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'''A''': You must employ a Navigator. A bloated inbred freak of nature who has a special mental capacity to read the curents of Tumblr. Going alone is equal to suicide. |
'''A''': You must employ a Navigator. A bloated inbred freak of nature who has a special mental capacity to read the curents of Tumblr. Going alone is equal to suicide. |
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| from [http://warosu.org/tg/thread/46213256#p46219176 a /tg/ thread] (on [[Warhammer 40,000]]) }} |
| from [http://warosu.org/tg/thread/46213256#p46219176 a /tg/ thread] (on [[Warhammer 40,000]]) }} |
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{{quote|So, in short, here is what happened to [Live Journal]: 1) LJ was sold to SixApart; 2) SixApart tried to monetize it; 3) SixApart got pressure from a) the Russian government, b) the Christian anti-porn police, and c) advertisers to bring its "adult content problem" under control; 4) LJ deleted a whole bunch of blogs, backed up and said "mea culpa", and then... deleted a whole bunch of blogs; and 5) SixApart sold LJ to the Russians. |
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Following this pattern, here is what I suspect is going to happen to Tumblr: 1) Tumblr was sold to Yahoo (now owned by Verizon); 2) Yahoo/Verizon tried to monetize it; 3) Yahoo/Verizon got pressure from a) various governments, including Indonesia and China, b) the anti-porn/anti-sex-work/anti-shipping moral purity police, and c) [ETA for advertisers link] advertisers/the Apple Store to bring its "adult content problem" under control; 4) starting earlier this year, Tumblr deleted a whole bunch of blogs, backed up and said "mea culpa", and then... changed its TOS and started deleting content [← we're here right now]; and 5) Verizon will sell Tumblr to ? ? ? |
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My point, here, is just that we have been here before. Exactly here. We have done this before, exactly this. Tumblr may take a while to bleed out, and they may try to triage it, but the writing is, in fact, on the wall: Tumblr will throw us off whatever cliffs they need to to try and eke out a profit for the morons in Verizon's boardroom; and in the end, our data's going to get deleted, or it's going to get sold, because that is just how these things go. |
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So we need to figure out where we go next. |
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|"greywash", [https://greywash.dreamwidth.org/46038.html "State of the Migration: On fannish archival catastrophes, and what happens next"] on Dreamwidth}} |
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Revision as of 03:19, 6 February 2019
For me, '...dot Tumblr dot com' has been gradually replacing '...would be a good name for a band'. |
Person 1: if an opinion falls in the forest and there’s no one around to hear it does tumblr still get offended by it |
Childish Gambino: Send me naked pics, Imma tumbl that. |
Look, as long as you're gay, bisexual, transexual, pansexual, over-react to every issue that ever turns up, and think you are the most individual person on a website so full of total individuality it all looks the same, you'll fit right in. — Commenter namejawa
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Q: How do I navigate tumblr? — from a /tg/ thread (on Warhammer 40,000)
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So, in short, here is what happened to [Live Journal]: 1) LJ was sold to SixApart; 2) SixApart tried to monetize it; 3) SixApart got pressure from a) the Russian government, b) the Christian anti-porn police, and c) advertisers to bring its "adult content problem" under control; 4) LJ deleted a whole bunch of blogs, backed up and said "mea culpa", and then... deleted a whole bunch of blogs; and 5) SixApart sold LJ to the Russians. —"greywash", "State of the Migration: On fannish archival catastrophes, and what happens next" on Dreamwidth
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