Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

Post by nerdponx » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 9:06 AM UTC

namlem wrote: post #385

nickthegreek wrote: post #15

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Agreed. So many artists, photographers and models used tumblr to showcase their work. It was also easy to link your blog to a .com with little to no webdev experience. The only other social media network out there with a following that allows near the same level of expression is twitter and I have already seen posts from artists directing their followers there. But twitter is no real substitute to what tumblr offered…

Reddit has user pages now. It's a bit rough, but it can pretty much fill tumblr's functionality.

Post by pdimitar » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 11:03 AM UTC

Nasrudith wrote: post #294

pdimitar wrote: post #9

If Verizon bought Tumblr with the sole purpose of having one more service to serve ads to, and if banning the adult content move aims to please the advertisers then oh boy, are they in for a nasty surprise. Tumblr will become a ghost town in days.

They always make the same boneheaded mistake with media. People go to a platform because it has what they want. There is something very minutely controversial that nobody in the target market gives a flip about anyway. Therefore now that we spent all this money getting it we should make it bland and advertiser friendly like what everbody alreafy left and hey where did everybody go again? I just don't get how that kee…

Post by vharuck » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 11:42 AM UTC

corvos wrote: post #367

crazygringo wrote: post #305

Seeing as everyone seems to agree the whole point (if we're being real) of Tumblr is adult content, that there's at least some acknowledgement that there's real societal value in having a safe space for various kinds of healthy adult sexual kinks that are non-mainstream, and that with this move Tumblr will surely pull a Digg and probably disappear for all intents and purposes... ...why isn't Verizon managing to sell…

4chan just split the SFW parts into 4channel for advertiser reasons, so its clearly a feasible idea

Post by AngryAnt » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 12:03 PM UTC

Grue3 wrote: post #438

urda wrote: post #282

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Apple pulled the app after they had found child pornography on the platform, not because it has porn. Otherwise how would the suite of reddit apps (another social site with plenty of porn) exist within the Apple ecosystem? Clearly Tumblr took the nuclear option and just banned everything instead, again not Apple. Please read up on the situation more before continuing.

>Apple pulled the app after they had found child pornography on the platform, not because it has porn. They wouldn't let the app back into the app store unless they get rid of all porn. There's no reason why they would piss of most of their userbase otherwise. "Child pornography" is the classic "think of the children" misdirection, it has always been against the site rules, and the law. >How would the suite of reddit…

Post by stevenicr » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 1:18 PM UTC

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Don't you happen to know any alternatives BTW?

Some people on Reddit are recommending Pixiv, a Japanese site.