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Reddit actively discourages people from posting their own original content, other than a small number of subs intended for it.
Are you sure? Among the reddit snobs not posting "original content" is frowned upon
Awful site. Won't even load if cookies are blocked. Summary, after stripping all markup: The internet is for porn, goes the song from musical Avenue Q. Since Tumblr announced this week that it will no longer be part of that internet, many users are mounting an exodus to existing networks like still-freewheeling Twitter, as well as efforts to build a new kind of Tumblr, the kind of Tumblr that Tumblr had been until no…
Awful site. Won't even load if cookies are blocked. Summary, after stripping all markup: The internet is for porn, goes the song from musical Avenue Q. Since Tumblr announced this week that it will no longer be part of that internet, many users are mounting an exodus to existing networks like still-freewheeling Twitter, as well as efforts to build a new kind of Tumblr, the kind of Tumblr that Tumblr had been until no…
This decade feels like the Victorian era all over again. How long did the last one last?
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Tumblr was pretty terrible at handling CP reports. Like, I reported someone who posted sexually explicit photos supposedly of themself whilst admitting they were underage, and it took two months for Tumblr to send a form message saying they were looking into it and might or might not do something.
This is not going to be a popular comment, but it seems like the main problems in that situation are poor parenting and the harsh criminalization of willful adolescent behavior as "child" "pornography".
No mention of reddit?
It might be used as a substitute but the people that stuck to Tumblr this long probably consciously chose not to move to reddit.
This decade feels like the Victorian era all over again. How long did the last one last?
Here is one plausible theory: http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/the-censorious-age
That's cute. The Tumblr Refugees don't think that Twitter is censored.
It’s not. The only caveats are that you have to mark porn as porn, and you’re not allowed to get paid for it. Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwavkq/j
The issue they are going to run into is that they are automatically going to be labeled a porn site. As such they will automatically lose the top tier of advertisers and payment processors. In addition, because they are new and probably won’t have the filtering systems in place, very offensive content including cp will likely get posted. This will further make them a pariah to the main stream internet with app stores…