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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by lucideer on Monday June 20, 2022 @08:05AM (#31809284)
Even if you have some moral objection to porn that's still a massive oversimplification:

1) The definition of porn is fluid - adhering to an external third party's guidelines (Apple's) will always mean adopting an overly strict definition to ensure confidence in compliance

2) Moderation is a hard problem - false positives will always happen, and given point (1) above will happen a LOT in the case of Tumblr

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by mgiannopoulos on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:09PM (#31812783)
Not sure where I said I have problems with porn. It’s just that it was something outside of tumblr’s business model or any of their income sources
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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by lucideer on Monday June 20, 2022 @06:41PM (#31817156)
Just to be clear, I didn't say you had problems with it: hence the "even if" preface.

However, calling tumblr "dead" as a result of it does seem to imply such a problem. Their business model was ads, that doesn't inherently exempt porn in any way.

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by mgiannopoulos on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @04:13AM (#31821542)
I doubt any ads served next to erotic/porn/whateveryoucallit perform well. And if that’s 50% of your traffic, that is not working well for you or make you a company worth hundreds of millions.
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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by lucideer on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @06:02AM (#31822191)
You seem extremely intent on ignoring my above points about the definition of porn not being a binary. There are plenty of porn-adjacent things that advertise well / perform well alongside. In fact, a lot of it will cater to narrowly targeted commercial niches that are valuable in themselves purely for the ability to identify them.
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