I guess this is a thing

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
discoursedrome
discoursedrome

tumblr profitability discourse spiralling into weird places tbh. let's recentre:

  • It's a pure burn rate problem based on how prohibitively expensive it is to run a social network. It doesn't have to do with debt or having taken too much VC money or any of the normal stuff, this company is almost 20 years old and the current owner bought it at fire-sale prices.
  • Making Tumblr a premium advertising destination is probably a necessary step to making it profitable to run, simply because you can't make a subscription-only social network and ad revenue scales with use in a way that other revenue streams do not.
  • Nonetheless, other revenue streams are very helpful, and it's worth chipping in to them in the principle of "I get a lot of value out of the site and want to support it" or "I wanted them to have a little walkin'-around money", if that's your vibe.
  • Don't do this if you'll feel cheated if the site folds anyway, or if you expect the site to treat you substantially better in exchange, because that's not how it works! you're just throwing a bit of your own money in the hole in solidarity with the larger throwing-money-in-a-hole project.
  • And you can mention that you're paying and explain why but for heaven's sake don't try to peer pressure other people into paying for the site, frame not paying as shameful, or imply that paying will save the site, that stuff is embarrassing. It's unlikely to be pivotal one way or another, and it will always be a tiny minority of users who pay for the site: social media needs the network effects of a big mass of free users, and "everything is free—but watch out" has been the fundamental business model of the internet basically since it went mainstream.
jambeast
vriskakinnieaynrand

women are unthinking machines for producing babies and belong to men. men are unfeeling machines for producing shareholder value and belong to society. society is a machine for producing more society. now, split up into two teams. the first team will argue that this is Misandry, and the other team will argue that this is Misogyny. you can find the point system you will be scored by on page 186 of your handout

discoursedrome
zoobus

It is kind of odd the response to redditors (allegedly) migrating over has been largely apathetic to largely positive in comparison to twitter when reddit is the one with a history of communities based entirely on harassing this very website.

That's not to say we should be more hostile to them - reddit segregates its communities more than any other social media site, making it kind of petty to assume they've gotta be ex-TiA and FPH members - it's just weird that we aren't.

It's bizarre that the worst most have had to say is eww what if they're atheist fedoralords? I know we didn't mature out of holding unfair grudges and it wasn't *that* long ago, not when people still reference gamergate

discoursedrome

it is weird, because I don't feel like anything about the site's perception of reddit or the jungian archetypal "redditor" has changed. my theory about what happened here is that the collective tumblr subconscious tends to be positive by default to people migrating here from other sites, because it feels validating, but with twitter specifically it has a complex because it thinks of twitter as somewhere between the usurper, the successful sibling parents compare you to disapprovingly, and the wario to our mario, and so twitter did not benefit from this honeymoon period

this is all somewhat conjectural though, I've seen so few users of either type that I don't really have a handle on how they interact with the site. it is possible that the reddit refugees disproportionately came from the most tumblr-compatible subreddit cultures, since it has more of an archipelago arrangement.

catchaspark
karcatgirl-vantas

the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

skluug

this is what ancient greek philosophy is like

txttletale
yaoist

i cannot possibly overstate the psychological damage of growing up being abused in a way that is considered so disgusting as to be literally unspeakable and treated as such.

yaoist

every single person on this website and everywhere else needs to take a long fucking look at how they talk about and think about csa and how it might fucking feel to have things that literally happened to you be considered so taboo that frank depictions are declared obscene or so disgusting so as to be talked about only in whispered tones

yaoist

CAN YOU EVEN BEGIN TO CONCEPTUALIZE THE MULTIPLICATION OF TRAUMA THAT COMES FROM YOUR ABUSE BEING TREATED LIKE RADIOACTIVE WASTE THAT MUST BE BURIED LEST IT CONTAMINATE OTHERS BY ITS VERY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT DESCRIPTION OR EXISTENCE