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.
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.
That’s not good, especially as they wanted to join the Fediverse in the future.
I mean there’s Pixelfed which is similar, the communities could just migrate to that.
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
Nah you’re on the mark, it was more like the older Internet where you were just a username and didn’t have your entire identity attached to your account. And yeah, for better or worse Tumblr was known to have a very insular community with weird interests and trends. That’s how we got Goncharov.
Two other things about Tumblr that no other site has managed to capture are longer format posts and being able to reblog multi-user conversations. Everything else prevents you from making longer posts outside of screenshotting a notes app.
Didn’t know this existed. Good to know.
It was so good. Even without considering the porn I mean
Tumblr has been “on life support” for years now, if it’s gonna croak then I’ll believe it when I see it.
yeah since they banned porn lmao
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.
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.
The server time alone is probably in the millions a year. Server time is cheap on a small scale, but it adds up.
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
