this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had already been swirling that this would occur, but this just cements that they were correct
@helenslunch Heh, I beg to differ about removing, I’d sure want it removed from time to time, don’t know what they’re thinking.
Just that when I originally signed up for these services, I did it not with the intent of feeding data to a piece of software that would fundamentally influence our decisions.
But hey, tech companies gotta tech company…
You don’t have to tag me. I can see it when you reply to me.
What you want and reality are unfortunately not the same thing.
A lot of ActivityPub software that federates with Lemmy does that tag thing automatically; like Mastodon, for example.
I know they do but it makes zero sense and is really annoying. Much like character limits.
so take it up with gargron, why complain to individual users…
So that they’ll stop doing it?
@helenslunch I am not tagging you, it is automatically tagging you, sorry.
Wish they were…
In the EU, we have the right to request removal.
Until the EU enforces those laws with sufficiently large fines, it won’t matter.
The fines written in the laws are pretty huge, enough to destroy a small business, and to make large corporations invest into following them. Seems to work, with some historically large fines already applied.