Remember Tumblr, the platform owned by Verizon that I left? I left because of Verizon’s policies, of placing their corporate agenda ahead of the users. I went to NewTumbl instead—a site that Tumblr users might not know about, since Verizon has ensured that searches for its competitor come up empty. I was […]
Read More… from Verizon’s continued hypocrisy borne of pettiness
How quickly an opinion can change. I have been on Tumblr for 12 years, signing up in 2007, with my first post in January 2008. For most of that time I have sung its praises, saying it was one of the good guys in amongst all the Big Tech platforms (Google, Facebook) that […]
Read More… from Tumblr is now where Verizon’s corporate agenda rule
Postscripts: click here to read why I’m considering ceasing to post on NewTumbl, in November 2020. Click here to read about NewTumbl’s encouraging response in December 2020. And, just over a week later, how the site really has become too puritanical for its own good. Tumblr is dead, long live NewTumbl. I […]