Sense, Nonsense, and Not-Sense

Tumblr just pushed an update to the iOS app in which a number of functions simply don't work for iOS users. blogs flagged as explicit are no longer accessible at all. likes and reblogs from such blogs don't show up on one's activity page, a bunch more tags are unsearchable ("tony the tiger" has been hidden for potentially suggestive or explicit content, which I bet can be blamed entirely on the Tony/Grinch fandom; "anxiety" directs one to offsite mental health resources; nothing on the platform has ever been tagged "bitch", or at least not if you believe tag search), and the unsearchable tags list being user-compiled includes: a much longer list of porn keywords than previously, now including "bone"; anything with the word "cw"; a bunch of words such as "misogyny" and "transphobia" and "abuse" and "spoonie" and other words important for using Tumblr for activism and also important for using Tumblr's tag filtering; the automatically applied tag for when someone submits something to another tumblr and the latter publishes it ("submission"); and—and finding this out is when I started wondering if they were banning too-popular or too-often-filtered-out tags as well as tags they don't like—the tags a bunch of people apply to their queued or reblogged posts respectively, "queued" and "reblog".

fuck Apple.

(and since Discord and Twitter apps have not got this level of restriction on iOS, we're kind of wondering if Tumblr encouraging would-be Post+ users to sign up via Android app or desktop site—since the cut of the money going to the user would be so much smaller if Apple got its hands on that user's pie—pissed Apple off mightily)