Comment on Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far

Melobol@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Porn on tumblr was an early victim of credit card companies not wanting to be associated with that filthy filth, like what happened recently with videogames. Iirc, they pressured app stores to take the tumblr app down.

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  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I can’t verify the truth of it, but I heard that the catalyst to the porn ban was a meeting where they were pitching Tumblr advertisements to some company, and wanted to demonstrate how tags and engagement works, so they pulled up the #McDonalds tag live to demonstrate and they got a screen full of Ronald McDonald porn.

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    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Should have been filtering out nsfw in the board room

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    • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      ronald mcdonald definitely fucks

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    • limonfiesta@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I don’t care if this is debunked in the next millisecond, this is my head canon from now till the end of time.

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    • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That sounds absolutely plausible and is thus now incorporated as Truth into my memory of the goings-on.

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    • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m loving it

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  • drgeppo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    as a long time tumblr user it’s so very ironic to me that short after the 2018 porn ban you see the rise of fan sites, and still after that tumblr tried to monetise by adding tips, and various ways to pay your favourite bloggers and just… you already had users willing to post hot original porn, and later you had ways to monetise it, but no, they did it in the wrong order wtf

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    • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      tumblr devs adding all sorts of useless monetization vs 1 xkit developer

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    • nagaram@startrek.website ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      To be fair, IF tumblr had added the tipping feature while porn was huge on the site, it might have became Onlyfans.

      OF wasn’t always a porn site. It was trying to be a Patron that allowed adult content, but it became just a porn site.

      I argue something similar would have happened to tumblr

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  • Melobol@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ahh that makes kinda sense!
    Tho I’m not interested much in porn - I am very pissed about credit card companies deciding for the users of what they can purchase or not. I believe crypto will help a lot with these overreaches in the future.

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