Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff

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• halfempty@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hard to believe Tumblr lasted this long even. They killed like 3/4 of their content (and audience) when they decided to not have any porn like 4 years ago. Everybody left. An early example of enshitification.

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  • 432hz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They… Still have SO MUCH PORN.

    You can’t search for it directly, you have to search tangential items and then follow other people who post stuff you like.

    It’s a rabbit hole but it’s there.

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• SamXavia@kbin.run ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That's not good, especially as they wanted to join the Fediverse in the future.

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  • aodhsishaj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean there’s Pixelfed which is similar, the communities could just migrate to that.

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    • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I feel like it’s a different format and use case?

      Pixelfed feels more like Instagram, which is with real profiles with names attached sharing photo updates about their lives with friends and family

      Tumblr feels like it’s more for niche communities and semi-anonymous posting. Although I personally haven’t used it as much so I might be off there

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    • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Didn’t know this existed. Good to know.

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• Laticauda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tumblr has been “on life support” for years now, if it’s gonna croak them I’ll believe it when I see it.

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  • nicman24@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    yeah since they banned porn lmao

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• redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  After quotes and anecdotes about love, loss, mountain climbing, and learning on the journey, the memo notes that nobody will be let go and that team members can make a ranked list of their top three preferred assignments elsewhere inside Automattic.

  Other companies would’ve used the opportunity to fire most of the team. Kudos to Automattic.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Damn it costs $30M a year to keep Tumblr running? I figured it could be handled for like 20 cents a day. Like those starving kids on TV.

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The server time alone is probably in the millions a year. Server time is cheap on a small scale, but it adds up.

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• itscozydownhere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It was so good. Even without considering the porn I mean

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• nix@merv.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m really surprised theres no Tumblr esque fediverse website. I wonder if them teasing activitypub support killed want for other developers to want to work on one

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