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Hey @photomatt if you think the car explosion hammers “threat” was that scary, imagine what receiving actual threats is like? Imagine receiving threats every day of being murdered or raped or other horrid things, all the while being called slurs? Would you be scared? Because that’s what trans people on this site have to deal with while you do NOTHING to help. You only step in when your fragile ego is targeted, of course.
You wouldn’t last a day in the shoes of the trans women that you nuked from this site for rightfully calling you out. These women are braver and stronger than you’ll ever be, and I bet that fucking scares you, you coward.
Bro this fuckin website will flag a trans woman’s face for being “inappropriate” and then immediately follow it up with “Stuff we think you’ll like on Tumblr TV” and the thumbnail is a pair of naked tits covered in a suspicious white substance. Porn bots run rampant but yeah, it’s definitely the trans people that are the real problem.
And no, that’s not remotely close to the content we browse. No shade to people who do but we actively dismiss all pornographic content on our dash since we don’t wanna see it and the algorithm is so fucked it thinks we still wanna see it.
Nice site you got here photomatt. Doing a great job, buddy. /s
I would’ve @‘d him but he blocked us. Coward. Fucking face the consequences of your bigotry instead of hiding.
-Kris Dreemurr (they/them)
LITERALLY THIS YES
@staff why do trans women keep getting banned when there’s pornbots EVERYWHERE on this site??
It’s fucking ridiculous. Banning random trans women is already deplorable enough but doing that while bots are running rampant posting actually explicit content just makes you look way worse. Clown ass site.
-Kris Dreemurr (they/them)
thousands upon thousands of pornbots: *exist*
tumblr staff: what? are we supposed to do something about that?
one singular transfem: *exists*
tumblr staff: we’re gonna erase you from fucking existence you swine
This is actually so so so cool. Switching the backend to wordpress sounds terrifying so maybe not that one but open sourcing stuff is always cool, and I'd love more focus on the custom domains -- the blog view on /blog/ is convenient, but I find myself never looking at whatever wacky theming people have going on, and I wish I was forced to see it more.
Also a huge wishlist impossible-to-implement idea that I would love to see is allowing more flexibility in my dash. I love having complete control and chrono dash lets me have that (please no opaque, algorithmic feed -- I don't get any use out of the For You tab unless I've fully finished my dash, and even then it's usually meh at best), but for example I wish I could bump certain blogs that post very rarely to the top of my dash when they do post (currently I use "Get Notifications" for that, but it feels a little sub-optimal). Or some way to skip reblogs I've seen in the last 24hrs without new tags or comments.
Anyways this is an awesome message and makes me super excited for the future!
Just don't lose sight of our privacy and staying at least a little bit esoteric and irrelevant :P
For Tumblr: Over the past 7 days, iOS downloads are up 58% with 30% more impressions in the App Store. Android downloads are up 57% with 50% more impressions in the Play Store.
Thank y'all for checking it out! For those new to the party, @automattic has been contributing to @WordPress for 17 years, and more recently has been trying to bring that energy to Tumblr.
The first few years of the acquisition were about putting out the fires, cleaning up spam, hate, etc, getting a good technical infrastructure in place, and we integrated the culture and verve of Tumblr in Automattic really well.
Now we're more in fun mode. Should we switch the backend to WordPress? Join the fediverse? Support Matrix / Blue Sky? We 100% want as much of Tumblr to be open source as possible.
Like we recently open sourced Pocket Casts.
Also there's so much to do in the app itself! It will be faster, more responsive, personalized, customizable. DMs. Ask. Alts. Better feed. Live. Subscriptions. Audio. Domains/Email. Easter Eggs. Tipping. Newsletters. GIFsets.
But give us time. We're a small but mighty team. Sometimes doing things in an open way takes a little longer, but as we say in Houston, slow cookin' makes good eatin'. 🤠
RED ALERT: tumblr custom blog domains are at risk of becoming a paid feature
Custom domains are one of the coolest if not the coolest feature on tumblr. I think the ability to mess with formatting and theming and do whatever the heck you want on your blog (and do that for FREE) is an absolutely incredible feature from the days of internet yore. It's such a unique way to express yourself and the ~vibes~ of your blog, not to mention such a great entrypoint into learning web basics.
Mr matt @photomatt CEO of auttomattic sir please don't do this. PLEASE. I know tumblr needs money, but please brainstorm other ideas. I fear that this will simply make this feature less used. Especially if this retroactively will delete currently existing themes, it would just be really sad to have this feature get paywalled. Or at least run a survey or a trial that you can revert if it doesn't turn out to actually make much revenue.
I also feel similarly sad about making the backend WP, but if there's a way to do that without breaking any existing themes I'd be OK with it. But if the backend becomes WP then I think it only makes sense to start charging for it, so my ask would be for you to pretty please leave it be :) Maybe build some e-commerce on that to make some revenue for tumblr and users. And then you could integrate it with mainsite more easily if it's all custom!
idk man, just please don't do this. i would feel sad :(
This is a good read, just adding that EITHER tumblr's revenue needs to grow, or the team needs to shrink. It's also mentioned that they'd like to open source tumblr, and that they'd like a 50/50 split between ad revenue and subscription based revenue (from users).
