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Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by solarkraft »

eigenstuff wrote: post #76
istorical wrote: post #35

I have been archiving many of my favorite tumblr's for some time now, but will have to go in and refresh my downloads. Highly recommend this app called TumblThree for archiving (also TumblTwo) https://www.jzab.de/content/tumblthree The UI is a little annoying and takes a little discovery to figure out, but the actual setup / install is painless. Edit: after reading more about the shutdown, it appears Tumblr may have…

Thank you for this! I had a pretty successful Tumblr where I posted all my crazy, colorful class notes from my math and physics classes and I've been wanting to get all those scans off there and into another place for safe back up. I had hundreds of posts on there, this will actually make it feasible to do this.

Hey, since you mentioned it, could you tell me where to find your blog?

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by mulmen »

notyourday wrote: post #54
behringer wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You need to teach critical thinking skills. Not promote censorship. There's a lot of stupid things in the world you can't censor.

It is much easier to promote censorship than to teach critical thinking. P.S. We do not have anorexia epidemic. We have obesity epidemic.

Does knowledge of the obesity epidemic help anorexics?

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by basic1 »

51lver wrote: post #24

The way things are going with centralization, pretty soon the web itself will be unsuitable for adult media. Maybe we need a xxx:// protocol instead of the .xxx domain suffix.

It's predictable that Internet companies stop being benevolent when their growth has ended, everyone will move elsewhere and it'll happen again in a few years.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by berberous »

bvinc wrote: post #21

My daughter at 12 got sucked into Tumblr and developed an eating disorder. She was in this gigantic web of pro-ana tumblrs with crazy diet plans that tell you to eat like 100 calories a day. Then the app would just keep suggesting more, "skin and bones", "thinspo", "meanspo". Holy crap there are some scary corners of Tumblr. I of course am more mindful of what she looks at, but she was hiding it and I can't monitor e…

Anorexia (and pro-ana websites with words like "thinspo") were around before Tumblr even existed, so it's nothing new. I suppose recommendation algorithms and the existence of this stuff on popular platforms like Tumblr and Instagram could make it more viral and spread more, but I wonder if that's true (e.g. if Anorexia has increased in the past 10 years).

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by panic »

bvinc wrote: post #21

My daughter at 12 got sucked into Tumblr and developed an eating disorder. She was in this gigantic web of pro-ana tumblrs with crazy diet plans that tell you to eat like 100 calories a day. Then the app would just keep suggesting more, "skin and bones", "thinspo", "meanspo". Holy crap there are some scary corners of Tumblr. I of course am more mindful of what she looks at, but she was hiding it and I can't monitor e…

This content will still be allowed, though, since it's not "real-life human genitals or female-presenting nipples".

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by alexis_fr »

b1r6 wrote: post #62
buboard wrote: post #5

Alternative Title: "Tumblr will lose 80% of its visitors come December 18th" Another one: "Tumblr preparing to shut down"

This is exactly correct. Sure there are "clean" portions of Tumblr, but from what I can tell the real purpose is to host adult content. And there's nothing wrong with that! It's a fantastic magnet for eyes, with which to show ads. They're basically killing themselves with this.

Maybe Verizon just signed a deal with Instagram to shut down?

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by rajacombinator »

LeeCyriaca wrote: post #68

there are a lot of jokes being made along the lines of "there goes their userbase" but for me personally this is a huge loss. especially for those of us who have certain kinks, Tumblr to this day has been the only place to ever exist where women could safely express their sexuality. it allowed us to meet like-minded people, it allowed us to break the taboo and it ended the isolation that many of us felt. Tumblrs main…

This is the new reality of the internet, best get used to it. Free speech is dead.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by tazjin »

LinuxBender wrote: post #29
azizinnn wrote: post #7

Well, there is a healthy community concerning a particular obscure kink I have been 'given', that is not present anywhere else. I wonder what are suitable places to migrate to.

Hosting your own server gives you full control. That said, it puts more responsibility and liability on you to do content moderation, assuming you make it public. Some people do a hybrid approach. A public forum/board to share content, with some rules. Then another private server for a smaller group of friends to share anything. You can also create a Tor Hidden Service.

The thing is that for the more niche kink communities on Tumblr the fact that everyone was using it was what made them work.

You will never get that kind of activity on a Tor service. If you look at the more obscure, older fetish-related networks which often still have active IRC channels and such you'll notice that a large portion of people there are quite techy.

I don't think that's true for the wider kink community at all, it's just that the barrier of entry & discoverability of such communities will exclude the less techy folks.

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