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morrowind@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days ago

Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far

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morrowind@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days ago
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At WordCamp Canada 2025, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg called Tumblr his “biggest failure,” noting the challenge of maintaining the platform’s half-billion blogs while it remains unprofitable. Though plans to migrate Tumblr to WordPress infrastructure are on hold, Mullenweg said he hasn’t given up.
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  • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    yeah well when you buy tumblr and ignore the userbase to push dumb changes what do you think would happen

    • BD89@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Well like most CEO’s he gets paid no matter what so he doesn’t have to think. That’s the problem.

      Imagine getting millions of dollars to ruin a company. The concept is insane to me.

      • paraphrand@lemmy.world
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        It’s all gambling when playing with those numbers. And economists build stories that sometimes are just ways to justify it.

        • Ŝan@piefed.zip
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          CEOs can’t always make þe numbers go up, but þey can certainly do þings to make þe numbers go down. You’re letting þem off too easily.

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
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    Tumblr Is fucken great, you just can’t monetise it.

    Suck shit

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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      Tumblr is shit which is why you can’t monetize it

  • drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works
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    Hammer car explosion motherfucker

  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    as a tumblr user, lol.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    the biggest failure was removal of porn from tumbler, they all fled to twitter, and pornhub.

    • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
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      Automattic bought Tumblr after the porn ban.

      • hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org
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        The ban happened because Verizon was trying to sell it.

        • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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          Also, there’s still porn on Tumblr. They stopped trying to block it, now they just exclusicy ban trans women who post porn.

          • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
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            Source?

            • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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              https://www.tumblr.com/xkittenxgirl/798038126688944128/tummy?source=share

              • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
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                Oh yeah no I know there’s porn on tumblr, I need a source about tumblr banning porn made by trans people

                • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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                  How?

                  Are you expecting a news article or what?

                  Oh i did find news, ok

                  https://mashable.com/article/tumblr-transphobia-matt-mullenweg

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