Tumblr Is Launching a Livestreaming Feature

Tumblr is adding support for livestreaming via the video platform Livebox. The Verge reports: Tumblr has supported streaming in the past, but it did so by letting people share streams from other services like YouNow and YouTube. The new option is described as a native Tumblr streaming service powered by Livebox. (Livebox is operated by the Meet Group, a subsidiary of the dating app company ParshipMeet Group.) Livebox allows users to tip streamers, and by the same token, Tumblr will let you pay creators in a virtual currency called "Diamonds." Livebox provides AI- and human-powered moderation for streams, according to a press release; the service also lets streamers designate trusted viewers as moderators. The streaming service is so far only supported for people's primary Tumblr blog, not any side blogs under the same account.

The feature is being rolled out to US users on iOS and Android now, and a release for global users and the desktop site is planned for the future. More details are outlined in a blog post, which dubs the service Tumblr Live.

Naked streaming

[fermion]

Streaming is a saturated market. It might make money for tumblr. But the real money will be ads for IRL sex

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[Anonymous Coward]

No hope of that, tumblr used to have a lot of fetish blogs, but they they outright banned porn many years ago, despite now trying to walk that decision back a little.

Right, wrong, or indifferent,

[Otis B. Dilroy III]

Tumblr fucked the dog when they got out of porn.

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[John Smith 2294]

That's oddly specific.

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[thegarbz]

Yahoo didn't do anything. Verizon did. Tumblr was a porn utopia during the Yahoo days.

Twitter Spaces

[mcfatboy93]

Ha, if supreme leader Musk keeps playing with the on/off switch for spaces and other Twitter features and they structure it in a similar way this sounds like a plan.

Probably wont work, but points are given for effort.

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[JasterBobaMereel]

That the forgotten abandoned Tumblr has only a few tens of thousands less active users than Twitter ... shows how small Twitter really is