Tumblr.
Tumblr.
It's still here. HERE. On Tumblr.
TUMBLR!
Dude.
He then proceeds to say a bunch of old man things about how all this is the fault of "the economic downturn" and "the growth of AI," because when you're a tech writer you can't blame anything on actual stupid dickheads like Elon Musk or simple greed without risking invites to cool Silicon Valley brunches.
...I mean, he's not WRONG, but he's leaving out key factors, I think.
He is also apparently only interested in direct alternatives to Reddit and Twitter, and therein lies the rub: another old white man is grumpy because Reddit and Twitter are collapsing. That is all this is about.
Social media is changing, and probably not in any fun ways for most of us. But it isn't dead.
At least, not right now, unless you favor platforms run for and by toxic WASP men who never EVER had a plan to actually make any of these things even remotely profitable.
Tumblr may always be barely scraping by, but at least it is scraping by. Sorry it isn't Reddit enough for your Twitter Club.
Twitter’s dying, Reddit’s changing, everything else is entertainment – and there’s nowhere left to hang out.