Never trust a Dvorak user, they’re all scumbags?? Scientific anomalies
there is truly nothing like waking up to learn that the CEO of this site has been posting through it and starting flame wars with individual users of his site like a whiny forum moderator from 2006. this dorkass goatee baby has a net worth of four hundred million smackeroonies and a section on his wikipedia about how he's a special boy for using a keyboard
andddd to the surprise of no one:
he is trying to cover this up. there wasn't even a reason given for the rejection. this post does NOT go against TOS or community guidelines whatsoever. i would know, i've read through them both thrice. i did, however, find this!
i have the right to display and redistribute this. this is stated in the tos. for fuck's sake, @photomatt @staff follow your own advice. here's a little reminder in case you forgot (straight from your own tos!):
you fucked around, now you're finding out. womp womp.
as you can see matt mullenweg's sabbatical is going swimmingly
now that i've spammed and am for sure getting fucking banned, i will talk about Matt and why what he did is fucking disgusting and horrendous
many transgender individuals have had safe for work selfies and other pictures of themselves taken down or flagged on account of being nsfw. this is blatant transphobia due to multiple reasons
1. tagging something related to transgender individuals as nsfw when it is clearly sfw helps to perpetuate the bigoted myth that being transgender is a fetish or kink
2. by censoring our existence you are actively preventing us from even trying to defend ourselves from bigotry or attempting to correct stereotypes or harmful misinformation
recently the incidents have crossed the boundary even farther than usual with the banning of predstrogen. she had the thing described above happen to her because it had been mass reported by terfs and other transphobic individuals. after having the photo taken down she made a joke about wishing the ceo of tumblr @photomatt (im for some reason not allowed to tag him anymore) wash in a car crash involving explosions and hammers. he took this joke seriously and decided to do 2 things
1. ban her because he couldn't take a joke amd he couldn't handle having his transphobia called out
2. threatened to call the fbi on her because he couldn't take a joke and couldn't handle being called out
now i don't know if you know this but organizations like the fbi don't particularly have a great history with minorities. so calling them is basically equivalent to Matt walking up to her and shooting her in the face. if the fbi was called it wouldn't be a raid or a peaceful capture, it would be an execution.
and now we move on to what is currently happening. multiple users have been banned for joking about the situation or discussing it and he's attempting to hide evidence of his actions while also lying about what happened. his defensive statements only make him look worse because of his lies and other reasons such as referring to pred as "it" (according to her bio pred uses she/him). this is extreme transphobia and it needs to be pointed out, called out, and discussed. if these things happen we could hopefully see Matt pay for his actions (there's a legitimate legal case against him btw just pointing that out).
anyways im going to be posting this to my cohost and tranfem social accounts because im probably getting banned and i would like what i said here to be preserved.
don't be quiet.
your voice is important in this situation
now that i've spammed and am for sure getting fucking banned, i will talk about Matt and why what he did is fucking disgusting and horrendous
many transgender individuals have had safe for work selfies and other pictures of themselves taken down or flagged on account of being nsfw. this is blatant transphobia due to multiple reasons
1. tagging something related to transgender individuals as nsfw when it is clearly sfw helps to perpetuate the bigoted myth that being transgender is a fetish or kink
2. by censoring our existence you are actively preventing us from even trying to defend ourselves from bigotry or attempting to correct stereotypes or harmful misinformation
recently the incidents have crossed the boundary even farther than usual with the banning of predstrogen. she had the thing described above happen to her because it had been mass reported by terfs and other transphobic individuals. after having the photo taken down she made a joke about wishing the ceo of tumblr @photomatt (im for some reason not allowed to tag him anymore) wash in a car crash involving explosions and hammers. he took this joke seriously and decided to do 2 things
1. ban her because he couldn't take a joke amd he couldn't handle having his transphobia called out
2. threatened to call the fbi on her because he couldn't take a joke and couldn't handle being called out
now i don't know if you know this but organizations like the fbi don't particularly have a great history with minorities. so calling them is basically equivalent to Matt walking up to her and shooting her in the face. if the fbi was called it wouldn't be a raid or a peaceful capture, it would be an execution.
and now we move on to what is currently happening. multiple users have been banned for joking about the situation or discussing it and he's attempting to hide evidence of his actions while also lying about what happened. his defensive statements only make him look worse because of his lies and other reasons such as referring to pred as "it" (according to her bio pred uses she/him). this is extreme transphobia and it needs to be pointed out, called out, and discussed. if these things happen we could hopefully see Matt pay for his actions (there's a legitimate legal case against him btw just pointing that out).
anyways im going to be posting this to my cohost and tranfem social accounts because im probably getting banned and i would like what i said here to be preserved.
don't be quiet.
your voice is important in this situation
Oh and ANOTHER few things to add to this is that he personally made a fucking SOCK PUPPET ACCOUNT. just to fucking KISS HIS OWN ASS ON HIS OWN BLOG LMFAO.
