Comment on Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 7 months agoThey didnt really try to.
A lot of the new money making features were half assed, and got abandoned pretty quickly after release. Lots of users who wanted to support them have complained that they seem to not want the money.
stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 7 months ago
They’ve also added features no one wants. For example, the recent “Tumblr Live” nonsense, which is basically Twitch meets Shorts. It’s at the top of your feed and you can’t permanently turn it off - you can turn it off for what was a week, then a month. They wasted money and time to get that feature going, one that you also cost a lot because hosting video isn’t cheap, when NO ONE goes to tumblr to look at random cam girls.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Lol, never used Tumblr, but that sounds terrible. I hate how they want to change all social media to the exact same thing, instead or leaving us with different choices.
stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 7 months ago
Yeah, same. It’s like they think unique identities is bad.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s about aiming for the lowest common denomninator to maximize user number and engagement. Autoplaying short vids in a feed that you didn’t curate - all things optimized to trick your monkey brain for one more scroll or one more click. Works on everybody from children to elderly.