Untitled @acheron4 - Tumblr Blog

Verizon is leaving the engine of internet culture to sputter and die, and its communities to scramble for a new home.

The Vox article that I was interviewed for is up and running, and it contains some serious fuckign information about this whole fiasco.

Information that tumblr just straight up refused to provide to its userbase at all.

Unsurprisingly to those of us watching this website deteriorate over the last year, this full content purge and ban has been in progress for a solid 6 months. The date got moved up because of the child porn thing, but it was always coming for us.

Equally unsurprising: Tumblr’s management and ownership are absolutely destroying the actual staff working on it. The company has been hemoragghing senior staff without so much as a token attempt to keep them in place. So the drops in site quality are real, and wil probably only be getting worse.

Truly astonishing is the fact that apparently this crap was supposed to “double” the userbase by the end of next year. Boy, howdy, that’s not gonna work out well for them.

shabbytigers

good luck with your plan to sell ads targeting a user base that doesn’t exist any more, @staff.

fandomshatewomen

Then they’re def gonna let Tumblr die on the vine when it doesn’t pan out. It’ll take a few years but mark my words, this is going to work out about as well as when Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace and everybody left. Also, fuck Verizon forever.

a-trans-resource-blog

Plz lemme know if you reblog this and it disappears. I have Suspicions.

xenoqueer

I mean, there are already mutuals of mine reporting that they can’t see this post, only a “post was deleted"notice on my blog, and I’m the OP. So, whatever your suspicions are, I suppose mark them as confirmed.

trashbandikyut-deactivated20181

i’ve seen it disappear about 5 times off my dash.

dirtydaddythings

A very telling read. Seeking a new venue may well be in all our best interests with the rapid decline in ‘value’ tumblr is on the fast track to finishing it’s days fading out like myspace

a-poetic-dominant-deactivated20

Dear Tumblr,

Sincerely,

Your current/former patrons and the NSFW community.

analaddictionmasturbation

Well, that’s it for me. How poetic that Tumblr commuted it’s own suicide.

yayroos

For everyone’s information:

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th

Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad

Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion

Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)

Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.

Open the app or website (including specific blogs)

Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)

Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.

Will anyone moving to twitter pm me so i can follow you or reply to this post?

nstat1

Sorry for mass re reblogs but please understand that a lot of people didn’t know anything about what happening in Tumblr and for most of them is really hard to track where now they can follow me if they don’t wanna lose my gallery. On the main blog, I have 45k followers who still don’t know anything and only 5k switch to Twitter and other platforms. This is why I keep reblogging my self to let as many people as possible know. If you don’t wanna be “spammed” with reblogs of posts with links to alternative sites where you could follow me, then just unfollow me on TUMBLR or just ignore it. This blog is dead anyway.

PATREON : https://www.patreon.com/posts/greetings-17962716

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/Nstat34

NEWGROUNDS : https://nstat.newgrounds.com/

HENTAI-FOUNDRY : https://www.hentai-foundry.com/user/Nikisupostat

Check out Bill (@Bill86758442): https://twitter.com/Bill86758442?s=09

If you follow me and are like many of us, migrating to Twitter with tumblr's death coming soon, check me out. Even if you don't follow, give it a share so like minded people can find me.

lloydeye-deactivated20190404

Tumblr Alternatives

With the recent change in Tumblr’s policy on nudity many creators (and visitors) are looking for an alternative platform to keep on going.

I have listed alternative platforms which came to my mind and did some basic research to help you to make an educated choice.

What made tumblr attractive in the past was a unique combination of

a large user base, which both provides plenty of new content and people eager to look/like/reblog it (in other words: A large audience to the creators work)

Liberal rules on nudity

Wed and mobile application

No costs

This combination is hard to find again.

My verdicts are for now:

Ello or deviantArt for creators who wnt to share their work among other creators

Vero for people who are essentially looking for a “nsfw-Instagram”

VK.com: For the adventurous

500px: I want to post or view really good photographed breasts

Flickr: I just ant du dump all my hotos somewhere to share it by link

Artfolio, Website: I need a “business card” to share by link

I personally will focus on Ello, Vero and my own website. Let me know if you are in

Ello

Description/Claim: “The Creators Network”. Ello is a global community of artists dedicated to creative excellence. Built by artists, for artists

Type of Service: Instagramm-Like. Kinda.

Address: https://www.ello.co/

Costs: Free

Number of Users: > 1 million

Mobile Client: Available

Web Client: Available

Main Language: English

Policy on Nudity: If you regularly post adult-oriented content, otherwise deemed NSFW, please respect those in our community that do not wish to see it by flagging your profile Not Safe for Work (NSFW).

