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 seems like a lot of work considering the alternatives.
No website (that I’ve ever found) has quite managed to replicate how tumblr works in terms of discovery, customization, community, and organization, so some people prefer to put in the work for the sake of using a format they prefer.
how tumblr works in terms of discovery
I really like Tumblr (mainly because RSS support), but I find their search VERY limited. Maybe I’m being stupid, but I haven’t been able to search for 2 tags at the same time (e.g.: “#artists on tumblr” and some genre “#pixelart”).
In general I find very difficult to filter repost and look for original content only.
Do you have any tips?
When I say discovery I mean it’s much easier to be discovered as an artist on tumblr compared to any other website I’ve used.
I find it’s easier to find certain new stuff if you follow the right people or look through more specific tags.
It is.
But you end up with a highly curated experience for your particular fetish that’s not readily available on pornhub, ET al.
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.
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
That’s not good, especially as they wanted to join the Fediverse in the future.
Word from insiders communicating openly about it was that it wasn’t going to happen for the same reasons behind this soft end of life: there wasn’t profit in it and they needed to find profitability.
Word was that the project to federate was internally put in a “too hard let’s try later” basket. Of course none of that was made public. But this life support status is really just the other shoe from the broken federation promise.
Interestingly, I suspect there’s a conversation to be had around how difficult it is to federate with the fediverse and AP, whether from the ground up or as an add on. I’ve seen conversations about how it really is difficult work. If it were easier, maybe things like tumblr would have done it earlier and the fediverse and it’s various platforms would be richer and more successful.
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
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.
