Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users' data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.

this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had already been swirling that this would occur, but this just cements that they were correct

  • petrescatraian@libranet.de
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    9 months ago

    @alyaza Freaking hell, is there any more mainstream social media platform left that does not and does not plan to sell your data to an AI already?!? *sigh*

  • max@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    is there a real fediverse alternative to tumblr yet? i did hear that tumblr was working on activitypub support… but this shows the opposite intentions :<

    • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.net
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      9 months ago

      That is not opposite, they just want to pull in data from the fediverse automatically so that they can sell it too.

      We need some explicit licensing of our public fediverse data otherwise it will just be used to sell it back to us.

      • tree@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Yeah I’ve seen almost no movement against Tumblr while everyone got very riled up about Meta federation ie fedipact, probably a blindspot bc users have positive associations with tumblr, but it’s still an ad/data company all the same.

    • petrescatraian@libranet.de
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      9 months ago

      @alyaza @kittykittycatboys Friendica, to some degree. It’s pretty flexible, and you can have something like a basic blog. You do depend on the server admin to install the themes that you need, if they’re not present. Once they’re installed, you can switch between them at will.

      There is even a Tumblr add-on if there’s anyone you need to follow there.

      • max@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        9 months ago

        hmm ill take a look, though idk it sounds a bit like a facebook clone and thats not what im looking for, but thanks for ur help !! :3

        • petrescatraian@libranet.de
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          9 months ago

          @kittykittycatboys Friendica is more like Facebook FWIW, indeed, but it pretty much wants to have all the tools required for a long-form posting social network 😁

          You can format your posts, you can add a title to them if you want, supports various media inline etc.