I spend a lot more time on it since I am an instance admin. (not on this account or instance though)

I installed it, looked around, and deleted it.

It feels quite strange reading this as a Jewish person.

I’m staying here to be honest.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tumblr-shoots-for-a-comeback-with-users-and-advertisers-11670620304 It’s hard to fully encapsulate just how hostile people were to advertisers there, but this kinda gives a glimpse of it. This quote in the article stands out specifically though as giving a bit of insight.

“Tumblr has always been a notoriously challenging place for brands to break into,” Ms. Littleton said. "

They could just host it offshore then and if it comes to it people who truly wanted to access it could just use a VPN. They’d be shooting themselves in the foot by causing awareness of the public about it as well. It’s really hard for a government to “ban” an app or service online unless they’d plan on setting up great firewall-esque system, and not only is that extremely expensive but its very imperfect and glitchy due to the nature of the internet as a whole. I know even then people say “oh they’ll just ban vpns then” it goes back to the same thing above. Like, they can make it kind of harder to access but they aren’t fully “banning” it no matter how hard they try to and I think the general population here would fully be capable of finding ways around such restrictions.

It was a mixture of both last I heard, but I could be very wrong.

Like what they’ve been doing with tiktok? I’m unsure what spin they could try to make to convince it to be banned. That lemmy is made by the commie far left??? If they tried to do so they’d just bring more users out curiosity anyway. Zoomers have a penchant for doing the exact opposite of what right wing law makers tell them to out of pure spite, it’s kinda funny.

One of the very few lessons we should probably take from tumblrs playbook but making the platform so actively hostile to corporations by dunking on them and memeing them so hard that the mere mention of lemmy sends shivers down their CEOs spines. The advertising value of tumblr post buyout literally dropped to around 1% of its worth due to the active hostility within the community to any corporate interactions.

Also what ground would they have on a lawsuit? It’s federation based, if they sue one instance to it shutting down another can just pop up.

There’s more than a few that have just been mass defederated by most instances

I kind of gave up trying to convince my family that this isn’t healthy, especially my high risk family members. I don’t get why they just don’t seem to care, especially the ones with major health problems.