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[-] atomicpoet@kbin.earth 18 points 1 week ago

It really would be so much easier to just boost Mastodon posts into a Lemmy community.

[-] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago

that's crazy talk, next you'll be telling us we should be able to actually block people from seeing and interacting with our posts

[-] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

God I hope my instance defederates with them.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 week ago

Why? Tumblr is terrible, but in a good way.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Tumblr is terrible

Stay terrible fam.

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

You could just block them yourself if you don't like leftist spaces that much

[-] m_f@discuss.online 13 points 1 week ago

Tumblr doesn't really strike me as leftist, so much as having a low signal:noise ratio

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

In the early-to-mid 2010s Tumblr was mainly associated with "social justice" types of people, it seems to have become a lot less relevant at some point in the late 2010s.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

That would be when they banned porn in 2018.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

probably, I remember something along those lines

[-] maplebar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Instead of hoping your instance does something, just make your own instance. That's the whole idea.

[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I'm sure I've read this headline before and nothing came of it then.

All of you who were making a fuss over Threads had better act the same way about this - after all, it's Verizon.

[-] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 32 points 1 week ago

No, Verizon does not own Tumblr. Verizon sold Tumblr to Automattic, the owner of WordPress.com, in August 2019

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

I don't understand the logic. Verizon buys tumblr, knowing it has porn, knowing porn is what makes it popular.

Kills porn.

Kills the valuation of the brand

Sells for far less than they bought it for.

Explain please.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Skill issue

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

They gambled that the additional ad revenue they'd be able to bring in with a sanitized web site would be greater than the revenue lost from some of their userbase leaving the site. It was a bad gamble.

[-] LaminatedDenim@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Wait wasn't it yahoo that initially killed the porn?

[-] HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 3 points 1 week ago

This all sounds like the Tenacious D song about trying to kill Rock & Roll

[-] LaminatedDenim@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The porn will strike you down with a vicious blow!

Oh. So it depends on your position on WPEngine instead.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 1 week ago

depends on whether matt mullenweg knows you exist

also i've only just realized why he named the company auto-matt-ic oh my god

[-] EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Verizon sold Tumblr to WordPress in 2019

[-] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

I'll believe it when I see it

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

Why did you link to a Mastodon post and not the actual article?

[-] Viri4thus@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago
[-] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

tumblr is life

[-] Willowthewisp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Oh you mean the one run by a conservative who’s a massive bigot? Greaaaaat.

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As long as the NSFW comes over. The block button is right there for anyone who doesn't like it

[-] Krompus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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