![]() ![]() ![]() Automattic, the parent company of Tumblr and is buying Pocket Casts. "We will explore building deep integrations with and Pocket Casts, making it easier to distribute and listen to podcasts." Pocket Casts launched in 2010 and sold to NPR and a group of other public media groups eight years later. Pocket Casts is a podcast app and was owned by a public media group. (When Starbucks started selling alcohol at select stores, some investors were forced to sell their stock.It's been well-received, particularly from sites like The Verge, because it's available across platforms. Most traditional investors won’t fund primarily adult businesses, and may not even be allowed to by their LP agreements. In addition to a company primarily serving adult content not having access to normal financial services and being blocked by app stores, they also need specialized service providers – for example, for their bandwidth and network connections. Porn requires different service providers up and down the stack.Tumblr has no way to go back and identify the featured persons or the legality of every piece of adult content that was shared on the platform and taken down in 2018, nor does it have the resources or expertise to do that for new uploads. Non-consensual sharing has grown exponentially and has been a huge problem on dedicated porn sites like Pornhub – 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. The rise of smartphones also means that everyone has a camera that can capture pictures and video at any time. There are lots of new rules around verifying consent and age in adult content.Maybe Twitter gets blocked by Apple sometimes too but can’t talk about it because they’re a public company and it would scare investors. 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 “only” 102 million monthly visitors. Aside: Why do Twitter and Reddit get away with tons of super hardcore content? Ask Apple, because I don’t know. No one in the App Store has any effective power, even multi-hundred-billion companies like Facebook/Meta can be devastated when Apple changes its policies. If you want apps to allow more adult content, please lobby Apple. If Apple permanently banned Tumblr from the App Store, we’d probably have to shut the service down. Previous decisions on what’s allowed can be reversed any time you submit an app update, which we do several times a month. Apple has its own rules for what’s allowed in their App Store, and the interpretation of those rules can vary depending on who is reviewing your app on any given day. Today 40% of our signups and 85% of our page views come from people on mobile apps, not on the web. Originally, the iPhone didn’t have an App Store, and the speed of connectivity and quality of the screen meant that people didn’t use their smartphone very much and mostly interacted with Tumblr on the web, using desktop and laptop computers (really). Tumblr started in 2007, the same year the iPhone was released. App stores, particularly Apple’s, are anti-porn.If we lost the ability to process credit cards, it wouldn’t just threaten Tumblr, but also the 2,000+ people in 97 countries that work at Automattic across all our products. The vast majority of Automattic’s revenue comes from people buying our services and auto-renewing on credit cards, including the ads-free browsing upgrade that Tumblr recently launched. Whatever crypto-utopia might come in the coming decades, today if you are blocked from banks, credit card processing, and financial services, you’re blocked from the modern economy. You’ve probably heard how Pornhub can’t accept credit cards anymore. I am personally extremely libertarian in terms of what consenting adults should be able to share, and I agree with “go nuts, show nuts” in principle, but the casually porn-friendly era of the early internet is currently impossible. That said, no modern internet service in 2022 can have the rules that Tumblr did in 2007. ![]()
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