Other: Ello claims several notable distinguishing intentions as a social network: never sell user data to advertisers or third parties, never show advertisements, and not enforce a real-name policy.

Vero

Description/Claim: Vero is a social network for anyone who loves anything enough to share it – and wants control over who they share it with. Just like we do in real life.

Type of Service: Instagramm-Like

Address: https://www.vero.co/

Costs: “free for Life”

Number of Users: > 1 million

Mobile Client: Available

Web Client: Not Available

Main Language: English

Policy on Nudity: No Policy against Nudity. However, Vero has a a “Flag as inappropriate” functionality

Other: High degree of Transparency. See https://www.vero.co/vero-manifesto/

DeviantArt

Description/Claim: Bleed and Breed Art - We are where art starts, but that’s only the beginning. We are the movement for the liberation of creative expression. We believe that art is for everyone, and we’re creating the cultural context for how it is created, discovered, and shared.

Type Of Service: Deviant-Art-Like ;-).

Address: https://www.deviantart.com/

Costs: Free / Subscription Based

Number of Users: > 40 million

Mobile Client: Not Available

Web Client: Available

Main Language: English

Policy On Nudity: Liberal, details unknown

Main Language: English

Other: User Interface created in early ’90 as it seems

Vk.com

Description/Claim: VK (short for its original name VKontakte; Russian: ВКонта́кте, meaning InContact) is a Russian online social media and social networking service.

Type Of Service: Facebook-Like

Address: VK.com

Costs: Free / Advertisement based

Number of Users: > 100 million (>95% Russian)

Mobile Client: Available

Web Client: Not Available (?)

Main Language: Russian

Policy On Nudity: Liberal, details unknown

Main Language: Russian

Other: Owned by Mail.ru which has strong ties to Russian government

500px

Description/Claim: The community for passionate photographers. Join over 15 million photographers from 195 countries to discover and share incredible photos, gain global exposure, and get paid for your work and skills.

Type Of Service: Image Hosting

Address: https://500px.com/

Costs: Free and Subscription

Number of Users: 15 Million

Mobile Client: Available

Web Client: Available

Main Language: English

Policy On Nudity: [It is forbidden] To post […] any Visual Content or Communications that are libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, offensive, profane, or that infringes any copyright or other right of any person

Other: Initially Russian-owned, now Chinese. Knowing for banning users without warning or explanation

Flickr

Description/Claim: We want to help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them.

Type Of Service: Image Hosting

Address: https://www.flickr.com/

Costs: Free and Subscription

Number of Users: 15 Million

Mobile Client: Available

Web Client: Available

Main Language: English

Policy On Nudity: Liberal, But restricted in Germany (?): After further researching our available options, we decided to adjust our policy in Germany to enable pictures rated as “moderate” to be visible for our users starting today. We’ve received plenty of feedback from our members on this and hopefully this change helps address some of the desires expressed while still complying with legal requirements regarding age verification.

Used to be owned by Yahoo (former owner of Tumblr), now sold to SmugMug

Artfolio, Patreon, Own Website…

Description/Claim: Showcase your work

Type Of Service: Portfolio/Homepage

Address: …what you make of it

Costs: Subscription

Number of Users: Next to zero – unless you run some serious marketing or are very well known

Mobile Client: Not Available

Web Client: Available

Main Language: Your Choice

Policy On Nudity: Your Policy – but has to obey the law

Other: Beyond tightening provisions around hate speech and illegal content, Patreon essentially banned sex workers and adult content of a sexual nature as of October 2018.

FetLife, JoyClub

Description/Claim: Follow your Kinks

Type Of Service: Social networks, focused on Sex/fetish

Address: fetlife.com/joyclub.de

Costs: Subscription

Number of Users: > 2 Million each

Mobile Client: Not Available

Web Client: Available

Main Language: English, German

Policy On Nudity: Very relaxed

Other: Focus is not on photography but on Sex/fetish/porn

ModelMahem, PurplePort, ModelKartei

Description/Claim: Social Networks focused on Modelling/Photography

Type Of Service: Social networks, focused on Modelling/Photography

Address: modelmayhem.com, purpleport.com, model-kartei.de

Costs: Subscription

Number of Users: < 100k each

Mobile Client: Not Available

Web Client: Available

Main Language: English, German

Policy On Nudity: Liberal, No Porn though

Other:

sarascarletmodel

Very useful, thank you!

jyvesd-model-photography-deacti

Thanks very much for the info….

dirtylillkitten

Thank you 💋😈

imfernalmonitor-redone-deactiva

SIGN

tumblr.com: Allow NSFW content on Tumblr.

letmeexploreuranustoo

tumblr.com: Allow NSFW content on Tumblr.

