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Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by datenwolf »

51lver wrote: post #30
bvinc wrote: post #21

My daughter at 12 got sucked into Tumblr and developed an eating disorder. She was in this gigantic web of pro-ana tumblrs with crazy diet plans that tell you to eat like 100 calories a day. Then the app would just keep suggesting more, "skin and bones", "thinspo", "meanspo". Holy crap there are some scary corners of Tumblr. I of course am more mindful of what she looks at, but she was hiding it and I can't monitor e…

Giving people suggestions based on their profiled interests was a nice toy idea, but it's very dangerous in the real world. I worry about that often with my kid online now.

Outside of purposeful oscillators, positive feedback loops rarely are a desireable thing.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by matte_black »

LinuxBender wrote: post #55
ravenstine wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone make a Github repo so we can design this new protocol!

It does exist. It's not a new protocol, you can use (just about) anything that supports tcp. The domain names all end in ".onion"

it must be called xxx

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by ourcat »

buboard wrote: post #49
vortico wrote: post #12

Isn't that the point of Tumblr these days? I honestly don't know of any non-adult Tumlbr pages. It seems to consist entirely of premium camgirl pages, NSFW LGBT discussion, furry and hentai art, and artistic nude photography.

"It's like pinterest for porn."

Lets build "sinterest" ;)

update: Looks like someone already started...

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by michaelchisari »

x0x0 wrote: post #71
b1r6 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exactly correct. Sure there are "clean" portions of Tumblr, but from what I can tell the real purpose is to host adult content. And there's nothing wrong with that! It's a fantastic magnet for eyes, with which to show ads. They're basically killing themselves with this.

The vast vast majority of advertisers do not want to be displayed next to porn. Think of tumblr as nothing but a way to get pageviews for Cheerios and Volvo ads. It explains their decisions perfectly.

Every day results in another example of why free platforms supported by advertising might not be viable a long term solution.

I've always said that cheap is better than free. If all services like Tumblr had debuted at a nominal $0.25 or $0.50 a month and that had become normalized as a way to support the platform without mining data or being at the whims of advertisers, the internet might be in a better place.

Instead we have clickbait, engagement addiction and users as products and not customers.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by sargun »

datenwolf wrote: post #81
51lver wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Giving people suggestions based on their profiled interests was a nice toy idea, but it's very dangerous in the real world. I worry about that often with my kid online now.

Outside of purposeful oscillators, positive feedback loops rarely are a desireable thing.

I mean, maybe this is where neural networks that forget are valuable? They allow for exploration, and don't create local maximas in the same way?

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by tazjin »

jrs95 wrote: post #10
pdimitar wrote: post #9

If Verizon bought Tumblr with the sole purpose of having one more service to serve ads to, and if banning the adult content move aims to please the advertisers then oh boy, are they in for a nasty surprise. Tumblr will become a ghost town in days.

Well, the "otherkin" will probably still be there, so I guess if anyone wants to market to them..

By the time they're old enough to purchase things online they probably won't be using Tumblr anymore ...

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by LinuxBender »

matte_black wrote: post #82
LinuxBender wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does exist. It's not a new protocol, you can use (just about) anything that supports tcp. The domain names all end in ".onion"

it must be called xxx

You could cycle through names until you get one with xxx in it. :-)
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