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[-] atomicpoet@kbin.earth 21 points 4 months ago

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

[-] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 10 points 4 months 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

[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

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

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Automattic declined to share a time frame as to when the migration would be complete, given its scale, but a rep for the company called the progress so far “exciting.”

Yeah, they've been talking about this for years now.

[-] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 11 points 4 months ago

God I hope my instance defederates with them.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 39 points 4 months ago

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

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Tumblr is terrible

Stay terrible fam.

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

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

[-] m_f@discuss.online 13 points 4 months ago

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

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 months 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 4 months ago

That would be when they banned porn in 2018.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

probably, I remember something along those lines

[-] maplebar@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 months ago

I'll believe it when I see it

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago

The article seems well-written, except that:

the fediverse — the open social web powered by the protocol ActivityPub also used by Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard, and others.

Seriously? Flipboard has like one thousand Monthly Active Users and we have like 50 times that, but we're like "and others" lel... I guess they didn't mention Pixelfed either tho and it's a lot "hotter"...

[-] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

That article is intended for casual readers. These people might be more familiar with Flipboard than Lemmy or Pixelfed.

The same way that people are familiar with Blackberry or Nokia despite none of them even reach mainstream market anymore.

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee -1 points 4 months ago

Last thing we need is casual news readers joining. This is the dark souls of the fediverse and I am the undead burg twink invader.

[-] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 4 months ago

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 4 months 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 4 months 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.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months 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.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Skill issue

[-] LaminatedDenim@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

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

[-] HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 3 points 4 months ago

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

[-] LaminatedDenim@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

The porn will strike you down with a vicious blow!

[-] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 4 months ago

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

[-] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 4 months 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 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Verizon sold Tumblr to WordPress in 2019

[-] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 2 points 4 months ago

tumblr is life

[-] Viri4thus@feddit.org 2 points 4 months ago
[-] Willowthewisp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

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

[-] b3an@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Wow, way to try staying relevant I guess? They had a huge following and the porn was flowing during the good times. They blew their chance and now it’s a shell of itself. Fuck Tumblr.

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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 4 months ago
[-] quokka1@mastodon.au 1 points 4 months ago

@Krompus @DoucheBagMcSwag

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

Is it still the same SJW hellhole it was a decade ago?

[-] Whateley@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Lol, people are still using SJW as a snarl world in 2025?

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

No, the word is DEI now.

this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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