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Re:Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr by RenRav on Friday May 03, 2019 @08:45AM (#19817885)
What's interesting is that the content doesn't seem purged. All the accounts with porn just have their blogs hidden, but like 90% of the images and such are still hosted and can be directly accessed. Someone could easily reverse this and slap on monetization features, because even today there doesn't seem to be any decent tumblr replacement, not reddit, not twitter. That seems unlikely to happen though.
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Re:Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr by Izkata on Friday May 03, 2019 @05:25PM (#19822436)
That is in fact exactly what happened. The implementation was rushed and/or inept to the point it's near-impossible for me to believe this was something they were already working on:

* Tumblrs that weren't marked adult got marked as such by their new algorithm. This included the text-only official announcement post itself.

* The actual block was done by turning on safe mode for all users, and removing the toggle from the settings page. For a short time, some people were supposedly able to turn in back off by adding that setting back to the POST manually.

* The setting doesn't affect your dashboard, so you can still see new posts by those you follow, even though there's no way to browse to their page directly.

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Re:Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr by notyourday on Friday May 03, 2019 @09:53AM (#19818429)
That gets us back to Tumblr being a money losing enterprise. The question is what is a working strategy to monetize a massive user content driven platform where advertisers view on that content is somewhere between the gigantic landfill on fire and a nuclear waste.
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Re:Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr by RenRav on Saturday May 04, 2019 @05:24PM (#19829486)
Seems Pornhub is one solution after all, it sure solves the advertising problem... they just put up their own advertisements.

> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/pornh...

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Re:Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr by danaris on Friday May 03, 2019 @03:22PM (#19821426)
As I understand it (as a light Tumblr user, in areas adjacent to but almost entirely outside of the NSFW sections), a significant number of the porn blogs have, in fact, been deleted, as well as a significant number of blogs or posts on blogs that were flagged as porn by their egregiously terrible porn-finding algorithm, but were in fact nothing of the kind.

However, the porn spambots still keep popping up periodically, and there are still loads of Nazi/alt-right blogs that Tumblr doesn't seem to have any intention of doing anything about.

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