i worry that wider tumblr is gonna do that thing where a joke gets divorced from its context
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CEO of this website can casually drop the fact that he had at least one content moderator on payroll who was accepting bribes to take down blogs on request
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yeah your honor she threatened to drop a steinway piano on top of me with a cartoonish slide whistle sound effect
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Predestrogen's alt and mention of other account being deleted (teh alt is deleted now as well)
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Tumblr (or specifically Automattic) settled with the NYCCHR regarding Tumblr’s terribly implemented porn ban targeting LGBTQ folk more than it should. (posted February 20th 2024)
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![tinystepsforward Follow matt is supposed to be on f------ sabbatical rn. the last time he refused to log off and caused problems swinging his d--- around was on the wordpress.org twitter hawking a fundraiser for his birthday and claiming that as founder he didn't need to get permission fr marketing or otherwise worry about not offending people. this time he promised everyone at automattic he'd actually take a break (and become a chess grandmaster in 3 months, which, whatever, dumb techbro ego bs). instead he logged back in almost immediately, berated one of the apps teams publicly, refused to log off, then did a bunch of blog posts and interviews saying s--- ranging from "Capitalism is, as Nicholas Stern says, the best way to take care of people we don't know." through "essentially [queer or Black groups are] tribes or identities that separate us. And so part of me really identifies with Martin Luther King being, I want my children judged on the content of their character, not the color of their skin." i am, thank f------ everything, no longer working for him, and yet. i quit before leadership could force my lead to fire me. a disproportionate amount of queer people have been fired or forced to leave in the last year, bc he has personally been sending messages pressuring all leads to pick a "weak link" and going on about culture fit in ways that are f------ loaded. and then there's the exodus of ex- leads who have been saying clearly that they quit instead of being forced to fire people, and the whole team of quality engineers that was axed late last year (oh but it's not a layoff, they all magically had bad performance despite great individual performance reviews, one of them being on parental leave, and all of them being blindsided), and so on and so on... honestly it f------ sucks bc for a long time i was able to say, despite matt personally being behind half the bad ideas that have plagued tumblr in the last few years, that i think automattic was still doing a better job than most other companies who could afford to take on a liability like tumblr would do. and i thought that about wordpress.com too, and kept recommending it bc automattic's ethics were at least marginally better than most companies in the same space not built on open source. there were people i knew who were working on the transmisogynist moderation issue, but [gestures] decisionmakers have decided they're selling tumblr data (including private data!) to midjourney instead of doing anything but doubling down i guess.now that matt's weighed in it's not gonna get better. the queer staff remaining have used what leverage they had in every way possible and stopped being listened to a long time ago. support staff are paid far too little for what they deal with. i get messages from my ex-colleagues regularly because they're all trying desperately to jump ship. anyway usually i think people are misguided in putting the blame for corporate decisions directly at the feet of the figurehead ceo but in this case he is genuinely detested and keeps personally making the worst decisions and doubling down on them autolenaphilia Follow I want everyone to know that after looking at matt's non-tumblr blog the birthday fundraiser debacle apparently happened this january and he started his sabbatical at the beginning of february. And now he is doing this. Dude is spiraling.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/002/760/579/dac.png "usually i think people are misguided in putting the blame for corporate decisions directly at the feet of the figurehead ceo but in this case he is genuinely detested")
