You’re fucking ridiculous if you think tumblr’s porn/nudity ban actually has to do with child pornography. Literally every other site can effectively moderate this issue and tumblr has been actively closing in further on their anti-NSFW move. Many sex workers and NSFW artists were removed starting last month after the iOS app was removed from the App Store. Look at FOSTA/SESTA, look at the moves throughout the year to push sex workers and NSFW artists away, look at the way Patreon, Paypal, Craigslist, credit card companies, etc. have over-policed this issue and forced sex workers away. This is all so obvious.
Also, explicitly banning and calling out “female-presenting nipples” – note there’s an exception if it’s after giving birth or during breastfeeding because OBVIOUSLY the only way breasts and nipples are okay is when you’re fulfilling your goddamn job of being an incubator and not just posting nipples wilfully or for (gasp) money. Because obviously, when we’re talking about the banning of child pornopraphy we must target “female-presenting nipples” and let everyone know that those are the real problem. Nipples are only okay when they’re “male-presenting” and in the proximity of a newborn that is confirmed yours.
Like c’mon… FOSTA/SESTA has been presented under the guise of fighting human trafficking just like these moves are no different. If they wanted to go after these very real issues then they would and they definitely wouldn’t be (dangerously) conflating the issues. Also why can I still look up violent pro-Nazi, antisemitic imagery but not a goddamn nipple??
BTW read into how Apple has been forcefully pushing for this move & how easily they can go after other NSFW-content websites and force them to comply.
I was just semi-complaining that I was still looking for a decent way to backup my +6k posts without having to use paid services or even just wordpress (which has an import from tumblr tool that asks for permission to access your blog and also make posts), when I decided to actually put some effort into my google search.
Results were positive: I have successfully backed up my blog*
*By which I mean: everything that I have ever posted. Not included: drafts, queue, likes, followers, following, comments, notes, chat.
I followed this method (word by word), and now have a 450 MB folder on my computer with the name of my blog on it containing:
1. Folder “Archive” (contains .html files listed by month) 2. Folder “Media” (contains gifs and images, mine has +1k files in it; might contain also audios but I have no way of confirming that because I’ve never reblogged an audio post from this blog) 3. Folder “Posts” (contains single .html files, each one a post; I have +4k files in it) 4. Folder “Theme” (contains only my avatar, but it might be a matter of if you have personalized themes or not) 5. .html file “Index” (by opening it it will give you the archive of your blog organized by month; clicking on a month will open up the archive for that month, and you’ll be able to read all the posts for that month as if you were on your blog**, except sans your theme graphic, with each page containing 50 posts)
**I can see gifs, links, embedded videos, tags, number of notes (but I can’t open up the notes, clearly), text is also correctly formatted.
So yeah, in case anyone wants a very quick way to back up their blog, it took me less than 10 minutes.
P.S. I didn’t have any issue, but to be on the safe side always check for spyware and virus threats before and after downloading anything.
this is actually really useful if you have an art blog full of years of work that you otherwise no longer have access to the original files. A lot of the art I have in the early days of my art blog are in that boat. I did this process JUST for that reason and I was pretty astonished at just how many pieces of media it backs up! (literally all of it) Drawings I didn’t even realize were sitting in my archive due to having been posted to text posts or undercuts, or untagged for years! It’s worth it if just for that, even if tumblr isn’t shutting down or deleting your blog.
reference.
how to keep your stuff. Also note; you can backup other people’s blogs if there is someone who has gone inactive and you want their content.
I’ve seen a lot of folks say that writing is lonely. It shouldn’t be. It never has been for me, I’ve always had the opportunity to talk to friends and fellow writers about writing in general and my writing in particular. For at least half my life I’ve had access to doing writing races with friends to get words on paper quickly. For even longer than that, I’ve had folks around willing to offer editing advice to help me learn and grow as a writer.
I felt like maybe there were others out there that could benefit from those kind of resources, but that might not know where to look or might not be able to reach anyone. I don’t know if something like this exists already, but this if so, well, this is my version then.
This Discord is a chat server with various chat channels made for writers to meet other writers and find editors and for editors to meet other editors and find writers. We do writing races often, and discuss writing tricks and lament about writing hardships together. My hope is that it will be used to make new friends and hone skills and maybe find a bit of motivation when we’re feeling alone in our writing.
When you join, you will initially only have access to the welcome chat, until you’ve read the rules and asked for roles (one of which is the Racer role, where you can receive a ping when people are doing writing races). The main server areas are SFW, with a small NSFW channel for discussing 18+ writing/topics.
like, do i hate the porn bot infestation? yes! do i think that a blanket ban on adult content and a big scorched-earth censor algorithm is the best way to deal with that problem? no, because i have a functioning fucking frontal lobe!
tumblr has done only the bare fucking minimum to stem the porn bot tide for years, and now it’s so extreme that it’s simply easier to burn the house down than to clean it. since this platform is not owned and run by fans, but by a for-profit corporation, they don’t see any incentive to do the hard work of maintenance rather than the relatively quick work of destruction.
the people who are doing the hard work of maintenance are over at ao3, and we’ve been over here on tumblr shitting on them and calling them abusers and sickos for archiving our content without judgement and taking us back in every time the platform du jour decides we’re more trouble than we’re worth. i’m serious: if you can spare ten bucks, send it over to ao3, because there is going to be a sudden emergency flood in activity over there in the next few weeks as people try to save their stuff.
“why do we even need ao3/ why won’t they censor content i don’t like/ what’s that money going towards”
it’s going towards not arbitrarily deleting all your fucking blogs overnight because yahoo had a shareholders meeting, that’s what the fuck it’s going towards. if you don’t own it, they can yank the cord whenever they feel like it, for whatever reason, using whatever wobbly catch-all algorithm they want, and that is exactly what the fuck we’ve been telling you. “wellll i’m not a porn blog, it’s not going to affect me,” oh worm?? you sure?? this website is suddenly gonna be capable of censoring posted content with surgical precision? give ao3 ten bucks immediately and get real
like, do i hate the porn bot infestation? yes! do i think that a blanket ban on adult content and a big scorched-earth censor algorithm is the best way to deal with that problem? no, because i have a functioning fucking frontal lobe!
tumblr has done only the bare fucking minimum to stem the porn bot tide for years, and now it’s so extreme that it’s simply easier to burn the house down than to clean it. since this platform is not owned and run by fans, but by a for-profit corporation, they don’t see any incentive to do the hard work of maintenance rather than the relatively quick work of destruction.
the people who are doing the hard work of maintenance are over at ao3, and we’ve been over here on tumblr shitting on them and calling them abusers and sickos for archiving our content without judgement and taking us back in every time the platform du jour decides we’re more trouble than we’re worth. i’m serious: if you can spare ten bucks, send it over to ao3, because there is going to be a sudden emergency flood in activity over there in the next few weeks as people try to save their stuff.
Tumblr Exodus 