“The underlying problem is that Tumblr is not easy to use.”
They’re bringing back the porn?
Nah they added a “mature” and “sexual” content option for posts but they will still restrict posts to only be visible to you. And it seems that there’s no clear line. I’ve had posted restricted of women in bikinis
Ah, so it’s even worse now?
I love !CuratedTumblr but that’s as far as I go.
It’s disturbing how many platforms would be improved by just making that one change.
As the old saying goes, “The internet is made for porn.” I’m not crazy about this whole push to mainstream the internet for the sake of advertisers. I don’t give a damn about advertisers, and I don’t want them to clean up the web the way Ghoul-iani cleaned up New York or people in Nevada sanitized Las Vegas.
Sadly, sanitized ad-driven walled gardens have been prevalent for some long you’ll find grown-ass adults who follow and upvote blatant but barely allowed thirst traps talking that porn is evil and that those platforms are better without it. Their brains have been molded by the constraints of corporate prudishness.
Tumblr was never easy to use; that was my main issue with the site well before its resurrection by Automattic. (Also, the whiners. Oh god, that place was chock full of bleeding heart weenies who tried to out-white knight each other at every turn.)
tl;dr: clueless tumblr staff want to turn the dashboard into a twitter feed. Needless to say, everyone (including myself) is angry about it.
I think Tumblr’s brand just got ruined. They were known for their nsfw material and now they don’t know what else to do with their lack of users.
Yeah, this won’t go well.