Where to go on Dec 17. Federated Social Media or how to make sure this does not happen again.
tl;dr at the end.
I think this is impossible but in case you don't know tumblr is banning porn.
What is federated social media?
Federation is the act of uniting in a league. States can federate and make a country and servers can federate and make a network. Examples of this are the US and the email network.
Why is federation good?
If you are unsatisfied with your email provider you can just move to another one and still talk to your friends like nothing happened. Imagine if there were many "tumblr providers" and now that this one shat itself you could move to another one, with different rules, and keep doing business as usual. Follow and be followed by the same people whether they stayed here or not. Wouldn't that be great? Well, it is great. Because that does exist.
It gets even better
All those "tumblr providers", called instances are not just "tumblr providers" they also can be "facebook providers", "twitter providers", "instagram providers", etc. All speaking the same language(protocols, ActivityPub and OStatus). This means people on completely different social networks can follow you and you can follow back. We call this big thing the Fediverse (federated universe).
Instances can all also have different interfaces so you can choose which you like best.
Softwares used by instances and why they matter
Which software your instance uses will determine how their page looks. The main one now in terms of development and user base(millions) is Mastodon. It began as a twitter clone, there are others such as Pleroma and Misskey that more resemble tumblr. GNUSocial is also pretty big but looks more like facebook.
How do I join?
If you are using pixiv you probably already did. pixiv.net provides one of the biggest mastodon instances, pawoo.net
Choose an instance that uses the software you want and create an account, then give people your new email-like-address such as [email protected]
For instances running the Mastodon software go to: joinmastodon.org and click on "Get Started". It will show you a list of instances that you can filter by interest and language. If you don't care just choose one with a cool name, most accept NSFW if tagged accordingly. The url of the instance will be part of your mastodon address, as in [email protected](catgirl.science this actually exists).
You can also check: pleroma.social and misskey.xyz for pleroma and misskey.
tl;dr or I didn’t understand
If you didn’t understand, or don’t care but still think it sounds cool and want to join go to: mstdn.io and create an account. Keep in mind that your account will be “[email protected]”. Telling people it’s just “nickname” is like not saying the “@gmail.com” or “@yahoo.com” at the end of your email.