Hopefully, you have already signed. But, if you haven’t, take a few minutes to sign this petition. As of now, there are over 392,000 supporters and I just watched 1400 sign in the last hour. The goal is 500,000. Let Tumblr @staff know that they are making the wrong decision.

letmeexploreuranustoo

Over 450,000 supporters!! Sign the petition now!

dutchh2oman

Almost there!! Just 23,000 more supporters needed to make the 500,000 goal!

letmeexploreuranustoo

RIP Tumblr, You Can Bite My ANUS!!

With sadness, my queue is full for the final time. It is set to make 50 posts per day, with the last post scheduled for 11:59 pm, 12/16/2018.

I’m not sure where I’ll go from here. I’ve set up accounts at several of the platforms that were suggested as alternatives (MeWe, Explicitr, bdsmlr, Pillowfort), but none of them feel right, or they just weren’t ready to handle so many new users at one time. If you look for me elsewhere, I’ll most likely be using my old name, @letmeexploreuranus, not @letmeexploreuranustoo.

Hopefully, the #RescuePlan that @honedperfection is promoting isn’t just a bunch of hype. Hopefully, it’s a place where we can all go and live in harmony and expose all the genitals and nipples that we want!

I’ll still be here for the next few days to post submissions and answer messages, as they come in.

After that, I hope to see you all somewhere soon!

dominantlife

My Vision Of Our Tumblr Replacement

I started on Tumblr soon after it was created with a vanilla blog. Since then, hardly a day has gone by that Tumblr wasn’t a part of my life. I have made excellent friends on Tumblr over the years. In fact, MOST of my friends came from relationships I made via Tumblr. The precious, bubbly cupcake that is in my bed? Tumblr. So you can imagine how painful Tumblr’s announcement has been for me.

I love seeing the marginalized communities that are shunned elsewhere on Planet Earth have a safe place to exist and be themselves. It always made me smile when I see a Tumblr blogger ease out of their shells, steadfastly into the world.

Well, that shit is no more.

As some of you may have noticed I started a community effort to rescue these communities. I want everyone involved because it will be our garden, our club, our safe space to be ourselves.

And the new site (name to be withheld until we have something to show) is not just for kinksters, I want vanillas too; artists, witches, horror writers, brewmeisters, budtenders, book sluts, fandoms of all types, beat poets, wilderness photographers, Burners, vampire hunters, Dungeons and Dragons players, and rocket scientists. Hell, I want people who just want to blog about cats and cabins in the woods.

What we won’t tolerate are bullies, minors, Nazis (and their fucked up allies), abusers or trolls. They can fuck right off to a cesspool of their choice.

I am putting up the cash to get this started PLUS I am making this a community effort, that is why I am being so transparent about the process with our Discord planning group. Yes, it is chaos. We have taken on an INSANE project to get done in less than 2 weeks. Well, 9 days now.

This isn’t my first rodeo. I am actively trying to keep my anonymity as long as I can, but I know it will soon be spugged out in due order soon. You will then see what I have done in the past and learn about a very vanilla project that has been near and dear to my heart. You have probably heard of it and maybe even participated!

The beta site will not be perfect. It will be good but not perfect. Hell, we have been suffering with “far from perfect” with Tumblr now for years. It is my hope that our community can put up with our rough edges for a little while.

Where we are tonight is pretty good. We have selected a host, got our software loaded, installed the Linux packages required and are now getting those packages to play nice with one another. We had it working for a bit until a small issue with the registration page required some elbow work.

I am working on the branding and marketing with a bunch of really smart pervs in our Discord group. I am really proud of all of our volunteers and want to thank them all.

If you want to volunteer or simply eat popcorn and watch the porn riots, please use this invite link: https://discord.gg/jVempgb

Remember, Discord is just the site we are using for planning, not the actual site we are moving to.

Many of you have asked about the Library For Kinksters, it will be archived and placed on the now site.

We plan to allow you to import your Tumblr blog over to our new site but Tumblr may have other ideas. Other services have been using Tumblr’s API for exporting and now Tumblr now seems to be shutting down that API functionality.

That is all for now. Keep your heads held high and remember you are ALL FUCKING AMAZING PEOPLE!

- Dominant Life

P.S. Please reblog the shit out of this. Santa may drop a slutty elf off at your house for Christmas!

