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A lot of people will blame Yahoo for Tumblr's demise, but Tumblr's product just did not do enough to keep up in the mobile era. They were soundly out-competed for attention by Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, and Facebook.

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If you think the demise of tumblr is about anything other than FOSTA, we must be experiencing different parts of the internet.

Did you use Tumblr? It was the home of my personal blog, and I also used the mobile app.

It was a poor experience lacking in engagement. Using Instagram and Reddit was much more fulfilling in creative and online social/community needs.

Tumblr's numbers were flat lining before they removed porn. I know this because my friend was a Tumblr engineer and would share data from their all hands meetings.

Tumblr peaked (in google searches) in mid-2013: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=t.... Peak Alexa rank was at #23 in August 2013 according to this: http://tumblr.com.alexarankdb.com/

FOSTA became law in April 2018.

So please explain to us how FOSTA was responsible for Tumblr's demise.

I was a heavy Tumblr user until I discovered Reddit around then, which made it easier to find the same type of content with more consistency.

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