“600+ person-years of effort” have not stopped the site from losing $30M a year.

  • troybot [he/him]@midwest.social
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    Just a wild guess but I’m thinking Reddit doesn’t actually host the content. It’s all links to a 3rd party like redgifs. Meanwhile Tumblr has the content stored within their own servers.

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      It hosts now. But does so very shitty and doesn’t produce following, visibility metrics that’s instrumental in nudes posting and promotion. That’s why embedding content is preffered.