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A reminder in the age of the Fediverse: if you're not the customer, you're still the product.
(slrpnk.net)
OP was taking about Tumblr, but I think it applies even more to the Fediverse: users need to develop an ethos of paying to support the sites they use. Otherwise advertisers pay the bills and call the shots.
I didn’t mind my data being used to get free high quality products. Then they started selling it to governments. It’s one thing for an advertiser to know I’m a woman in tech. It’s another thing for a government to know when you’re ovulating so as to enforce abortion bans