Tumblr is losing $30M each year, CEO says
Tumblr is losing $30M each year, CEO says
Tumblr head Matt Mullenweg also assuaged users fears by confirming that the platform will not remove its chronological feed.
I miss Tumblr. Yes, Tumblr still exists, but the Tumblr I miss does not. This stuff makes me wonder if we'll see an ActivityPub Tumblr-clone at some point, like Lemmy/Kbin to Reddit, Mastodon to Twitter and PeerTube to YouTube.
25Tumblr is adding activitypub support, hopefully this year.
8Be the change you want to see
6I was wondering the exact same thing a few days ago and spent some amount of time googling it.
There's already such a project actually, called Swanye. There seems to be a single person working on it, so if anyone has time to help I'm sure it will be appreciated
6I feel like an open source, federated substack would be more useful. You could use it like tumblr if you wanted to, but people could also use it to do real stuff.
4There is WriteFreely, though it's light on features.
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I believe Misskey/Calckey are meant to be exactly this, but I haven't tried them yet.
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Bring back the porn
20They quietly have. Most of the restrictions have been rolled back
7Porn is back yes but they are still pretty strict. If they catch you posting porn, you're banned. If your post has a nipple poking up on a shirt, that post gets banned. If the clothes are too tight, that post gets banned. If you post too many posts that are banned per above criteria, your account is banned.
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They quietly have. Most of the restrictions have been rolled back
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I wonder who could have foreseen the porn ban leading to this... Oh, wait.
20It would be so great if all these big "social media" companies just went out of business.
20"Tumblr CEO announces he's really, really bad at his job."
15Tumblr's administration is hot garbage. I don't feel bad for them, and neither should you.
8Tumblr is great but the the last person who understood the user base was David Karp.
Also Tumblr without Xkit is just lunacy
8By the way, Matt Mullenweg has a poll going on if he should step down LUL! https://www.tumblr.com/mattmullenwegceo/722564072820883456/should-i-step-down-as-head-of-tumblr-i-will-abide
7Check the bio -- that is a parody account.
5If it was his actual account, I'm pretty sure the engagement level will be about the same. Or even less LUL.
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I guess I forgot Tumblr was still a thing.
6I surprised tumblr still exists honestly
5unpopular opinion i kinda liked tumblr better after the cumbrains left
4The users are having a 'Crab day' where everyone gives each other crabs to try and help boost the finances. Will be interesting to see if it has an impact
3good. the only thing i'll miss is the blog customization options.
2A classic
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