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submitted 4 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had already been swirling that this would occur, but this just cements that they were correct

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[-] inlandempire@jlai.lu 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

How does tumblr keep jumping into bad decisions lmao

[-] Diotima@kbin.social 32 points 4 months ago

I mean, they let themselves get bought by Yahoo and they banned erotic art. Its like they want to fail.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 11 points 4 months ago

Then they got bought automattic, the owners of wordpress.com

[-] Diotima@kbin.social 3 points 4 months ago

Yes, I recall when they had a policy of never allowing account deletion.

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