Investors Intensify...

[unspeakablehorror]

Tumblr is continuing its vast slide downhill and I'm not sure how long I'll be able to hold out on that platform, even with a defunct blog. The Tumblr Live debacle (what is this 'snooze' nonsense?) has convinced me that no, Tumblr is not going to get better, it's just going to give its users the option to pay Tumblr for them to be exploited by it. And no, this cannot be fixed, because it is the point of venture funding and how companies like Tumblr work. It's not and never will be about the customer, even if the customer is paying for the service. This is because the company runs on debt. There are plenty of other paid services like this--for example Amazon, which is anti-customer in a lot of ways. I boycott them both because they're anti-worker and anti-customer. Amazon, like Tumblr, was also not profitable for a large portion of its history, and regularly operates by selling items for a loss. But profitability didn't make it start treating employees or customers better. Its entire business model is about pleasing the investors at the expense of everyone else. And that's how Tumblr works too.

This leaves me with a dilemma because I know a lot of the people I met on Tumblr are never leaving that site...