If you’re leaving Tumblr for good, then cancel your account on your way out.

thelastenglishgentleman:

prostatorgasm:

nomadicism:

Sounds drastic. Especially for content creators who may still need Tumblr for commissions while they find an alternative.

If you can swing it, here’s why:

I suspect that the December 17th deadline is so that Verizon/Yahoo can clean house and make Tumblr appealing to investors. This is a Q4/Q1 fire sale kind of thing. It makes a certain amount of business sense to make this change. Human-lead content curation (e.g. separating the CP from the legit) is expensive and time-consuming. I doubt they have the money for it. They already sold off Flickr. As a long-time Flickr pro user, I’m not pleased by the change and increase in pro account price, but I get it.

Investors are looking for a user base. User base is a prime attraction for investment or buy-out for a social media platform or application (I speak from experience as a co-founder of Rhinobird.tv).

Every account that is cancelled will be one less account in Tumblr’s user base for their pitch. I assume that there are millions of accounts with some percentage simply being abandoned accounts that haven’t been used in years. So cancelling one’s account on the way out the door won’t really matter unless the number of cancelled accounts reaches several hundred thousand at least.

If you decide to leave and cancel, then I also recommend sending a polite message to Tumblr staff, or tweet to the account about why you are leaving.

Finally, using Twitter to voice your concerns and thoughts about this issue will increase its visibility. They ain’t gonna like that. Media outlets that cater to tech entrepreneurs, and Silicon Valley types are going to be all over this.

I never ask for reblogs, but I will this one time.

Reblog!!!

Please reblog this. It speaks volumes.

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masterpost of tumblr alternatives

asmodeus-cain:

olderglow:

this post will be updated as I find more websites to add! please check with the original before reblogging to see if there’s an updated version, and message me with corrections or more suggestions if you have them!!

websites in red have explicitly forbidden the posting of NSFW content. websites in orange allow certain types of NSFW content or have questionable / unclear guidelines.

for general use

• friendproject.net - built on myspace, great blog customization
• gab.ai - added for completeness, but has a huge alt-right + racism issue
• joinmastodon.org - basically like if twitter and discord had a child??
• mewe.com - privacy-focused, has groups and private messages
• minds.com - allows you to exchange traffic for being promoted (??)
• myspace.com - yes, it still exists, i’m just as surprised as you
• nibblebit.com - similar to tumblr with reblogs / likes / customizing of blogs
• pinterest.ca - easy sharing and collecting, but has many issues with theft
• swarmr.com - an exact tumblr clone down to the default images (??)
• twitter.com - allows posting both text and photos in sets, allows retweets

geared towards writers and bloggers

• archiveofourown.org - specializes in hosting fic, excellent tagging system
• dreamwidth.org - a blogging site similar to livejournal or wordpress
• fanfiction.net - another big name in fanfic posting
• livejournal.com - technically an option, likely unsafe for LGBTQ peeps
• mibba.com - for creative writers, centered around community feedback
• quotev.com - decent website for original / fan fic and fandom quizzes
• royalroad.com - hosts webnovels and other fanfic, nice dark theme
• wattpad.com - modern pretty fic site with direct links to irl publishers
• wordpress.com - old and well-established, often considered the default

geared towards artists and photographers

• artstation.com - excellent website for posting professional art portfolios
• behance.net - meant for professionals posting various visual media types
• deviantart.com - huge community, allows posting art + sorting into folders
• flickr.com - great community for photographers, can join groups
• furaffinity.net - similar to DA but for furries, easy to display commish info
• galleria.emotionflow.com - very similar to pixiv, with imo better tagging
• instagram.com - photo and video posts, excellent tag search
• newgrounds.com - an oldie but a goodie, allows a ton of media types
• piczel.tv - allows both streaming and posting art / photosets to a gallery
• pixiv.net - huge anime art community, allows livestreaming
• vero.co - app only, similar to insta but with MUCH more privacy control

chat or forum based

• aminoapps.com - community-based, has blogs + chat, custom themes
• discordapp.com - great chat app, text + voice, can join infinite servers
• reddit.com - literally a community for everything, SO MANY CAT PHOTOS

18+ only

• bdsmlr.com - microblogging + social media for people into kink
• blogr.xxx - a tumblr clone created specifically for sharing porn
• fetlife.com - considered one of the biggest kink communities online
• libertine.center - beautiful + modern site for posting irl nsfw and kink stuff
• thefetlibrary.com - for posting of erotic stories, replaces bdsmlibrary

paid platforms

• patreon.com - subscription-based access to many diff types of content
• typepad.com - similar to wordpress but with reblogging and a dash

up-and-coming platforms

• pillowfort.io - closed beta. should function almost identically to tumblr but with many many improvements
• poizen.me - development alpha. gorgeous website for artists to post art AND track comms
• this one’s still early in development but looks incredibly promising as a platform and super pretty to look at!! go snap up a username before all the good ones are taken! favouritism what’s that
• qink.co - pre-alpha. 18+ only. plans to be a kink-oriented replacement for tumblr.

