• meldroc@kbin.social
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    Not just the porn subs. A bunch of the weed subs got banned, and the rest got NSFW’d because Mormon Spez wants Reddit as G-rated as Disneyland for the IPO. Why if anyone saw a weed post, it’d make an investor wet their magic underwear!

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      Of course he does, because they can’t advertise/monetize NSFW subs.

      Which is why when they were forced to come back some subs flagged themselves as NSFW.

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    Isn’t Tumblr just a shadow of it’s former self because Verizon bought it and killed the NSFW accounts?

    Checking Wikipedia, yeah, Yahoo owned it. Verizon bought Yahoo.

    ~ Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion in 2013
    ~ Verizon bought Yahoo (which was big and bloated) for $4.83 billion (including Tumblr) in 2017.
    ~ Automattic (the guys that own Wordpress) bought Tumblr for less than $3 million from Verizon in 2019.

    We don’t quite have enough information to make this a cautionary tale, but it sure smacks of being a cautionary tale.

    Edit: Fixed formatting