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Re:Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr by notyourday on Friday May 03, 2019 @07:46AM (#19817497)
It is numbers: if the cost of servicing those users in a non-safe content is X, they are worth it only if the revenue received from them in a non-safe content Y is either ~X or > X.

Unprofitable eyeballs leaving decreases the losses, making a business more valuable.

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Re:Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr by ryan_j_naughton on Friday May 03, 2019 @08:36AM (#19817822)
Not if there is an ecosystem effect, and you need those people to ensure that all the safe content has enough producers, consumers, commenters, etc to make it a living, community and ecosystem.
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Re:Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr by notyourday on Friday May 03, 2019 @09:50AM (#19818410)
Those effects did not work for Tumblr. Tumblr always lost money. That's exactly how it ended up in this situation.
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