It would solve so many problems over there, honestly.
Which ones?
Comment on Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff
jesseaccountname@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’d love to see a defederated version of Tumblr. It would solve so many problems over there, honestly.
Tvkan@feddit.de 7 months ago
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Needs more porn
Fal@yiffit.net 7 months ago
Emperor@feddit.uk 7 months ago
It’s rare that this is the solution to a problem not originating from my pants but…
jesseaccountname@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Alot, in my opinion. I think defederation and community management could address Tumblr’s unwanted censorship that seems to go after trans people aggressively but ignore literally dangerous porn bots. They could build it without the shitty tik-tok-esque service Tumblr staff are trying to integrate in to please investors who know nothing about the site. Folks wouldn’t have the constant fear that the site will shut down every year because trying to make money off of Tumblr is like throwing money into a woodchipper.
Most of Tumblr’s problems are self-inflicted by management, and people who are actually passionate about the site could make Tumblr amazing
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 7 months ago
How about
People just start hosting their own blogs again?
Schmeckinger@feddit.de 7 months ago
But doesn’t that make it harder to get discovered? Im not into blogs, so I know nothing about tumblr or self hosted blogs.
Soggy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Back in the Old Days of the internet we used stuff like message boards and “webrings” which was a bunch of sites linking to each other (if you like my stuff, check out my friends!), everything was word-of-mouth. It intersected pretty strongly with real world nerd shit, connecting at conventions or colleges. I don’t think the normie internet could exist like that, it was just hobbyists and hikikomori types.
Aux@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Federation in it’s current state won’t solve that problem either.
Emperor@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Well it was going to get ActivityPub integration, so something was happening on that front.
Of course, if they don’t want it they could make it open source and let people start their own instances but that’s not going to happen while there’s data to mine.