Notices by javi@goblin.band

Every time there is some scare about Tumblr closing down, a sizeable part of the Tumblr community discusses how seriously about if there is a way to make Tumblr user-owned, or make it something similar to how Archive Of Our Own is owned by a non-profit funded by its own community.

Then a bunch of us over there try to explain that AO3 model doesn't work for Tumblr because the volume of both users (Tumblr userbase is one order of magnitude bigger than AO3's) and the kind of media (one single tumblr post with a particularly large gifset may be bigger than an entire year of new fics in AO3. And that a Kickstarter to buy Tumblr collectively wouldn't work because the problem is not the price you could buy it for, but the monthly costs of keeping it running: you can expect to kickstart hundreds of thousands of dollars every month, forever.

What people don't realize is that what they want, a user-owned, user-managed, non-profit, trans-friendly, anti-capitalist Tumblr is just within easy reach if they just accept: dropping the trademarked name, and giving up on keeping the Tumblr archive.

If you really would pay for a user-owned Tumblr, you can do it already. Get a web server and install Wafrn or Goblin. Install Misskey or any of its variants. Hell, install mastodon and set the post character limit to 10k. Invite all your Tumblr mutuals. Connect with the servers of other Tumblr users jumping to their own servers. If you don't have the technical skills to manage your own server, throw some coins to those who do to help them to pay for a server. If you can't afford spare the coins, move your content to one of those servers so more people are more easily convinced to do the jump.

Once there is a critical mass of Tumblr users moving to user-owned, federated servers, then Tumblr users, in practice, would have migrated the tumblr community to a version of Tumblr that is just what we all have wanted for years.

We can do this, the pieces are an in place. We just need the collective will.

(This post have been written in goblin.band, my own Goblin server, and auto imported to tumblr. Most of my posts on Tumblr are actually written in Goblin since a year ago)

It looks like today is going to be a night of checking up with my friends to see which ones of them are now unemployed... Tumblr seems to have been hit hard

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I've just seen this meme in linkedin (oh my god what the fuck I was doing there) and at first I was just "ok, bullshit, whatever" and then I realized:

All the examples used as "chads" are pretty generic but one. We know who wrote the "mission critical code to moon landing", and SHE DIDN'T EXACTLY LOOK LIKE A CHAD.

w..why do you suddenly talk like this?

Good girl :*

Wanna bet??

Fuck off my replies too, nazi

Perfect! Get the fuck off our lawn then

"The US taxpayer has been subsidicing the defense of europe"

Look at me in the eyes. Look at me while I say this:

Bollocks.

BOLLOCKS.

BO.

LLOCKS.



The US 'defense' of Europe is carried out by around 65k US soldiers based in a couple of dozen US military bases in EU territory. The combined armies from the EU countries (and this is not even counting non-EU european countries, like the UK or Norway) have something between 1.5 and 2 million active troops. It doesn't feel those 65k USians are the ultimate line of defense of Europe.

Do you know for whom those soldiers and military bases are crucial, instead? For THE FUCKING US OF AMERICA.

Because, hear me out, WITHOUT EUROPEAN BASES THE US CAN'T PROJECT POWER INTO THE MIDDLE EAST NOR NORTH AFRICA. Yeah, sure, a carrier group is very impressive and the ultimate modern weapon yadda yadda. Good luck sending it to them to the persian gulf straight from the US East Coast. And even better luck trying to supply them without airbases in Europe. Ane even better than better luck putting troops on the groups anywhere in the old world without those bases.

Without their European military bases, the US is no longer a global military power. A major one? sure. But one that's MUCH more local than they have been until know, more similar to Russia or China.

So honestly, maybe it's time to get them to fuck off of our continent.

you may have read that Trump Gov has instructed its embassies across the world to send a letter to their providers giving them 5 days to certify they don't have any kind of DEI program in place or drop it if they want to keep being providers of the US embassy.

Now the fun part: Since last year, every company over 50 employees in Spain has to have a defined gender equity plan if they want to do business with the spanish public sector. Which I suspect is a MUCH bigger deal than keep being a provider for the US embassy.

Looking forward for the US embassy in Madrid running out of running water or electricity next week <3

Ok this may be the post that ends making me a paid supporter of 404 media

Let's say it again: the EU should pressure its members to grant asylum to trans people from countries with anti-trans legislation

My favorite bug I've ever produced was when I changed something about how Tumblr shortcuts worked and made it so if you used the reblog shortcut while browsing your timeline, it would repeatedly reblog things several times per second if you kept the key pressed.

We should have left the reblog railgun as a feature.

Ban 👏 threads 👏 from 👏 the 👏 fedi 👏 now

holy fuck. Zuck finally went full Elon in public.

Full text of

his threads' thread:

zuck: It's time to get back to our roots around free expression and giving people voice on our platforms. Here's what we're going to do:

1/ Replace fact-checkers with Community Notes, starting in the US.

2/ Simplify our content policies and remove restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are out of touch with mainstream discourse.

3/ Change how we enforce our policies to remove the vast majority of censorship mistakes by focusing our filters on tackling illegal and high-severity violations and requiring higher confidence for our filters to take action.

4/ Bring back civic content. We're getting feedback that people want to see this content again, so we'll phase it back into Facebook, Instagram and Threads while working to keep the communities friendly and positive.

5/ Move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US content review to Texas. This will help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content.

6/ Work with President Trump to push back against foreign governments going after American companies to censor more. The US has the strongest constitutional protections for free expression in the world and the best way to defend against the trend of government overreach on censorship is with the support of the US government.

It'll take time to get this all right and these are complex systems so they'll never be perfect. But this is an important step forward and I'm looking forward to this next chapter!

My guess is that would be his first choice. But with Matt being against it, I don't see it being a feasible option: WordPress core is full of hardcoded references to the centralized repo, it's hard to change that without breaking compatibility.

Also, in the comments of the post MM himself tells Joost he is free to do it, but be better calls it something else. The moment the brand changes, if some of the big hosting companies decide to go with the new brand (and after WPE they have all the incentives), WordPress can find itself being the smaller part of the fork soon.

If you don't in the WordPress ecosystem, you may not understand how HUGE this post is



https://joost.blog/wordpress-leadership/



Joost is probably the second biggest figure in the entire WP ecosystem, only after Matt M himself. He is the biggest voice from the "Enterprise WordPress" world.

This is not anymore open source contributors complaining about governance. This is the Business WordPress demanding a leadership change and suggesting it either happens or a hard fork, backed by big business, is on the way.

After today, I'm going to start judging people who are still active on Twitter much harsher.



I'm sorry folks, but at this point everyone knows what it is. Musk is Goebbels, and Twitter is his megaphone. Him purchasing the site is a not small part of the foundation of what happened today, it's not a small part of the root of the bad things that are going to happen in the next few years.



I'm not buying any excuse anymore: being active in there makes one of the main tools of the fascists more effective. I know it. You know it. If you are there, please, close your account today.

Btw, something that pisses me off about the Tumblr migration announcement is how they paint it as win for open source.

Matt, it has been FIVE years since you bought it. I've personally asked you to open source Tumblr AT LEAST THREE TIMES I CAN REMEMBER. Others have done it too. The answer always had been that it wasn't a priority, even if we told you that some parts of Tumblr (like redpop) needed a negligible amount of work to open sourced.

Such a champion of the open source you are. Of course that's what matters to you and no anything el$e.