P.P.S. Oh and pirates. I really want pirates on the site too!

ilovedarkanus

My xgirlfriend says that……………………

bigbabybellies-deactivated20190

As many of you know, tumblr is banning all adult content. Before this blog is permanently removed, I wanted to say thank you and goodbye to the 10,000 followers who have shared with me over the years. It has been great to see how many people share our natural love of breeding and pregnancy, as sex was intended to be for. Well wishes to you all and good luck. - Jack

honedperfection

December 17th - a rescue plan

Some good news, I’ve been talking to two developers now and got them working together, we just had a meeting with the guys behind an existing large (millions of users) site similar to Tumblr, with a vibrant and open-minded community, and more importantly, it has open-minded owners who believe in free speech. They think we can get something done here to rescue the whole community.

I’m not allowed to reveal the site name yet. I can tell you it’s mainstream, open to everyone, open-minded and welcoming. (It’s not WordPress or any site owned by Facebook or Twitter. It’s not Pillowfort, that’s in closed beta. It’s not Ello, that’s mainly for artists. It’s not kinkspace or fetlife, those are too specialist. It’s not jux, that seems to be closed. It’s not Soup, that seems still in development and too small.)

One of the reasons for delaying the announcement for next few days is they don’t want a “land grab” where people take the names of current popular Tumblr users over there (cyber squatting). So they are looking at ways for existing Tumblr users to keep the same names on the new site.

More info over the days to come.

The plan is, broadly:

1. By December 9th, announcement of the new site and how to secure your username there

2. By December 10th, an online tool for bloggers to copy their existing content to the new site automatically, with the same tags and captions.

3. Bloggers will need to copy their content across between December 10th and December 17th if they want to use the automatic tool.

4. My understanding is that after December 17th there will be no public access to any “flagged” posts on Tumblr, but the original poster will still be able to see the flagged post (for a short time at least). Therefore, the original poster may still be able to manually download a post to their own PC or phone, after December 17th, and manually upload it to the other site. But if you have lots of posts that will take a long time, it will be better to use the automatic tool before December 17th.

Please understand that these dates are approximate and may change for technical or other reasons.

There may be a few rough edges or not so perfect looking site design on the transfer tool. Everyone is doing their best. The main goal here is to help as many people as possible preserve access to their content, in the short space of time Tumblr has allowed us, and preserve as much as possible of the Tumblr community spirit somewhere new.

The new site will cater for photo, GIF, text and html posts. It will not offer video and audio posts, due to cost reasons - maybe in future, but for now you will need to preserve video and audio content yourself in some other place.

If your Tumblr blog has a mixture of original content and reblogs, or all reblogs, all of that can be copied over to the new site. Reblogs will become “your” original content if nobody else posted them yet, otherwise they will be shown as reblogs. The devs are looking at ways to preserve attribution of reblogs back to the original Tumblr poster, if that person also moves to the new site.

Important: your Likes cannot be copied from Tumblr to the new site. You will have to go find the same posts again on the new site, and like them afresh.

(Similarly, existing reblog comments, asks, messages and other user interaction on Tumblr cannot be copied to the new site - that’s just too much to do, in the short time available.)

If you want to preserve any of your existing Liked posts on Tumblr, you will need to either: (1) download the post to your own PC, or: (2A) reblog it now to your own Tumblr blog, and then (2B) use the automatic tool, before December 17th, to move your whole Tumblr blog across to the new site.

If you have Liked a lot of posts here on Tumblr, the gridllr.com webapp should be able to help you do steps 1 and 2A quickly, I mean download or reblog.

(Someone complained to me today about the appearance of Gridllr on a phone. It’s best to use Gridllr on a PC, Mac or Tablet with a large screen.)

If you have liked a post here on Tumblr and the original poster decides to delete it, or even to delete their entire blog, some time before December 17th, then that post will be permanently lost. So if you want to be sure to preserve any of your Liked posts, you should best download or reblog as soon as possible. If it’s reblogged to your own blog it is safe from deletion, at least for next few days.

Obviously, you will lose access, after December 17th, to all past posts you have liked, if Tumblr has flagged them as NSFW. Again, the steps (1), or (2A) and (2B) covered above will be the only way to hold on to these posts.

gosweetheartedgirl

Oh I so hope this works. It would be great to get this out so we can try to get as many people as possible all back in one place and not split up all over different platforms.

Please reblog

time4us2play

👍👍

princess-t-rex-daisy

hoping for a Christmas miracle!! Boost this guys!!

dadaslilmewmew

This would be ah-mazing!

freshouttathegape

Fingers crossed 🤞🏻

acheron4

I will not scroll past this once, so sorry if you see me repost it a lot

shadow-spires

Save The Blogs!

