Tumblr to join fediverse
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Why? Tumblr is terrible, but in a good way.
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You could just block them yourself if you don't like leftist spaces that much
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Tumblr doesn't really strike me as leftist, so much as having a low signal:noise ratio
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All of you who were making a fuss over Threads had better act the same way about this - after all, it's Verizon.
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In the early-to-mid 2010s Tumblr was mainly associated with "social justice" types of people, it seems to have become a lot less relevant at some point in the late 2010s.
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No, Verizon does not own Tumblr. Verizon sold Tumblr to Automattic, the owner of WordPress.com, in August 2019
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It really would be so much easier to just boost Mastodon posts into a Lemmy community.
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I'm sure I've read this headline before and nothing came of it then.
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that's crazy talk, next you'll be telling us we should be able to actually block people from seeing and interacting with our posts
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Good ‘ol Cunnigham’s Law
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Tumblr is terrible
Stay terrible fam.
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Verizon sold to WordPress in 2019
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That would be when they banned porn in 2018.
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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.
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Skill issue
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Why did you link to a Mastodon post and not the actual article?
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Wait wasn't it yahoo that initially killed the porn?
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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.
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This all sounds like the Tenacious D song about trying to kill Rock & Roll
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Oh. So it depends on your position on WPEngine instead.
