charteredlibertine:

moodybidoof:

I think what pisses me off most is how the whole Staff update is presented like, “Oh we love you so much! We want to keep our darling users safe and removing all the porn will allow for freer speech. uwu” when really this is obviously just the laziest, cheapest solution to a problem that they ignored for years and years until it got them removed from the iOS app store and then suddenly it mattered

Yeah. Exactly. As I pointed out in the tags on my last reblog – tumblr’s problem isn’t actually porn, it’s fake accounts and bots.

Do you have any idea how many bots follow me that aren’t porn accounts but scam marketing accounts with taglines like “learn the secret to selling real estate!!” Yet I don’t see tumblr instituting a ban on real estate content.

Tbh I wish I could leave tumblr, because there are so many aspects about this site’s infrastructure and management and culture that I can’t stand, but there’s no other platform that lets me do the few specific things I do on here. And yeah, I can curate my experience well enough that it’s mostly fine for me personally, but shit like this still gets under my skin.

On the other hand, I doubt it’s even possible for tumblr to actually fix the bot problem, given how badly coded the site is and how limited their ability must be to make big changes on the backend. They’d probably have to trash the site and start over from scratch.