#and fix the bigoted moderation that targets and discriminates against users of color and trans users

[samuraisharkie]

fuck this site, a Zionist CEO, transmisogynistic and antiblack staff, unethical and discriminatory business practices, and predatory and underhanded moves like this one tell me this site is not worth it. let it fucking die. it’ll suck to lose a lot of the stuff that’s built up on here, but I don’t think content should be at the expense of the PEOPLE responsible for it. Also, heartily disagree with the reasoning that “opt-in” is the default. No one should automatically be assumed to consent to data scraping, and anyone that IS ok with it should be expected to go enable it instead of forcing everyone else to work around their greed. Also the insidious irresponsibility of the way this update was rolled out tells me this is not for the sake of any sort of care for the users or the site. If it was, everyone would have been notified outside of a fucking text post you may not even see. There would have been a pop up like there was for all the other shit features tumblr has rolled out in the last few years. And honestly, I’m not giving a single cent to a company that profits off of bigots to moderate their site and throws a hissy fit when it’s been caught. If they want a sustainable business model, the first step isn’t ai. It isn’t the “tumblr steals people’s ideas and sells them without compensation’ merch store. It isn’t the fucking checkmarks. It’s actually doing something about their shit spaghetti code, the bigots being allowed to throw their weight around and discriminate freely and illegally and hide it on made up bullshit like the “Russian psyop bots”, and actually take the time to make this place worthwhile for the people that matter, the ones that have BEEN here. They need to stop this “how do you do, fellow kids?” bullshit, this quirky adaptation of “hellsite” which fundementally misunderstands why people were talking about this place that way (it wasn’t positive), and get their act together. None of these little band aids are going to work until that happens, and until they do those things, they’re going straight into the trash along with all their investors.

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