This fucking ego driven one track minded loser made a sock puppet account just to kiss his own ass I can't fucking believe the nerve of this half witted shit-for-brains it's so obvious oh and P.S. when I replied to one o his silly lil meltdown posts he went outta his way to personally block my account cause I can no longer access his account!! He is personally going out of his way to block anyone who is angry at him or criticizes him (which is pretty much trans women) and not to mention to stoop even lower than that he WENT OUT OF HIS WAY. to fuckin DM EXCLUSIVELY TRANS WOMEN AND BASICALLY FUCKIN INTERROGATE OR INTIMIDATE THEM FOR RESPONDING IN WAYS HE DOESNT LIKE to his lil pissboy meltdown posts so yeah make of that what you will the whole picture just kinda paints itself don't it
To all of my 9 singular followers I hope you all have come to realize how much of a whiny fucking bigoted loser @photomatt is and how he cares about the reputation of himself and tumblr staff more than an actual fucking human being. "Ohhh boo hoooo I'm being subjected to looney toons cartoon violence this text is a personal attack on me help me im so scawed :'''[ anyways I'm going to report you to the fbi and wipe you from the face of the earth bye bye" what a fucking hypocritical manipulative fucking PIECE OF SHIT. He is so fucking blatantly lying and making up a whole victim complex while DELIBERATELY MISCONSTRUING THE WGOLE SITUATION saying predstrogen got banned for "targeted harassment" when he fucking KNOWS that the issue was originally about "sexually explicit content" when it was literally JUST HER FUCKING FACE. LITERALLY JUST FROM NORMAL PHOTOS OF HER TRANSITION TIMELINE. She has been the target of violent transmisogynistic harassment for ages from terfs and you know it and don't take action but the moment even the slightest thing said about you and staff is even uttered you throw a fucking pissbaby tantrum and IP ban her from the god damn platform meanwhile this platform is continually being infested by fucking TERFS AND NAZIS which you said you would "condemn nazis" and "hateful behavior from anyone who 'identifies as terfs'" (yeah take that last line into account cause apparently terfs aren't implied as inherently hateful like nazis) but what are you even doing about that huh? Where is this action you said you were going to take cause I don't fucking see anything about that yet!!!! You fucking know the harm you're doing why don't you just go full fucking mask off already and cut the bullshit!!!! FUCK YOU. Photo Matt can go suck a Photo Dick. Like just suck it up paper and all and fucking choke on it and the paper momentarily pops out of his mouth and sucker punches him as he falls off a cliff oh OOPSIE!! hope I don't get banned for that one teehee
so, to sum it up into multiple words, FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU
You’re right Matt, you just need to get rid of all the trannies and then your website will finally be perfect and make you so much money. Nevermind transfems are a marginalized group with horrid violence committed against them every day. Who cares about that? It’s all about the money. Who cares if the faggots and trannies all get banned from your site? It’ll be such a stable business endeavor to get rid of 90% of your audience. Let’s see how that works out for you.
Well hot damn if it wasn't enough for this loser to throw a public tantrum now he's going out of his way to follow predestrogen on other platforms and start harassing her there!!! You can't hide these Matt I got the screenshots lol!!!!!!
HE'S BLATANTLY LYING OUT OF HIS ASS!! SPREAD IT AROUND!! And also since she seems to be from Ireland even though I don't even know shit about eu laws from what little I do know this is a big violation of GDPR and should be reported as such!! https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rights-citizens/redress/what-should-i-do-if-i-think-my-personal-data-protection-rights-havent-been-respected_en
I don't normally make "political" art like this, but after recent events I felt I had to say something
hello everyone!! this is a burner account to share this:
as photomatt deletes everything, me and a few others are trying our best to compile screenshots to spread the word of the situation. most of the screenshots in the dropbox feature a comment by one of our helpers containing context. if you have any screenshots you'd like to add, please dm me. there is a high chance this account will get banned, so please save this dropbox and the screenshots included and continue to spread the word.
thank you!!
edit: thank you to all the people sharing and reblogging this! please note that this dropbox is being constantly updated (as i type this, files are being processed) so be sure to check in frequently for updates.
edit 2: as this gets more popular, i'm getting more and more worried about the probability of getting banned. to send me screenshots, please feel free to add me on discord (@mit_skies). i'll try to keep everyone updated on there + it'll be easier for me to see and document screenshots.
trans women become the victims of hate campaigns, death threats, rape threats, endless harassment and staff does literally nothing about it and if you dare to complain about it the CEO of Tumblr misgenders you and terminates your blog. Tumblr is a site of transphobia and none of us are safe here.
Tumblr has been a home to queer people for years. It was the last place we felt safe online. If you attack trans women, you attack all of us, and if the tumblr polls are to be trusted, about 90% of your clientele will leave and never return. Pick your fucking battles Matt. Justice for predestrogen.