It’s not quite the end of Tumblr, but when management is supposedly sending memos with the Lord Tennyson quote about having “loved and lost,” it doesn’t look like there’s much of a future.
Internet statesman and Waxy.org proprietor Andy Baio posted what is “apparently an internal Automattic memo making the rounds on Tumblr” to Threads. The memo, written to employees at WordPress.com parent company Automattic, which bought Tumblr from Verizon’s media arm in 2019, is titled or subtitled “You win or you learn.” The posted memo states that a majority of the 139 employees working on product and marketing at Tumblr (in a team apparently named “Bumblr”) will “switch to other divisions.” Those working in “Happiness” (Automattic’s customer support and service division) and “T&S” (trust and safety) would remain.
I’ll be honest I thought all the tumblr screencaps on here were 5+ years old until this moment when I learned Tumblr is even still a thing at all.
Sabata11792@kbin.social 1 year ago
We tried to warn you, yet you banned the porn anyways.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I audibly snorted when OnlyFans was going on about this the first time around
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When onlyfans said they were going to stop allowing porn. I was like wait, wut? You’re going to shut down your own product?
krayj@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yeah, this was predicted by everyone, long in advance. The surprising thing here is how long they’ve managed to cling to life. I expected them to be deceased by now. I didn’t think they’d last another three years, let along five.
dragontamer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Verizon banned porn. The new owners have turned more of a blind eye to it.
I know, hard to keep up with all the different owners and their individual policies.
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 1 year ago
They 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.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They honestly didn’t have a choice at the time. They were either going to have to completely moderate content, or get sued to bankruptcy for allowing CSAM all over their platform.
The double-edged sword of user-generated content is that a bunch of them are creeps and not participating to be creative.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Speaking of bans, does anyone know what happens with
community ban
, is that forever or do they give you a cooloff time or what? I still get notifs, just can’t respond to anythingUndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 1 year ago
“Community ban” as in you’re banned from a community? Unless the mods set a specific duration, it’s perpetual. If you think you are banned from a community check the mod log or ask the moderators.