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Comment by alfithehermutt | Hacker News Reader

I would too tumblr's day has passed. Marissa made a huge mistake betting on tumblr.

The pornography and toxic community killed what could have been a strong twitter microblog service.

It was fairly soon after she started as CEO, wasn’t it? Possibly before she fully internalized Yahoo’s uncanny ability to make everything it buys just slowly become irrelevant.

On the plus side, Yahoo probably does now have the world’s largest collection of meticulously catalogued porn.

I get the pornography part, whenever you are checking a simple site it can happen that there is NSFW stuff visible without a warning.

However, toxic community? I never had that impression. That said I never used Tumblr for longer periods and I don't get how to comment on stuff or really interact there.

Can't speak for OP but Tumblr has a pretty big SJW subculture; screenshots from more esoteric or radical discussions get some ridicule on reddit and elsewhere. Check (the equally toxic) subreddit tumblrinaction for a sample of this type of content. I can't tell you how representative that is of the whole site though as I am also not a tumblr user.

I'd like to point out that you're referencing hand picked, extreme examples of a community. There's a massive bias. You have no way of knowing what Tumblr is like based on these examples.

From my experience, TIA is rather representative once you remove the various art blogs and their reblogs.

As I've stated in another comment, several creators I enjoy have been massively bullied by wider communities on Tumblr until they left.

Tumblr has an indeed very toxic community at times.

Several creators of fanart I enjoy have been bullied of the platform, even receiving death threats if they don't leave for minor incidents or one time even a completely made up reason.

There are still some creators there but I do hope they move to better places in time.

the pornography (much like on twitter) was definitely one of the major selling points of tumblr. It was a rare social media site that allowed NSFW materials.

It's great for pornography though.

I love how Kyle Kingsbury is bold enough to link out to his own S&M tumblr on his professional website[0]. If only more people were that bold...

[0] https://aphyr.com/about

I'm personally very glad more people aren't that bold. Not at all interested in seeing people I interact with professionally naked or engaged in sex games. Just not the place for it from my perspective.

It tells me that he is free and doesn't have to give a ____. Most people are so worried about "What if my employer sees this?" or "What if my customers see this?" that most boards are choked with throwaway accounts.

I wish more people were as free as Kyle.

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