Goodbye Tumblr

Instead of listening to your users on better and more effective ways to combat and prevent the circulation of child porn and porn bots you have decided to completely ban all NSFW content to appease Apple.

You are out of touch with you user-base who depend on NSFW content for a living or for a place of acceptance.

Tumblr was one of the last mainstream social media sites being a safe space for adults to express themselves with NSFW art and content. Censorship and the denial of nudity, erotica and sex as valid forms or art is demeaning and puritanical.

Sexworkers, women and the lgbtq+ communities will be the most affected here come December 17th.

People who depend on their NSFW content are now without revenue and their livelyhoods are at risk. This outright censorship just pushes all the horrible and ilegal content you are to lazy to properly fix deeper down the abyss and dose not fix anything but make it worse for all.

I’m not posting anything else on here in solidarity with all those marginalized with this decision.

Alternatives to Tumblr are below

• Twitter
• Reddit
• Ao3
• Pillowfort (a lot of people are excited about this platform)
• Even pornhub!

Tl;Dr Tumblr has pretty much backstabbed a large group of it’s user base and they are jumping ship.

oh dear

pillowfort-io:

Yes, we have seen the news! We are planning to have the site back up either tomorrow or Wednesday; we just have a couple last security measures we want to put in place today, but we will be working on it as quickly as possible and we will have a clearer ETA by tonight.

We will also try to come up with a way to lower the barrier to entry for new users, though we don’t want to drop the entry fee entirely because a) we feel that would be unfair to our users who have paid for their registration keys and b) we don’t think our servers could handle a massive influx of new users right now, so we’re going to try to allow as many new users as we can without capsizing the boat. We appreciate your patience and will have more details soon!

ladyshinga:

“lol the only people mad about the tumblr announcement just want porn lol”

Yeah, no.

Tumblr blocked the tag “chronic pain” in this mess for no reason

They’re flagging commonly used tags by queer people, sex educators, and artists who make their fucking LIVING on tumblr

They’re gonna take down genuine sex workers because they didn’t curb the problem with spamming porn bots YEARS ago when tumblr users REPORTED OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND *OVER* that it was a problem

Tumblr IGNORED the bots, IGNORED the problems, and honestly treated it like NOTHING until their app was taken off a store due to it.

They’re fucking over a shit-ton of REAL PEOPLE who rely on tumblr for community and/or income because they ignored users’ complaints about shitty porn bots for YEARS until it had financial consequences

I can no longer even talk about chronic pain without the post being blocked from searches

I have drawn one or two nude pieces on my art tumblr which is 99% safe for work but now I’m worried the blog will be taken down entirely because Tumblr won’t bother differentiating between spam and REAL PEOPLE just trying to live their goddamn lives

And god forbid I want to talk about bisexuality or sex or kink in just… MY LIFE. As a normal-ass human being who just wants to TALK ABOUT HUMAN THINGS

No, their solution to nuke a problem they’ve ignored for years is to take us all down at once

So maybe don’t laugh about “oh no not my pornz” because 1. plenty of that ~porn~ is made by actual humans making their living and 2. WAY MORE than “just porn” is being targeted

This along with Facebook continuously upholding white supremacy by letting nazi shit fly by while they ban people for speaking out against their oppressors and it’s basically like we’re running out of truly free places to just… BE