Speaking of Tumblr...

[anghraine]

It has its flaws, which I complain about regularly (mostly because it's the only social media site where I have enough of a following to be regularly annoyed). But the succession of the CEO's transphobia, stalkery defense of said transphobia, and now Automattic selling out massive amounts of Tumblr and Wordpress user data (which wrt Tumblr allegedly includes things like unpublished asks, locked stuff, etc, much of which has already been transmitted) is incredibly fucked-up.

I know fandom at large is never going to return to journal-based platforms like Dreamwidth, especially with image hosting being necessarily limited and also fairly unwieldy and the lack of low-effort engagement stuff like likes/kudos/reblogs/etc (I think not having those functions is important to Dreamwidth culture and principles, for what it's worth—but people are used to having them). But at this point, I don't even slightly trust any other platform to do remotely right by its users and I am more disappointed than usual wrt Tumblr and Wordpress.

Comments

[the_future_modernes]

this entire AI thing is soooo intrusive and exploitative and just... its really just pointing out how copyright law doesnt really work unless you are rich and can afford lawyers.

[anghraine]

It really does feel super exploitative!

[chestnut_pod]

Truly. I've been watching this from afar, having left tumblr a good seven years ago now, and it's amazing the new and exciting old ways social media rediscovers to shoot themselves in the feet.

[anghraine]

Yup. Lots of bad decisions, for sure, but the last week kind of takes the cake. It was definitely the place where I was most likely to get conversation and other social media interactions and I mainly stuck around for that and the occasional cool gifset/art, but ... :(

[beatrice_otter]

Yeah, that's about where I'm at, too.

[anghraine]

/fistbump