• go $fsck yourself@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Fuck Tumblr. Fuck WordPress. Fuck Automattic. And fuck Matt.

    Tumblr has some interesting content from users, but the platform is awful and it’s even worse since Automattic bought it. Also, the trend to put the entire contents of the post in hashtags is flat-out stupid and infuriating.

    Automatic is a tremendously terrible company, and Matt is an egotistical pile of garbage.

  • kyonshi@piefed.social
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    14 hours ago

    No shit. AFAIK Tumblr us circling the drain as it is and barely able to keep the lights on

  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al
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    21 hours ago

    At this point I’m convinced that the Fediverse integration is just a means of marketing for them. Everyone should boycott the cockteasing bastards.

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      21 hours ago

      I’m not sure of what I’m talking about exactly, but I vaguely suspect that integrating with the fediverse will make some of their less ethical practices at tumbler too transparent and obvious.

      But that is one part hunch and one part cynical belief, I don’t know of the details

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        21 hours ago

        It’s your personal lifetime of experience saying “if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…”

        Tumblr is a for profit company like many of their peers in the social media industry. They will latch onto anything of perceived value and suck it dry for their own gain then toss it aside when no longer useful to their profit margins

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          I am more surprised than I should be at how quickly the Fedi pitch went from “we want a future where everything is interoperable everywhere” to “we don’t want any interaction with for profit companies”.

          I don’t mind either way, it’s all bad and I shouldn’t be here in the first place, but… you know, it’s weird seeing social patterns develop in real time.

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            20 hours ago

            Fedi is not homogeneus. Each server interacts with who it wants. You could say multiple fedis exist at the same time, and both pitches represent different people.

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              19 hours ago

              Yeah, well, don’t tell them. The fields of Mastodon are still full of the debris of the Great Threads Arguments. Seemed to me everybody thought they had the correct and only Fedi.

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      12 hours ago

      If you subscribe to someone on tumblr then yes. Otherwise i dont think so.