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I would too tumblr's day has passed. Marissa made a huge mistake betting on tumblr. The pornography and toxic community killed what could have been a strong twitter microblog service.
I would too tumblr's day has passed. Marissa made a huge mistake betting on tumblr. The pornography and toxic community killed what could have been a strong twitter microblog service.
I would too tumblr's day has passed. Marissa made a huge mistake betting on tumblr. The pornography and toxic community killed what could have been a strong twitter microblog service.
I get the pornography part, whenever you are checking a simple site it can happen that there is NSFW stuff visible without a warning. However, toxic community? I never had that impression. That said I never used Tumblr for longer periods and I don't get how to comment on stuff or really interact there.
WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. are the popular networks now. Tumblr naturally declined regardless of Yahoo (which definitely failed at integrating its adtech and never made any money). That's how it goes with social networks, it's a cycle of latest and greatest, and the whims of the public can change in a few short years.
I would too tumblr's day has passed. Marissa made a huge mistake betting on tumblr. The pornography and toxic community killed what could have been a strong twitter microblog service.
I love how Kyle Kingsbury is bold enough to link out to his own S&M tumblr on his professional website[0]. If only more people were that bold... [0] https://aphyr.com/about
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I get the pornography part, whenever you are checking a simple site it can happen that there is NSFW stuff visible without a warning. However, toxic community? I never had that impression. That said I never used Tumblr for longer periods and I don't get how to comment on stuff or really interact there.
Can't speak for OP but Tumblr has a pretty big SJW subculture; screenshots from more esoteric or radical discussions get some ridicule on reddit and elsewhere. Check (the equally toxic) subreddit tumblrinaction for a sample of this type of content. I can't tell you how representative that is of the whole site though as I am also not a tumblr user.
https://medium.com/@somospostpc/tumblr-is-tumbling-d6deb3bb8... Seems like this might have something to do with it.
Although 5 years old, /r/tumblrinaction didn't really start being used until 4 years ago.
For non-reddit users, it is a reactionary subreddit for crazy Tumblr nonsense that floats around the echo chambers of the site.
I think the decline in use was caused in part by the polarization of extreme feminism (think: all men are rapists) and red pill (think: feminism is cancer) nonsense. It became hard to have any reasonable conversation without posts being shared and brigaded by extremists.
Other platforms became better, IMHO.
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I love how Kyle Kingsbury is bold enough to link out to his own S&M tumblr on his professional website[0]. If only more people were that bold... [0] https://aphyr.com/about
I'm personally very glad more people aren't that bold. Not at all interested in seeing people I interact with professionally naked or engaged in sex games. Just not the place for it from my perspective.
I wish more people were as free as Kyle.
My blog went through many stages: I went from having a quality blog to having an astronomy/science blog to having a surf/beach blog to having a film/tv-show blog to having a design/architecture/animation blog to having a literature/poetry/quotes blog to having a spirituality/art blog. The community on Tumblr was particularly wonderful since it always aligned with what your blog interests where. I had many friends over the years, i.e. a woman from New York who I met when she was in high school and I was in high school (we video chatted and talked for almost four years), a woman from Paris studying for a masters in translation in Scotland when I had my literature/poetry/quotes blog (I remember her recommending I read Pride and Prejudice and I saying I would only read Pride and Prejudice if she watched The Godfather), a man from London who was a father when I had a spirituality blog (we would philosophize about things).
Above all, while these days I try to use the internet less and I am not a part of many social media platforms, I remember those days fondly and some lates nights, I think I wish I still had my blog and my followers and the people who I was following. I do not think there is/or will ever be a better place for an internet community than Tumblr was for me.