defunct platforms

(so people will stop telling me i forgot them)

• jux.com - shut down in 2014 due to lack of funds
• shoandtell.me - now redirects to someone’s personal blog
• soup.io - more or less closed down this year due to GDPR issues

ways to save your current tumblr posts

• use the wayback machine! you do have to archive each page of your blog individually but once you do all the content, including media, will be saved exactly as it was at the moment you archived it.
• wordpress allows you to directly import whole tumblr blogs, and if i recall correctly it’s something both dreamwidth and pillowfort have said they are working on.
• tumblthree is a great tool with a ton of functions including downloading whole blogs, only posts tagged with a certain tag, all the posts you’ve liked, etc. etc. along with being able to download every type of media hosted on tumblr (pictures, videos, audio, everything). it also has a proper GUI so no computer knowledge required beyond downloading and running programs!
• if you have some knowledge of computers you can try this github solution which uses a python script to download your whole blog to your computer. even if you don’t know anything about programming or the command line they give a very good beginners tutorial on how to use it so you should still give it a shot!
• if that’s still a little daunting you can try soarcodes’ tumblr post that also has a decent tutorial!
• here’s another python script that should allow you to archive all the images from your blog or your likes, though it requires some knowledge of python and the command line or very very good google skills.

some notes

edit: please stop commenting on this post to self-promote your porn accounts on other sites. those replies / reblogs will be deleted or hidden.

please note that every site on this list will have pros and cons, and i haven’t listed them here since this post would be a mile long otherwise. please do your research before moving completely over to another site in case they have policies you disagree with.

also, because I see a lot of misinformed people ranting about this: deviantart does not own the art you post. some years ago hot topic stole a ton of art from DA and sold it on merchandise and people assumed that DA gave them permission to do it despite there being literally zero evidence for that claim. DA explictly states in their TOS that you retain copyright and sole license of the art you post.

and related, mastodon does not allow or condone CP or pedophilia. the people spreading this info are misinformed about what mastodon is. it is not an exact twitter clone; anyone anywhere can host a mastodon instance using their personal computer as a server, which means mastodon as a company can’t do jack shit to moderate them. what they DO is permanently block all users from every other instance from viewing or interacting with that instance, and add that instance to a publicly viewable list along with the reason for the block. please give their post about anti-abuse measures a read before making snap judgements.

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Thought some people might want to know before or after they’ve already jumped to other platforms… I see names in red that people have already jumped to and possibly paid to use.

I’m sticking around until I’m satisfied with my research. Then I’ll pick a new explicit home. I’ll still be using tumblr as a learning tool because the people I’ve come to respect will still be here offering advice. Once I find a home I’ll make an announcement as to were to find me.

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SIGN THIS PETITION TO KEEP ADULT CONTENT

screwingwithsfm:

https://www.change.org/p/tumblr-com-allow-nsfw-content-on-tumblr
https://www.change.org/p/tumblr-com-allow-nsfw-content-on-tumblr
https://www.change.org/p/tumblr-com-allow-nsfw-content-on-tumblr

Tumblr wants to take away all adult content on the platform, abandoning a large majority of it’s userbase which uses the site for this exact matter. Please sign the above petition if you would like to keep tumblr the way it is. They need to be shown that they will lose a HUGE amount of their traffic if they’re too carry this through.

PLEASE REBLOG AND SHARE

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Hello BOY

This phrase is one of those things that I’ve seen a lot in the community. People who engage in calling others by titles before anything else has been exchanged.

I’m not a fan of any of that. It may have its place within actual bdsm and hypnosis, but not as an introduction. I know that some people like to constantly affirm their role (subject, switch, master, etc.) but I’m just really not a fan.

I’ve hardly ever talked to a genuinely good hypnotist who started off with that stuff outside of the sessions and when I hypnotize others, I tend to not do it either (usually not even when they are under, but that’s more of a style thing and a subject preference).

What are your thoughts?

New Directions

So, in the past I’ve always posted things that I have considered beautiful. However, I would like the direction of this page to become a bit more towards hypnosis.

Besides, I think 80% of what follows me is pornbots anyway, so they won’t mind :)

mesmereyes7:

Talk to Me!

I love chatting, I promise I won’t bite…but I just might hypnotize you ;)

Originally posted by mistermindwiper

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