#and it’s super naive to think that automattic will just keep losing money on this
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So the Tumblr roadmap thing is pissing me off, but not just because of the disrespect for their current user base. It’s pissing me off because the rent is finally due. It’s pissing me off because capitalism.
The basic problem is, in the world we currently live in, a professionally managed and maintained platform that allows its users to post whatever they want whenever they want to while still developing robust and evolving tools that allows those users to curate their experience all while not pissing off Apple and maintaining the users’ privacy requires more money than you can make selling Do You Love the Color of the Sky tumblers, rainbow check marks, and ads to vendors who don’t care if their products are advertised next to mpreg Destiel memes.
Social media platforms not named Meta decided to worry about the profitability bridge only when they came to it and not one minute sooner and…oh look, there’s a bridge and now we have figure out to cross it. And the bridge? It’s on fire.
Tumblr cannot give us what we want because what we want is not deliverable under capitalism.
#unless you sell user data social media is simply not profitable#and it’s super naive to think that automattic will just keep losing money on this#without finally cutting their losses#el problema es el capitalismo
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