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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 LinuxBender »

tazjin wrote: post #100
LinuxBender wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 communit…

I agree. If something isn't happy-clicky and already works from their existing browser, most won't bother. Perhaps you could develop a simple innovative way to make Tor easy for that community to adopt. Maybe a small number of them try it out at first.

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

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Post by devwastaken »

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…

The modern web hasn't changed from olden times in any significant manner. Yeah, there's not just random cp being shared across open channels, but the internet is a reflection of humanity. Humans love to share their problems and evils through it. Platforms like Tumblr take what you've found some interest in and scope in on it to surround you with it.

I had a 14 yo cousin who started subscribing to /r/incels and a 'pol' attitude and is simply incapable of being a decent human being. All it takes is group-think and idealogy. People will fall into it, and teens are especially targetable.

You two will get through it. Teens have a lot more change to go through.

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

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Post by specialist »

Aeolun wrote: post #171
village-idiot wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think a lot of people over-estimate the resilience of the human emotional state, especially their own. Time and time again we see regular functioning adults get sucked into objectively insane or self-harmful communities, be it the above phenomenon or 4chan crap like QAnon.

I have my own share of mental issues, but I just have a hard time seeing how I could ever get involved in one of these groups, much less believe the bullshit they are spouting. What is the situation that makes these seem like a solid choice?

I'm more interested in how I (apparently) avoided it all.

Methinks it's because I got it out of the way early on. I definitely have had my own phases for occult, religion, conspiracies, MLM, alcohol, outrage addiction, counter cultural impulses, protests, etc.

Further, I once thought I'd get into journalism, did student radio & TV, wrote for a bit.

I think seeing how the sausage is made, learning the craft, helps one develop an immunity.

Having a contrarian reading list probably helped. For example, Robert Anton Wilson and stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius

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

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Post by Laforet »

fabricexpert wrote: post #108

If you think you can code a tumblr clone in a weekend, this is your opportunity. You have 2 weeks, go!

And please make it usable without a dedicated app. Over the years I have been using tumblr less and less because most templates will crash any browser should you dare to scroll down.

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

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Post by iamdave »

kinos wrote: post #199
ourcat wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think the adult industry has truly been able to simplify things as much as products like tumblr (and other social media networks.) Fetlife probably does a good job for certain 'niches'. What I mean is, all the 'tumblrees' and "their" 'content' ( so much air-quote) will want to go somewhere. En masse. Soon. Most likely in protest.

Why did you word that as if the poster didn't create the content within the blog?

Tumblr as a platform exists on shared content, and actively measures, and provides to the user-measurements of "reblogs". In the context of this discussion, so many user account blogs that could be tagged as 'adult content' are full of reblogged sexual images that the account owner identifies with or wants to advertise as the type of sexual activity they are interested in.

Many comments here are pointing out Fetlife as a refuge for some tumblr ex-pats. Speaking as a Fetlife user, it's not hard to see why the 'their' is in quotes. When you see a tumblr profile on someone's fetlife profile it's often described by the profile owner as "you can see the kind of stuff I'm into on my tumblr" with a small ratio of original content to reshared content. Either images from a movie, online porn, or just "reblog" of another tumblr user's content when not the blogger's own images that are being posted.

This isn't me taking a position on adult content on tumblr, denouncing it or condoning it either way-but I think that bit of context might help answer your question.

It doesn't define the entire experience for the entirety of the porographically inclined userbase, but it's relevant.

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

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Post by msoucy »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #123

I wish the could just tag particular subtumblrs as NSFW or something and filter these by default. Users should be let to choose for themselves. Banning adult content is ridiculous.

I believe that those systems are currently in place, but either aren't considered to be "enough", or people aren't using them properly.

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

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Post by why_only_15 »

claudiawerner wrote: post #165
MorrisofOrange wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Start a subreddit. Try to get as many people in your community to migrate before the 17th.

Reddit isn't exactly known for its tolerance of sexual content that doesn't harm anyone (or violate anyone's privacy).

What are you thinking of that they took down? Most of the stuff seems to be nonsexual and more political or gorey

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

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Post by totfz »

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…

Tumblr is the only place of the internet where showing your kinks is allowed? And this only affects females? Allow me to call bs.
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