[HN Gopher] Tumblr brings mature content back, after 4 years
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Tumblr brings mature content back, after 4 years
Author : Giorgi
Score : 60 points
Date : 2022-11-02 20:05 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (staff.tumblr.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (staff.tumblr.com)
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| puppable wrote:
| I've personally taken to using Tumblr again after the last few
| months, and I've been hearing increasing talk of moving back to
| it with how things have been looking on Twitter, especially with
| the Musk takeover. This move couldn't have been better timed, and
| I honestly hope it serves them well.
| mrzool wrote:
| Afraid literally nobody cares anymore. Too late.
| notacoward wrote:
| Who are you calling nobody? Like any social-media site, you
| have to choose who/what to follow or block, and there are some
| odd local norms, but it's entirely possible to have a rewarding
| experience there. Better than a certain other site where every
| other comment is a low-effort shallow dismissal or continuation
| of a flame war. There are more people having more fun there
| than all but a handful of other sites, and there's nothing
| wrong with that.
| throwawaydad12 wrote:
| Aside, perhaps amusing: A while ago, I used Tumblr as a modest
| blog of my tech adventures. Put a link to that on my LinkedIn
| page.
|
| A year or two passed, and while applying for jobs, it occurred to
| me to check that link. Without telling me, Tumblr had given my
| URL away to someone who enjoyed posting naked pictures of
| herself. Lesson learned.
|
| (In truth, given the quality of most tech resumes, I'd be quite
| happy to click on one and be shown that.)
| bastawhiz wrote:
| I think if there was ever a time to make this change, it's right
| now. I went through much of my teenage years with Tumblr and
| welcome it's potential return. Hopefully Automattic can be a
| better custodian than Yahoo/Verizon/Oath/whatever.
| seydor wrote:
| They should allow porn too. Time to compete with twitter.
| digianarchist wrote:
| > "visual depictions of sexually explicit acts remain off-limits
| on Tumblr"
|
| This is not the porn site you are looking for...
| Overtonwindow wrote:
| I'm very amused. After $1 billion dollars blown on this platform,
| blocking mature content caused everyone to run away.
| loceng wrote:
| It was sold to Automattic by Verizon for only $3 million.. Deal
| of the century.
| metadat wrote:
| How would you convert the $3m Tumblr investment into a
| profit? Just ads?
|
| At this point the brand has been trashed and tarnished.
| nl wrote:
| There's a lot of love for the Tumblr brand out there and
| people love a redemption story.
| metadat wrote:
| No doubt, but my question remains: How would you help
| Tumblr lives it's best and most profitable life, to
| recoup the investment cost?
| lethoso wrote:
| Roll back the restrictions & add some light advertising &
| premium junk like reddit's. They bought it for 3 million,
| they don't have to turn it into a giant for it to be a
| happy profitable business.
| nl wrote:
| It still gets a _huge_ amount of traffic.
|
| It's not really a mystery how to make that work: Ads,
| premium memberships.
|
| No need to be particularly innovative on that front.
| Maybe do the NFT Avatar thing that Reddit is killing it
| with.
| puppable wrote:
| Tumblr trying to get their users into NFT avatars would
| be possibly the single funniest hellstorm the internet
| has seen in ages.
| favorited wrote:
| I wonder what their strategy is to avoid what made them ban NSFW
| content in the first place-the significant amount of CSAM that
| had been posted to their platform.
| bborud wrote:
| From wikipedia: "As of July 2021, Tumblr hosts more than 529
| million blogs."
|
| That's a lot bigger than I had imagined. I wonder how many of
| those blogs are active and how many are dead.
| valdiorn wrote:
| Tumblr who? Never heard of them.
|
| Seriously, do they think they can revive the platform 4 years
| after killing it?
| rx_tx wrote:
| A lot of adult creators moved to Twitter when Tumblr closed.
| Given what's happening there right now, it may not be the worst
| timing for Tumblr to again offer their platform as an option.
| willio58 wrote:
| Ironically twitter (musk) is bringing back Vine, another
| neglected would-be giant social media app.
| pessimizer wrote:
| This is both good news and good positioning while US
| nationalists are doing an anti-China jihad. Vine should
| have been tiktok.
|
| edit: it does create the seed of a suspicion that Musk and
| the Biden Administration are haggling behind the scenes
| about how much "private" censorship is going to happen. If
| Vine reopens and tiktok gets banned, it'll be a lot more
| than a seed.
| ramesh31 wrote:
| >Vine should have been tiktok.
|
| This fact alone should serve as cause to fire the entire
| executive suite responsible for the decision. I never
| understood this. It made zero sense. Vine was
| _exploding_. It had completely captured the zeitgeist.
| Hundreds of millions of MAUs. And Twitter canned it for
| absolutely no reason. Pure incompetence.
| givemeethekeys wrote:
| > Given what's happening there right now
|
| Isn't Twitter moving towards allowing more things?
| FactolSarin wrote:
| There's a tension between allowing more things and being a
| welcoming platform that people enjoy participating in. I
| don't think anyone really knows how things at Twitter will
| land yet.
| willis936 wrote:
| I would say "in the trash bin" but the general mood is
| that's where it's been for a long time.
| lemoncookiechip wrote:
| > being a welcoming platform that people enjoy
| participating in.
|
| Not to sound rude or anything, but that ship sailed a
| very long time ago. No one thinks of Twitter as anything
| but a toxic cesspool filled with bots, bad takes, and the
| odd chance of getting cancelled. People still engage in
| it, but they do so despite knowing what the platform is.
|
| As for what Elon will do to it, well, no one knows, but
| its future isn't looking great as of right now with all
| his recent Tweets.
| mindcrime wrote:
| _No one thinks of Twitter as anything but a toxic
| cesspool filled with bots, bad takes, and the odd chance
| of getting cancelled._
|
| That's complete bollocks IMO. Twitter has it's issues, to
| be sure. But honestly, if one puts any care at all into
| managing their experience by being selective about who
| they follow, and using the "mute" and "block" features
| frequently, Twitter can be fine. I use it mainly to
| follow AI/ML news and to interact with other Dolphins
| fans during football season. In no regard do I look at it
| as nothing but "a toxic cesspool...".
|
| Now if I chose to follow a lot of people who engage in
| political discourse, and chose to tweet a lot about
| politics, I'd probably feel the same way you do. But
| again... "mute" and "block" are your friends.
| delecti wrote:
| > No one thinks of Twitter as anything but a toxic
| cesspool
|
| I do. I keep my timeline on "latest" and it's a perfectly
| pleasant experience filled with only tweets from the
| people I've followed (and their retweets, which I also
| have mostly off).
|
| Keeping the Twitter timeline on their algorithmic "home"
| feed is mentally/emotionally as risky, reckless, and
| self-destructive as drunk driving is physically, but
| keeping it on latest is a totally reasonable experience.
| I see more obnoxiously bad takes here than I do there.
| Giorgi wrote:
| It is only toxic cesspool if you are far-left following
| that type of media, anything out of ordinary radical-left
| content triggers such user. I follow many very
| interesting SEO authors. It's never toxic.
| odessacubbage wrote:
| >visual depictions of sexually explicit acts remain off-
| limits on Tumblr
|
| looking at the new terms, tumblr still is not an option.
| pelagicAustral wrote:
| Just went in there and the first recommended trending post is a
| Twitter screencap...
| eatonphil wrote:
| Often popular posts on LinkedIn are Twitter screencaps.
|
| And often popular posts on Twitter are just TikTok captures.
|
| Not a huge surprise.
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