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FTA: “A longtime popular place to socialize, blog, participate in fandoms, and more, Tumblr originally exited to Yahoo (also TechCrunch’s parent) for north of
by Terretta 2y ago
FTA:
“A longtime popular place to socialize, blog, participate in fandoms, and more, Tumblr originally exited to Yahoo (also TechCrunch’s parent) for north of $1 billion under then-CEO Marissa Mayer’s leadership in 2013. The hope at the time was to transform Tumblr into another social media powerhouse and to grow its ads business. However, the subsequent years were rough on Tumblr, as sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit dominated the space.”
That last sentence just skips the whole story.
Verizon bought Yahoo in 2017, thinking the way to "grow the ad business" was to dump the "and more" part of Tumblr in 2018. It took less than a year for Verizon to look for a way to avoid being reminded of this miscalculation. Asking 0.3% of Yahoo's price did the trick in 2019.
This isn't so long ago. The omission is interesting.
- deepsun 2y agoDidn't get what you're saying. What is "and more" part of Tumblr?
- avandekleut 2y agoNamely adult content. They began heavily moderating this kind of stuff, leading to a mass exodus, in particular to twitter which was amenable to it.
- bhaak 2y agoNot to Reddit? I hardly ever saw adult content on Twitter.
- debacle 2y agoReddit still has a lot of adult content, but AFAIK you can't find it unless you know where it is.
- SV_BubbleTime 2y agoI know the search in Reddit is absolute trash, but let’s not pretend such silly things, okay?
- ribosometronome 2y agoDon't you need to toggle the setting on if you use the official app? Plenty of folk will never look there.
- dpassens 2y agoPlenty of folk won't want adult content to show up in their search results. I'd wager that those that do are capable enough to check their settings, given that they should know concepts like safe search from google.
- dpassens 2y agoAt least on old.reddit.com, underneath the searchbar is an expandable help section that, among others, explains the nsfw: search parameter. I'd hardly call that hidden.
- Ylpertnodi 2y agoWas for me. But...er...thanks.
- red_admiral 2y agoAs an added "bonus", old.reddit.com bypasses the age verification too. You have to click a button, but you don't need to sign in or make an account or verify anything.
- Magi604 2y agointeresting...
- triyambakam 2y ago
- TheRealPomax 2y agoThat's because Twitter, in a weird twist of "that... makes sense?" doesn't algorithmically push sexual content out to the masses. It's a rare case of a feed algorithm actually keeping the right content away from you.
- dleeftink 2y agoDon't most feed algorithms adhere to keeping certain content away in favour of others?
- TheRealPomax 2y agoThat's literally what a feed algorithm does, yes.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 2y agoOh, there's a boatload of adult material on Twitter. It's also one of the main clearnet sites used to share CSAM links, unfortunately. Twitter is kind of a cesspool, really. Even more so post Musk.
- trompetenaccoun 2y ago>It's also one of the main clearnet sites used to share CSAM links, unfortunately. [...] Even more so post Musk. Even 4chan removes child sexual abuse material at lightening speed. There isn't any major social media site that allows this. If it's even more now, would you be able to name an account that shares such stuff? Or are we supposed to believe this without evidence? And as far as porn goes sure. The thing about Twitter is you wouldn't see porn unless you specifically go and look for it. Which is why I always find it amusing when people complain about this "problem". There is no porn in people's feeds by default, one has to train the algo to show it by searching for it and interacting with porn accounts. It's especially funny since on Twitter itself there are always conservative or Christian accounts complaining to Musk that they see too much adult content and that he needs to ban it.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 2y agoYou want me to share CSAM accounts? You realise you're asking me to commit a crime, right? I don't know any such accounts because I don't go looking for such things. It's just a well known fact that Twitter has a CSAM problem. A quick google search will show you plenty of media coverage on that fact. It's also well known that moderation on Twitter has suffered under Musk due to massive layoffs. Of course, most of this porn stuff is never seen by most users because it's not favoured by The Algorithm. I'm just pointing out it's definitely all there. As far as legal porn I'm generally in favour of it being allowed on most platforms.
- trompetenaccoun 2y agoYou claimed the problem got worse but if you've never seen it yourself, what data are those "well known" facts based on? Also naming names of criminals is not illegal, I'm confident you know this.
- tsimionescu 2y agoVirtually all pornography creators have a significant presence on Twitter.
- mdbauman 2y agoTo me, it wasn't just moderating adult content, it was the way they went about it. They used an AI to review every existing post, which resulted in many false positives, and deleted everything it deemed inappropriate. I was drawing a lot at the time, and many of my portraits with no nudity at all were deleted. That was my sign to leave.
- Mistletoe 2y agoWhere did you go to?
- qingcharles 2y agoAnd now they've reversed track and allow adult content again if you self-tag it NSFW.
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