I deadass wanna buy Tumblr from Yahoo/Verizon. Like I’d start a fundraiser for people who wanted this site to stay ‘good’ and use that to buy Tumblr. It’d stay the same (minus unnecessary flagging of both sf*w and ns*fw) except I would have people get rid of p*rn b*ts, N*zis, p*d*files, and whatever else that is plaguing this hellsite. I wouldn’t run it alone though, I can’t code for shit, but I’d ask ya’ll or professionals to help out.

Also sorry for all the *. I’m not looking for this post to get flagged or my blog to get muted.

mapelie:

nomadicism:

Sounds drastic. Especially for content creators who may still need Tumblr for commissions while they find an alternative.

If you can swing it, here’s why:

I suspect that the December 17th deadline is so that Verizon/Yahoo can clean house and make Tumblr appealing to investors. This is a Q4/Q1 fire sale kind of thing. It makes a certain amount of business sense to make this change. Human-lead content curation (e.g. separating the CP from the legit) is expensive and time-consuming. I doubt they have the money for it. They already sold off Flickr. As a long-time Flickr pro user, I’m not pleased by the change and increase in pro account price, but I get it.

Investors are looking for a user base. User base is a prime attraction for investment or buy-out for a social media platform or application (I speak from experience as a co-founder of Rhinobird.tv).

Every account that is cancelled will be one less account in Tumblr’s user base for their pitch. I assume that there are millions of accounts with some percentage simply being abandoned accounts that haven’t been used in years. So cancelling one’s account on the way out the door won’t really matter unless the number of cancelled accounts reaches several hundred thousand at least.

If you decide to leave and cancel, then I also recommend sending a polite message to Tumblr staff, or tweet to the account about why you are leaving.

Finally, using Twitter to voice your concerns and thoughts about this issue will increase its visibility. They ain’t gonna like that. Media outlets that cater to tech entrepreneurs, and Silicon Valley types are going to be all over this.

I never ask for reblogs, but I will this one time.

Ooooohhh… Is that so?

qarukhel:

aregularboy:

heads up before you spend $$ on pillowfort, especially note the paypal thing. the io domain concern does not seem carefully enforced but is in the TOS so 🤷

For my friends considering pillowfort.io.

mapelie:

angelpassing:

angelpassing:

angelpassing:

is being into coffee an older sibling thing bc everyone i know who loves coffee is the oldest child

like every oldest child ik loves coffee, the middle child hates it/prefers tea, and the youngest will drink it but only if its super sweet n has a ton of milk

rb w/ if ur oldest, middle, or youngest child and how u feel about coffee

😂😂😂 I’m the eldest and I hate coffee.

I’m the oldest/second oldest (depends on of you count my older step sister) and I only drink coffee if it is really sweet and has tons of milk, but only once in awhile. I prefer tea.

voidedmuffin:

oginochihiro:

oh cool some new astronomy news whats good astro-

oh no

oh no

I REALLY wanna say it but I also REALLY don’t wanna get flagged.

prokopetz:

It literally just occurred to me now that Marvin the Martian dresses like a centurion because Mars is the Roman god of war. That visual pun has been sailing over my head for thirty-five goddamn years, and it took a shitpost about Female Presenting Nipples to clue me in.

How old where you when you found out hat Marvin the Martian dresses like a centurion because Mars is the Roman god of war.

I was today years old