Tumblr to join fediverse

[emilyistrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Verizon sold to WordPress in 2019

[not_rick@lemmy.world]

That would be when they banned porn in 2018.

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

I don't understand the logic. Verizon buys tumblr, knowing it has porn, knowing porn is what makes it popular.

Kills porn.

Kills the valuation of the brand

Sells for far less than they bought it for.

Explain please.

[gradually_adjusting@lemmy.world]

Skill issue

[flamingos@feddit.uk]

Why did you link to a Mastodon post and not the actual article?

[laminateddenim@lemmy.world]

Wait wasn't it yahoo that initially killed the porn?

[grte@lemmy.ca]

They gambled that the additional ad revenue they'd be able to bring in with a sanitized web site would be greater than the revenue lost from some of their userbase leaving the site. It was a bad gamble.

[howabt2morrow@futurology.today]

This all sounds like the Tenacious D song about trying to kill Rock & Roll

[endymion_mallorn@kbin.melroy.org]

Oh. So it depends on your position on WPEngine instead.

[laminateddenim@lemmy.world]

The porn will strike you down with a vicious blow!

[maplebar@lemmy.world]

Instead of hoping your instance does something, just make your own instance. That's the whole idea.

[viri4thus@feddit.org]

Please no

[schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de]

probably, I remember something along those lines

[yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I'll believe it when I see it

[lime@feddit.nu]

depends on whether matt mullenweg knows you exist

also i've only just realized why he named the company auto-matt-ic oh my god

[gedaliyah@lemmy.world]

Can anyone eli5?

Will it federate with AP platforms?

[thefogan@programming.dev]

It's the porn paridox. Porn gets users. Advertisers pay per user... but won't pay anything if there's porn. Users without advertisers or subscription costs are worthless.

[tokeneffort@sh.itjust.works]

Neocities is Tumblr if it were worth anyone's time.

[sergio@slrpnk.net]

The article seems well-written, except that:

the fediverse — the open social web powered by the protocol ActivityPub also used by Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard, and others.

Seriously? Flipboard has like one thousand Monthly Active Users and we have like 50 times that, but we're like "and others" lel... I guess they didn't mention Pixelfed either tho and it's a lot "hotter"...

[flashmobofone@lemmy.world]

Is it still the same SJW hellhole it was a decade ago?