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What's your plan to wind down Tumblr?

• photomatt 7y ago
  We are planning to do the opposite: excited to invest into the platform. The web needs open and independent publishing and social media more than ever.
  • rhegart 7y ago
    Thanks! Hope you guys can turn it around. Good blogging platforms are better for evolving ideas than Twitter.
  • opencl 7y ago
    Are there any plans to improve the automated porn flagging system which seems to have a very annoyingly high false positive rate at the moment?
    • photomatt 7y ago
      I can imagine that false positives are incredibly frustrating for legit creators, and something we will try to eliminate.
      • Mindwipe 7y ago
        Ha, claiming liberal viewpoints and then lets the mask slip by describing creators of adult content, sex workers etc as outside "legit creators".
        • lugg 7y ago
          Legitimate content creators would be frustrated by being flagged as posting illegitimate content would they not? Or are you just trying to take this out of context because of a casual tone?
  • Causality1 7y ago
    How can you claim to embrace "open and independent publishing" while doubling down on the world's most widely-mocked censorship initiative?
  • curryst 7y ago
    Does it? There are an awful lot of platforms that support the kind of content Tumblr supports now. How is this meaningfully different from a WordPress account, or a user subreddit, or a Medium blog, or even Facebook? How is Tumblr going to provide a platform that is substantially different from those? There are more open platforms. There are more popular platforms. There are more independent platforms. How is the new Tumblr going to improve on the existing options?
    • filleduchaos 7y ago
      To be honest, I cannot think of any other large social media platform that has anything close to the sheer expressiveness of Tumblr.
    • djsumdog 7y ago
      The future needs to be distributed. Less Tumblr/Facebook/Twitter and more ActivityPub/Mastodon/Pleroma/Pixefed .. when people get use to federated networks, they'll understand how they work. They'll understand how it's like hosting your own game server, and everyone can do it, and you can ban servers you don't like without having those servers really go away to anyone but you. The future is not centralized. The future is distributed.
      • wp381640 7y ago
        > The future is not centralized. The future is distributed. been hearing this promise for so long, it's becoming a meme like The Year of Desktop Linux
        • feanaro 7y ago
          Some things happen on a larger scale than several years.
          • solarkraft 7y ago
            Funnily enough the Linux desktop appears to be slowly but surely catching on.
  • notyourday 7y ago
    I guess my rather naive question is "if the platform is to accept only the same kind of safe content then what is its USP compared to Facebook/Instagram/Reddit/etc?"
  • dwd 7y ago
    Reading between the lines... Was Facebook/Instagram also in the market for Tumbler or was it just Verison getting close to killing it off and fishing around for a last minute buyer? Good luck with it anyway - we need more independant platforms rather than a few mono-cultures.
• kevando 7y ago
  made me lol