Apple is protecting their 10x-market-rate credit card processing business (30% instead of 3%) by preventing sideloading. It’s bullshit that Apple decides for me what I am allowed to view. How convenient that it also protects their revenue stream.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by sn41 »

Alex3917 wrote: post #138
citruscomputing wrote: post #107

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Cool. Now why does it consistently happen for images where no underwear is visible, and why doesn't it happen for cis women? Why are appeals not granted? And why didn't staff even acknowledge there's a problem?

No idea. I’ve never worked at any of these companies, I just learned this in an academic conference presentation on ethnographic research into OnlyFans users. OnlyFans doesn’t have its on recommendation system, so users need to find their customers on instagram, Twitter, tumblr, etc.

Hi, just to sate my own curiosity: can you please provide me a link to this presentation, if it's available online? Thanks...

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by lazycouchpotato »

mksybr wrote: post #43
mvdtnz wrote: post #35

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You also can't view NSFW content without being logged in any longer.

You can with old.reddit.com

For now.

Reddit's currently working on a UI/UX update for moderators on new.reddit (or newnew reddit as I like to call it since it's technically a second redesign) with an ETA of early 2024 [1]. According to them last year, 4% of users use old.reddit but carry out 60% of all moderating actions [2].

My guess is once that rolls out, they'll be ready to retire old.reddit.

The UI will live on though. There's mlmym [3] that allows you to use the interface on Lemmy. The instance of Lemmy I use has it on https://old.lemmy.world

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/15rxkbn/announcing...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/v3frc1/what_were_wo...

[3] https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by echelon »

echelon wrote: post #46
hypertexthero wrote: post #25

Usability-wise, the thing that keeps me from using any Fb things, Threads.net included, is they break the bloody Back button!

Change of subject - any thoughts on the difference between user-friendly URLs? Root paths route to usernames: - https://twitter.com/username - https://github.com/username - https://www.instagram.com/username Sigil-scoped paths for usernames (these also use www-prefix): - https://www.threads.net/@username - https://www.youtube.com/@username Path-scoped usernames: - https://www.reddit.com/user/username - https://www.re…

Why the heck did this get downvoted to -4?

It was an earnest question. I'm trying to figure it out for my own startup.

Perhaps a tangent too far?

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by escapedmoose »

notaustinpowers wrote: post #67

As an early Tumblr user, godspeed. You were fun while you lasted.

Tumblr is the only social media site that truly hooks me for hours at a time anymore. So while I’d be sad to see it go and take all its lovely fan communities down… I would get a lot of my time back.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by n8cpdx »

sneak wrote: post #145
n8cpdx wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No it wasn’t. Instead of deleting the porn they could have just hid it from iOS users. Twitter, Threads, Instagram, Chrome, and countless other App Store apps are perfectly comfortable serving up racey content.

Those are too big to fail. Nobody would buy an iPhone that doesn’t have Instagram. 500px is another example of a site full of nudity that has to arbitrarily censor for iOS, all because Apple is protecting their 10x-market-rate credit card processing business (30% instead of 3%) by preventing sideloading. It’s bullshit that Apple decides for me what I am allowed to view. How convenient that it also protects their reve…

I think you might be forgetting that Tumblr had a completely fine status quo, including showing me very much adult content on my iPhone, until Verizon bought them.

Blaming the App Store was always an excuse.

Tumblr just didn’t want to put the effort in to keep CSAM off their site.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/tumblr-to-ban-pornography-startin...

Some would say it is disappointing that Apple draws the line at child sexual abuse, but I guess that is a matter of opinion.

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