another case of a company thinking they owned the commons when in reality the commons owned them.
enjoying watching this phase of social media, someone get me some gasoline
Lol- i don’t need a video to know blocking porn was the downfall of tumblr.
Used to be kinda nice. They had… very specialized communities for certain things.
Lol- i don’t need a video to know blocking porn was the downfall of tumblr.
So you’re saying you watched a 40 minute video in one minute and I shouldn’t have posted it because it’s the only valid point the video makes?
Or did you rather just read the title of the video and assumed that its content was 40 minutes of repeating what was said in the title in long form?
No matter what platform we move to, many people will still stop paying attention at the headline.
Good point. It’s OK if they do that, but writing comments if you didn’t engage at all with the content apart from the title is useless to everyone involved. I wish people started to understand this.
I am saying- I never clicked on the video.
I just remember how tumblr basically died out overnight after blocking/banner/restricting its vibrant porn community…
it’s not about porn, though, as you can’t simply replace the adult content on Tumblr with porn on Twitter, Pornhub etc. – it’s about exploring your sexual identity in a very unique way. I recommend you watch the video.
Wish these were articles, video is so slow.
That said: killing off porn loses tones of people every time. They dont want to admit that its what destroyed tumblr.
Wish these were articles, video is so slow.
That’s part of the appeal for me. And that it’s more visual with more pictures than the average article.
But you can also increase the speed to 2x, then it’s faster (:
My opinion:
There are a lot of lessons we can learn from the downfall of tumblr for the Fediverse aswell. I am glad there are Mastodon communities which welcome explicit content creators. But some of the comments for that video suggest that they aren’t able to connect to people outside of that bubble, since their instances might block NSFW ones.
In addition to that, blocking tags like #abuse is an awesome mental health feature which should definitely be embraced by.the Fediverse and Lemmy in particular.
But some of the comments for that video suggest that they aren’t able to connect to people outside of that bubble, since these people’s instances might block NSFW ones.
I think a lot of times that’s due to the risk of hosting potentially illegal federated content from nsfw instances.
yes, doesn’t change that it’s an issue.
Tangentially related, but I’m reminded of the Good Writers Are Perverts manifesto, that espouses the idea, among others, that perverts that make art about their perversion make good art because they’re passionate about it, and the passion shows alongside the fetish and/or because of it.
https://dominoclub.itch.io/good-writers-are-perverts
Certainly worth a couple minutes of your time.
TL;DW.
You got a summary?
Tumblr was a safe haven for a lot of LGBTQ niches, for most of them it was the only place they could go that wasn’t fetishized to hell. They created a safe place for those. For some of them there were blogs that were NSFW technically but they were about sex ed.
Banning NSFW wasn’t removing dudes shoving porn spam, it was about removing all of those safe havens. With those gone for some it was no longer what they need d and for the rest it proves that the trust had been lost.
People like porn and it’s most of the activity on the internet. Taking porn away means you lose a substantial portion of your activity, including people who used your site for both sfw and nsfw content and shit snowballs as advertisers and other members see activity die.
I’m guessing. I didn’t watch either.
very abbreviated tl;dw: Adult content mattered because people could express and explore their sexual identity, not only LGBTQ+ people but everyone. After that disappeared, the users didn’t want to interact with a corporate site which is trying to exploit them. It went from indie project to Verizon/Oath daughter company.