Okay, folks. So. Tumblr’s jumped the shark in a big way, and I’m not even just talking about indiscriminately blocking all “adult” content on a platform that IS, in fact, primarily 18+.

Many blogs, like the wonderful @blackkatmagic , that are not especially NSFW have vanished.

(And I for one LIKE being able to go to curated porn blogs run by actual people and have a chance of finding stuff to my taste, it was one of the things that kept me on this hellsite, but that’s another issue entirely.)

I know lots of people are talking about migrating, but none of us are sure to where yet. Pillowfort seems to be an option, some people are talking about Twitter. But for now, it’s a mess, and even if we knew where we were going, it’s often a huge process, and a lot of us have stuff on tumblr that ONLY exists there. One possible quick solution to save your blogs, both NSFW and personal, is to import it to WordPress. I found this solution through from frantic googling on how to save an entire blog, text posts an all. There are several apps for downloading all the pictures from a tumblr, (Plently for Windows, but only a few paid ones for mac, of which Tumbelog Picture Downloader is working for me so far) but this is the only solution I’ve seen so far that allows you to save EVERYTHING. I downloaded my NSFW blog in like 10 min. My regular blog, which is significantly larger, is in the process of importing, but I don’t anticipate any problems. I will, of course, update you if I have any.

This tutorial I found worked really easily. http://quickguide (.) tumblr (.) com/post/39780378703/backing-up-your-tumblr-blog-to-wordpress

I put parenthesis around the .’s like we’re back in FF-Hell, just in case tumblr’s new thing about outgoing links kicks in. You know what to do. To break it down, just in case:

Sign up for a WordPress.com account at wordpress (.) com/start You’ll have to create an account, with your email, a username, and a password. They should send you a confirmation email immediately, check it, activate it, and you’re good to go. On the site, it will ask you for a site name. That page asks you a bunch of other information too, but you only have to fill out the site name.

Then you have to give your site a URL. If you’re lucky, your tumblr URL is still available, if not you’ll have to come up with another one, sorry.

It will tell you if that option is still available for free.

Then it will ask you to pick a plan. Free is really good enough, I swear.

Now you’re set up! You can import your tumblr! The only differences from the linked tutorial are that the Import button is now on the first level menu, not in tools.

Hit Import, then you have to follow the link for “other importers” at the bottom, to find the option for Tumblr.

Then you’ll have to sign in with tumblr, using your normal tumblr credentials. You’ll be redirected there automatically. You’ll have to allow Wordpress permissions on your blog.

Then your blogs, including all your sideblogs, will show up in wordpress.

Hit import, wait a WHILE depending on the size of your blog, and you’re done!

ALSO!!

I made my NSFW blog private for now, since I don’t know WP’s policy on NSFW.

This means that to access it, someone has to have an account and request access. But hey, part of our problem on this hellsite has been people going places they aren’t wanted, so I don’t personally see this as a bad thing. They can send a request from the landing site on your blog, you get an email, click a link in the email, and PRESTO, they have access. To make it private, go to Settings > Reading > Site Visibility. Go back and check, it took me changing the setting twice for it to actually stick. tl;dr, you can import your entire blog to wordpress in just a few steps. I’m going to tag the hell out of this, in no particular order. PLEASE reblog this and spread the word so people know it’s an option. If you’re having trouble, PM me, and I’m happy to help.

@gallusrostromegalus @kaciart @lena221bee @deadcatwithaflamethrower

@norcumi @deandraws @morn-art, @thebisexualmandalorian @kristsune @marloviandevil @punsbulletsandpointythings @protagonistically @cris-art @elfda @fish-ghost @godtierwonder @heartslogos @haekass @iesika @incogneat-oh @itispossibleihaveissues @jaegervega @jhaernyl @the-last-hair-bender @kleine-aster @latenightcornerstore @lectorel @medievalpoc @mgnemesi @me-ya-ri @myurbandream @peskylilcritter @cywscross ,@cheshiresense @varevare @victoriousscarf @whatsmeantobe @swpromptsandasks @gabriel4sam @stonefreeak @brighteyedbadwolf @pumpkin-lith @puzzleshipper @suzukiblu @myurbandream @lacefedora @jademerien

There are a whole bunch more, but that’s a start. Please reblog the hell out of this, so people are aware of this one simple option.

gallusrostromegalus

For people asking how to backup thier blog

thetayspiracy

@dinodaddy @instructor144. For all of yalls people who want to back up their blogs just in case

screamkinky

An option to save your stuff.

loosepussyland

I tried this… my blog is literally too big to backup - too much media. I’d need to pay for extra space since they only allow you to migrate 3GB of media.