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[soc_puppet]

For anyone who's missed it, Tumblr is slightly imploding again. It seems pretty serious this time, with the attempt to monetize people's accounts, and specifically Tumblr's blatant attempts to capitalize on people monetizing fannish content and then leave them out to dry in the event of a C&D. I understand that the site needs money to function, but uh. Yikes.

Anyway, long live Dreamwidth, my internet home.

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[dinoblob]

The blue social sites have not been having a good time... twitter is trying to test putting dislike buttons on comments (no way that would be abused... /s).

The tumblr thing is pretty egregious though.

[capri0mni]

What do you mean "blue social sites"?

[soc_puppet]

In this case, I'm fairly certain they mean both Tumblr and Twitter; since the background for the sites' logo/icon thing is blue, they're strongly associated with that color. Tumblr in particular is known as a "blue hellsite" by its userbase, and while I can't say I've been on Twitter long enough to notice anything similar, it wouldn't surprise me.

[capri0mni]

Ah. Okay.

For some reason, last night, my brain glitched and focused on the idiom of "Blue = Pornographic/Risque," and that didn't quite make sense.

[soc_puppet]

Yeah, I saw that; makes me grateful I'm not on Twitter very much. I created an account for the sole purpose of communicating with someone I won podfic from in a fandom fundraiser, and really haven't done more than glance at it since 😅

But yeah, the Twitter thing is bad and has lots of potential for abuse, but Tumblr's targeting of fans and fandom content producers for profit while blatantly not caring if anything happens to the users as a result? Yikes. So much yikes.