{"id":7349,"date":"2022-10-12T11:38:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T09:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/12\/techscape-tumblr-and-why-the-porn-friendly-era-of-the-internet-is-over\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T11:38:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T09:38:24","slug":"techscape-tumblr-and-why-the-porn-friendly-era-of-the-internet-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/12\/techscape-tumblr-and-why-the-porn-friendly-era-of-the-internet-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"TechScape: Tumblr and why \u2018the porn-friendly era of the internet is over\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The microblogging site was known for its \u2018go nuts, show nuts\u2019 policy. Here\u2019s how the App Store ended Tumblr\u2019s glory days<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ablink.editorial.theguardian.com\/ss\/c\/TBl-lE0k4WbTlFRn6v-lQXxTpTslqnvUsR2ofAkC00vqkHXqakTSxrykj9mrdACFo11SPMvm9ONAti2JcHBqUgcduObToxycReEYHcTAh6nov_u_7l464yKkl5CZpPeg-CqG3ueb-8UiDZ4dOkhK_xu6BZysaGtGOA-w2_0KTqLsMBLqZrcGelEg-7T5C6DRfMSsX1Wcyrv2RlHjbzIGx0ePxMD7meIXmznkqCFxtrflV_YvxDV9cqXgzdq7c2-9qYTW0MyIMCG7p9sc7wIKCg\/3ha\/N7031ZxvS8Cv2AmB8PHP-g\/h27\/towm4HqYM1UtQe3kzAkaoAWT_zh9HyZuTvPyJCk6JeE\">Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The quirks and oddities of a social network affect the community that grows up around it. Instagram\u2019s lack of a repost feature pushed users to rely on hashtags to spread their pictures across the network, sowing the seeds of the heavily interest-based communities that still live there today. The anonymity offered by 4chan lead, perversely, to a uniformity of tone, as users conform to the zeitgeist of the site, unable to build a name for themselves as an individual. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jul\/20\/tiktoks-privacy-problem-isnt-what-you-think\">TikTok<\/a> \u2013 built by people who knew what they were doing \u2013 carefully sculpted its quirks to nudge users in its preferred direction, boosting harmless dance trends and discouraging political rants of the sort that litter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/sep\/13\/unboxing-bad-baby-evil-santa-youtube-swamped-creepy-kids-content\">competitor YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, some of the largest social networks have filed those quirks off, pushing for a homogeneity that is more accessible to all, even at the expense of what makes them unique. Twitter\u2019s strict text-only, reverse-chronological, 140-character timeline is now algorithmically curated, offering 280 characters plus a range of multimedia; Instagram posts can be reshared in Snapchat-style stories, which can also contain TikTok-style videos; TikTok pivoted towards political content and now plays a leading role in the culture wars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo modern internet service in 2022 can have the rules that Tumblr did in 2007. I am personally extremely libertarian in terms of what consenting adults should be able to share, and I agree with \u2018go nuts, show nuts\u2019 in principle, but the casually porn-friendly era of the early internet is currently impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Non-consensual sharing has grown exponentially and has been a huge problem on dedicated porn sites like Pornhub \u2013 and governments have rightly been expanding laws and regulations to make sure everyone being shown in online adult content is of legal age and has consented to the material being shared.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ask Apple, because I don\u2019t know. My guess is that Twitter and Reddit are too big for Apple to block so they decided to make an example out of Tumblr, which has \u201conly\u201d 102 million monthly visitors. Maybe Twitter gets blocked by Apple sometimes too but can\u2019t talk about it because they\u2019re a public company and it would scare investors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/oct\/12\/techscape-tumblr-porn-ban-apple-app-store\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c04ec218611a701f78210de0800d0cf59dd12ce3\/0_239_5000_3000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a6bb48abc243b44fd059194941aa34a5\" title=\"TechScape: Tumblr and why \u2018the porn-friendly era of the internet is over\u2019\" \/>The microblogging site was known for its \u2018go nuts, show nuts\u2019 policy. Here\u2019s how the App Store ended Tumblr\u2019s glory days<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here<br \/>\nThe quirks and oddities of a social network affect the community that grows up around it. Instagram\u2019s lack of a repost feature pushed users to rely on hashtags to spread their pictures across the network, sowing the seeds of the heavily interest-based communities that still live there today. The anonymity offered by 4chan lead, perversely, to a uniformity of tone, as users conform to the zeitgeist of the site, unable to build a name for themselves as an individual. TikTok \u2013 built by people who knew what they were doing \u2013 carefully sculpted its quirks to nudge users in its preferred direction, boosting harmless dance trends and discouraging political rants of the sort that litter competitor YouTube.<br \/>\nOver the years, some of the largest social networks have filed those quirks off, pushing for a homogeneity that is more accessible to all, even at the expense of what makes them unique. Twitter\u2019s strict text-only, reverse-chronological, 140-character timeline is now algorithmically curated, offering 280 characters plus a range of multimedia; Instagram posts can be reshared in Snapchat-style stories, which can also contain TikTok-style videos; TikTok pivoted towards political content and now plays a leading role in the culture wars.<br \/>\n\u201cNo modern internet service in 2022 can have the rules that Tumblr did in 2007. I am personally extremely libertarian in terms of what consenting adults should be able to share, and I agree with \u2018go nuts, show nuts\u2019 in principle, but the casually porn-friendly era of the early internet is currently impossible.\u201d<br \/>\nNon-consensual sharing has grown exponentially and has been a huge problem on dedicated porn sites like Pornhub \u2013 and governments have rightly been expanding laws and regulations to make sure everyone being shown in online adult content is of legal age and has consented to the material being shared.<br \/>\nAsk Apple, because I don\u2019t know. My guess is that Twitter and Reddit are too big for Apple to block so they decided to make an example out of Tumblr, which has \u201conly\u201d 102 million monthly visitors. Maybe Twitter gets blocked by Apple sometimes too but can\u2019t talk about it because they\u2019re a public company and it would scare investors. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The microblogging site was known for its \u2018go nuts, show nuts\u2019 policy. Here\u2019s how the App Store ended Tumblr\u2019s glory days Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here The quirks and oddities of a social network affect the community that grows up around it. Instagram\u2019s lack of a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/12\/techscape-tumblr-and-why-the-porn-friendly-era-of-the-internet-is-over\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TechScape: Tumblr and why \u2018the porn-friendly era of the internet is over\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}