OT: it seems as if Meta‘s play with Threads is working out?
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
It hardly matters that the cert is expired if you're not logging in. Contrary to popular belief, TLS is not beneficial for sites where you aren't sharing secret data.
> Contrary to popular belief, TLS is not beneficial for sites where you aren't sharing secret data. I wish this meme would die. Integrity is still important for non-secret data. Confidentiality is important for data which may be considered secret in some contexts but not others.
What are the negative effects of questionable integrity of Reddit textual content?
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#173MindGeek should buy Tumblr and allow adult content again. Tumblr's success was that it was an adult space that wasn't strictly pornography. It was a "cool sex" to PornHub's "hot sex".
Good and subtle distinction. Thanks.
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#174photomatt is like a benevolent DHH
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#175Usability-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…
I love custom domains, and subdomains, but with the way cookies and everything work now you really have to put everything in a sub-directory, so I'd recommend the first approach.
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#176From 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…
There is very simple monetization strategy: ads, cut bloat, move content moderation staff to India! Tumblr has an army of content creator that work for free. It is a site that host text and images. How they even spend 30 million per year? Maybe on organizing "stuff convention", SF real estate and so on... Cut the bloat!
They don't spend 30 million per year, they spend 30 million over what they generate.
I don't think they'd generate peanuts so as to not even cover hardware costs.
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#177Remember 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?
It's really hard to get people to switch one at a time, you have to bring over whole networks for it to work. It has to be a community switching together. Threads has been successful because they can promote it so much from Instagram.
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#178From 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…
They don't seem to have tried the one thing that might have worked for them, namely, embracing the fact that they're first and foremost a porn site. Instead, they decided to be actively hostile to this reality, with predictable results.
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#180From 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…
They don't seem to have tried the one thing that might have worked for them, namely, embracing the fact that they're first and foremost a porn site. Instead, they decided to be actively hostile to this reality, with predictable results.
Different owner