Q&A with Matt Mullenweg on licensing deals with AI companies, putting Tumblr's backend migration to WordPress “on hold”, fediverse, content moderation, and more
In honor of Automattic's 20th anniversary, and also since it's been a few years … Bluesky: Nilay Patel / @reckless : Lots and lots from Matt Mullenweg on Decoder, including some deep discussion of the...
Tumblr says it has seen a 222.99% growth in communities and a 349.55% growth in users since the X ban in Brazil, with DAUs up 30% from the 110K prior to the ban
Automattic (via Sarah Perez, Slashdot): — Since Automattic acquired …
Facebook, Instagram, Craigslist, Tumblr, the NYT, the FT, The Atlantic, Vox Media, USA Today, Condé Nast, and more block Apple's Applebot-Extended AI crawler
This summer, Apple gave websites more control over whether the company could train its AI models on their data.
Automattic plans to shift Tumblr's backend to WordPress in a bid to make sharing work across the platforms easier, after acquiring Tumblr for $3M in August 2019
Tumblr is making the move to WordPress. After its 2019 acquisition by WordPress.com parent company Automattic in a $3 million fire sale …
X plans to soon filter all NSFW content in Communities by default and says admins can set an “Adult Content” label to avoid their content getting auto-filtered
It was Musk's intent, make X into a platform that props up his businesses, RW ideology … Bluesky: @mistersheridandj.bsky.social : Elon is *just* smart enough not to do a Tumblr. [embedded post] Emil ...
A researcher finds that X is testing a feature that lets users create or join communities focused on “adult content” or other “not safe for work” material
It was Musk's intent, make X into a platform that props up his businesses, RW ideology … Bluesky: Harle / @quinzel.bsky.social : What is EM up to now maybe getting rid of the constant porn bots that p...
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tells a reporter, who is looking into his Hawaii land acquisition, that he knows where she is staying and her personal details
Oglala Lakota and of Irish descent| IndigeQueer. Shannon Thaler / New York Post : Salesforce's billionaire CEO Marc Benioff is quietly buying up vast tracts of real estate in Hawaii Bluesky: @scotian...
Docs: Tumblr staff compiled users' data in preparation for deals where parent company Automattic would sell the data to OpenAI and Midjourney to train AI tools
Tumblr and WordPress.com are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge …
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg sparred with a trans Tumblr user over an account ban, revealing her side blog names, which are private, sparking community outcry
I wanna emphasise prev tags and ramble cuz it hits the nail on the head exactly. Exactly!! elerium on Tumblr : moscovium enthusiast — it almost goes without saying but for posterity's sake i want p...
Tumblr plans to sunset Post+, launched in 2021 to let creators charge users a subscription to access content, in January 2024
I believe #Automattic could make a small fortune if they charged users for activating #ActivityPub (at least in the beginning). … Forums: Beehaw : Tumblr sheds Post Plus subscriptions as the platform ...