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TIL there’s a Twitter alternative called tumblr, which has been around since 2007

• jatins 4y ago
  You just learned about Tumblr today? Curious which generation/age group are you? Tumblr was pretty big among millennials but then sort of died after Yahoo acquisition
  • cercatrova 4y ago
    Then Tumblr mandated that porn be removed which killed it even more. It's now bought and controlled by Automattic which makes WordPress.
    • Izkata 4y ago
      I think this was it more than anything else. It wasn't even just a mandate or just porn, they ran some sort of "is this image mostly skin color?" check against posted images and automatically locked down accounts with matches. Got a huge number of false positives and didn't even notify the owners.
      • aidenn0 4y ago
        I think they were one of the ones to adopt the "female presenting nipple" language as well. I would like to know which lawyer originally came up with that language because I've seen it in many places at this point.
        • homonculus1 4y ago
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        • Izkata 4y ago
          Probably from the users. Tumblr was the origin point of a lot of the now-common "woke language".
          • aidenn0 4y ago
            I doubt that; the users widely mocked the phrase at the time.
  • xrayarx 4y ago
    Yes, well, I’ve been around way before the series of tubes were a thing
• weberer 4y ago
  Oh man, you missed some history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZgxeX2dCnQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZgxeX2dCnQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvjwXhCNZcU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvjwXhCNZcU
• NikolaNovak 4y ago
  Hmm. I always assumed Tumblr was more alternative to Instagram or Pinterest, I. E. Image-oriented (as opposed to "series of tiny messages you can't figure out start, end, or order thereof" that is twitter to me :)