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morrowind@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far

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morrowind@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago
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At WordCamp Canada 2025, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg called Tumblr his “biggest failure,” noting the challenge of maintaining the platform’s half-billion blogs while it remains unprofitable. Though plans to migrate Tumblr to WordPress infrastructure are on hold, Mullenweg said he hasn’t given up.
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    The ban happened because Verizon was trying to sell it.

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      Also, there’s still porn on Tumblr. They stopped trying to block it, now they just exclusicy ban trans women who post porn.

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        Source?

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          https://www.tumblr.com/xkittenxgirl/798038126688944128/tummy?source=share

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            Oh yeah no I know there’s porn on tumblr, I need a source about tumblr banning porn made by trans people

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              How?

              Are you expecting a news article or what?

              Oh i did find news, ok

              https://mashable.com/article/tumblr-transphobia-matt-mullenweg

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                Thanks for the link!

                Are you expecting a news article or what?

                I mean, yeah, that’s how providing a source works. You provide me with a news article that contains sources, or the source itself.

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                  I just didn’t expect any site to write about the bigot Tumblr mods that dispropotionally targeted trans girls for sexual posts that didn’t usualy show nudity or even much skin.

                  Most of me learning about this has been from personal experience and other trans girls on Tumblr, a few of the trans girl blogs i follow have been nuked this year by Tumblr staff and only one of them posted nudes.

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