As insolvent and un-advertiser friendly as Tumblr is I don’t really think Tumblr is going to just up and shut down. It’s just going to gradually become even buggier and buggier and nothing will get fixed and it’s just going to wring out the usebase like water from a damp towel. It’s probably going to be more like the internet version of visiting a Sears any time in the past five years
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https://twitter.com/kabrox18 i should probably drop this bc im not going to be here on Blue Hell nearly as much
just be warned i spout a lot more nonsense there than i do here
reblogging because links are unlisted; if you want to follow me, feel free to drop a reblog. i know i have a lot of followers at this point but things spread weirdly on this site–i just want to ensure everyone who wants to has a chance
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
Reblogging cause one day it just may be neccessary.
It became necessary
WordPress will also import Tumblr blogs.
i’ve gotten a lot of suggestions for pillowfort and mastodon and even newgrounds, but here are some other alternatives.
in the light of the newest tumblr purge, a lot of sfw content has been unjustly flagged by tumblr as explicit. all of us are here sharing the screenshots of this small dick energy. if you see a post that has been wrongfully tagged, take the time to shoot the OP a quick message (or send them an ask if they have their DMs closed) and link them the post you saw because while staff said they’d be notifying the OPs if their post got flagged, it’s not happening to all of us. my edits, for example, got flagged on accident and I didn’t get an email. I would have never known had I not seen a screenshot of my gifs. please help your creators out in this dumbass time.
please let me know if you notice something.
just to be clear, I’m staying here as long as this site functions. I have 0 intentions of deleting this blog, I will go down with this ship if only to see exactly how bad it gets
From someone who’s survived MySpace, livejournal, deviantart, and fanfiction.nets’ content purges and bad policy updates, here’s some advice on how to get through tumblr’s recent bullshit:
– don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.
– archive everything on your blog you want to keep
– tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.
– tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.
– go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.
– support places like ao3. This is exactly why ao3 asks for donations a few times a year. They are a 100% anti-purging, judgement free, ad free non profit run by an elected board and protected by lawyers. Places like ao3 literally save fandom so please continue to support them and other similar archives. This is exactly why ao3 is so important.
it is so funny how life is just whatever. it’s hilarious. life is so regimented all the way through high school and then after that you just do literally whatever it’s all just whatever. you’re like “should i do this?” and everyone you know is like “just do whatever” absolutely incredible. that can’t be real
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