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[bimarried-dad-in-toronto]

Tumblr Inquisition

When did freedom of expression suddenly become an online crime? When did an attack on a specific subset of any group ever work to the benefit of any institution?

In this bloggers humble opinion, Tumblr’s December 17th forced genocide of Adult Content blogs is just another example of how our society is slipping backwards in its level of tolerance towards anything that is different, preferring to have this type of content hidden away, and marked with a scarlet letter of intolerance and shame.

Are there issues revolving around certain types of blogs Yes. Child pornography and other unacceptably content is abhorrent to all. Is Tumblr going after those specific types of blogs? No. Are they setting up a system that blocks minors from accessing adult content blogs? No. They are preferring to follow a simplistic “nuke it all” approach rather than address the overall problem. Taking a M.A.D (mutually assured destruction) approach, can only end in one way, for without adult content, Tumblr will die off.

So my friends and followers(93k amazing individuals), I challenge you to reblog this note, and challenge Tumblr’s decision. Perhaps, if enough of us stand up and protest some good will come of it. Resist, and fight the good, and honourable, fight.

[brunswickguy]

[naturistchristians]

[nudistworld3-deactivated2018060]

Perfect illustration of how backwards it is!

[just4sprt]

Messed up stuff

[para56-deactivated20190312]

[thisobscuredesireforbeauty]

[bimarried-dad-in-toronto]

Tumblr Inquisition

When did freedom of expression suddenly become an online crime? When did an attack on a specific subset of any group ever work to the benefit of any institution?

In this bloggers humble opinion, Tumblr’s December 17th forced genocide of Adult Content blogs is just another example of how our society is slipping backwards in its level of tolerance towards anything that is different, preferring to have this type of content hidden away, and marked with a scarlet letter of intolerance and shame.

Are there issues revolving around certain types of blogs Yes. Child pornography and other unacceptably content is abhorrent to all. Is Tumblr going after those specific types of blogs? No. Are they setting up a system that blocks minors from accessing adult content blogs? No. They are preferring to follow a simplistic “nuke it all” approach rather than address the overall problem. Taking a M.A.D (mutually assured destruction) approach, can only end in one way, for without adult content, Tumblr will die off.

So my friends and followers(93k amazing individuals), I challenge you to reblog this note, and challenge Tumblr’s decision. Perhaps, if enough of us stand up and protest some good will come of it. Resist, and fight the good, and honourable, fight.

[supporttheconstitution]

Thanks to all my Leftist social justice warriors who have accomplished established their church of political correctness over all of us.  I hope all you Lefty Democrats wake the hell up and realize the bad direction we are going.

[winsfeld]

BUT In that case, it’s the left. The homosexuals who are so narcissistic/selfish that they have to love same-sex because the technology isn’t ready to fuck themselves yet. And the depressives who define their identity as victims. Both are classic left-wing groups. Just search for a conservative keyword and you will find only Hatespeak from the Leftys. What do you think; if i reduce step-by-step over 60 years long the educational expenses? What will come out? A generation that thinks it’s the smartest of all time! Obama fans. The fact that this website is switched off is a reason to celebrate. Politically speaking. It was only left-wing propaganda apart from eroticism. From infants for infants. Footnote: I know that Americans are too stupid to distinguish between narcissism, selfishness and egoism. Don’t think about it; your brain would explode. Footnote 2:The lowest level of any decision of an individual is random. Chance determines our life. But in a group, dependency, system, level 2, there is no chance anymore. The modern state forms its slaves.

[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:

[sexualsensualmenagerie]

To bad, they did not give us more time-For 30-40 Thousand we could create a platform similar to Tumblr.  1000 people times $50 would have got us $50,000, which includes a year of maintenance.

[dumb-jockboy-deactivated2021092]

Don’t Point at Tumblr, Point at Verizon

I don’t need to re-explain the anger and frustration going through the Tumblr community over the impending adult-content ban. Soon enough, this NSFW blog will empty out like all the rest. But before that happens, I would like to share some thoughts on where to point our frustrations.

Right now, much of the criticism by targeted blogs has been against Tumblr. But this is missing the mark. Our community anger should be placed squarely on Verizon, Tumblr’s new corporate parent.

In terms of Verizon’s entire media portfolio, Tumblr is just a blip on the radar, especially in terms of ad revenue. But you know what is important? Verizon’s reputation and branding. The more we refocus on slamming Verizon, not just here but on Twitter, Instagram, Google Reviews, and more, then more they’ll sweat their decision.

I don’t know how much difference it will make in the long run, but to really get our voice heard among corporate giants we’re better off aiming for the top.

[girls-who-love-masturbation]

Reblog!!!!

[redrosewitch]

Fair enough. Yes

[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.

[strippedbareandkneeling]

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[dominantlife]

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Please reblog the crap out of this!

[gulfcoastlifestylecouple-deacti]

We’re moving to MeWe

That’s the plan for the time being. Seems like an open and vibrant community. Look us up. First name: GulfCoast, last name: LifestyleCouple.

Checking out Sharesome as well and will keep an eye on things around here until all the dust settles. Happy trails!

[wide-awaaaaake]

Alternatives to Tumblr if Yahoo goes any further

Soup.io - well-known alternative to Tumblr. Reblogging, post types, themes, collab blogs, dashboard, artsy, great community already there. Soup can auto-import everything you’ve posted on Tumblr.

TypePad - Includes reblogging. Dashboard and post types similar to Tumblr.

Jux - Artful posts, beautiful blogging experience

[bollymusings]

Reblogging cause one day it just may be neccessary.

[arubbishmedic]

It became necessary

[femaleleduniversity]

This is necessary until they ban adult content too. It’s not the same migrating to a new platform.

[dommesubdreams]

The first to are pay sites. The last doesn’t load for me.

[sluttylittledog2-deactivated201]

I haven’t tried those but Ello seems to be a good alternative. I’ve already moved there and

[dsmith3221]

[provocative-old-imgs-blog]

[vintageeveryday]

Mustang girl, 1969.

[qbarts-deactivated20181221]

[islandsurfandsun-deactivated201]

Only one thing satisfies me like being on the water… – Katy

[latterjohn365]

Look at those firm breasts!