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masterpost of tumblr alternatives

olderglow

this post will be updated as I find more websites to add! please check with the original before reblogging to see if there’s an updated version, and message me with corrections or more suggestions if you have them!!

websites in red have explicitly forbidden the posting of NSFW content. websites in orange allow certain types of NSFW content or have questionable / unclear guidelines.

for general use

  • friendproject.net - built on myspace, great blog customization
  • gab.ai - added for completeness, but has a huge alt-right + racism issue
  • joinmastodon.org - basically like if twitter and discord had a child??
  • mewe.com - privacy-focused, has groups and private messages
  • minds.com - allows you to exchange traffic for being promoted (??)
  • myspace.com - yes, it still exists, i’m just as surprised as you
  • nibblebit.com - similar to tumblr with reblogs / likes / customizing of blogs
  • pinterest.ca - easy sharing and collecting, but has many issues with theft
  • swarmr.com - looks like a clone of tumblr, though i haven’t tested
  • twitter.com - allows posting both text and photos in sets, allows retweets

geared towards writers and bloggers

  • archiveofourown.org - specializes in hosting fic, excellent tagging system
  • dreamwidth.org - a blogging site similar to livejournal or wordpress
  • fanfiction.net - another big name in fanfic posting
  • livejournal.com - still an option, but questionably safe for fandom
  • mibba.com - for creative writers, centered around community feedback
  • quotev.com - decent website for original / fan fic and fandom quizzes
  • royalroad.com - hosts webnovels and other fanfic, nice dark theme
  • wattpad.com - modern pretty fic site with direct links to irl publishers
  • wordpress.com - old and well-established, often considered the default

geared towards artists and photographers

  • artstation.com - excellent website for posting professional art portfolios
  • behance.net - meant for professionals posting various visual media types
  • deviantart.com - huge community, allows posting art + sorting into folders
  • flickr.com - great community for photographers, can join groups
  • furaffinity.net - similar to DA but for furries, easy to display commish info
  • galleria.emotionflow.com - very similar to pixiv, with imo better tagging
  • instagram.com - photo and video posts, excellent tag search
  • newgrounds.com - an oldie but a goodie, allows a ton of media types
  • piczel.tv - allows both streaming and posting art / photosets to a gallery
  • pixiv.net - huge anime art community, allows livestreaming
  • poizen.me - gorgeous website designed for artists to post art AND track comms
    • this one’s still in alpha but looks incredibly promising as a platform and super pretty to look at!! go snap up a username before all the good ones are taken! favouritism what’s that
  • vero.co - app only, similar to insta but with MUCH more privacy control

chat or forum based

  • aminoapps.com - community-based, has blogs + chat, custom themes
  • discordapp.com - great chat app, text + voice, can join infinite servers
  • reddit.com - literally a community for everything, SO MANY CAT PHOTOS

18+ only

  • bdsmlr.com - microblogging + social media for people into kink
  • blogr.xxx - a tumblr clone created specifically for sharing porn
  • fetlife.com - considered one of the biggest kink communities online
  • libertine.center - beautiful + modern site for posting irl nsfw and kink stuff
  • thefetlibrary.com - for posting of erotic stories, replaces bdsmlibrary

paid platforms

  • patreon.com - subscription-based access to many diff types of content
  • pillowfort.io - still in beta, but should function almost identically to tumblr
  • typepad.com - similar to wordpress but with reblogging and a dash

defunct platforms

(so people will stop telling me i forgot them)

  • jux.com - shut down in 2014 due to lack of funds
  • shoandtell.me - now redirects to someone’s personal blog
  • soup.io - more or less closed down this year due to GDPR issues

ways to save your current tumblr posts

  • use the wayback machine! you do have to archive each page of your blog individually but once you do all the content, including media, will be saved exactly as it was at the moment you archived it.
  • wordpress allows you to directly import whole tumblr blogs, and if i recall correctly it’s something both dreamwidth and pillowfort have said they are working on.
  • if you have some knowledge of computers you can try this github solution which uses a python script to download your whole blog to your computer. even if you don’t know anything about programming or the command line they give a very good beginners tutorial on how to use it so you should still give it a shot!

some notes

please note that every site on this list will have pros and cons, and i haven’t listed them here since this post would be a mile long otherwise. please do your research before moving completely over to another site in case they have policies you disagree with.

also, because I see a lot of misinformed people ranting about this: deviantart does not own the art you post. some years ago hot topic stole a ton of art from DA and sold it on merchandise and people assumed that DA gave them permission to do it despite there being literally zero evidence for that claim. DA explictly states in their TOS that you retain copyright and sole license of the art you post.


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slut-trish

Seems like good info 💋😊❤️

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trashgender-neurotica

When you’re an adult man and you try to troll a little girl but instead she drags you straight to hell.

(source)

tikkunolamorgtfo

“I’m down with white nationalism but I will clutch my pearls if I hear an F-bomb.”

White people in a nutshell.

blueeyeddl

Is he calling her “young man” or “young ma'am”? I can’t tell. Considering it’s infowars, may be relevant either way…..

trashgender-neurotica

He said “young man”, no doubt in an attempt to launch into anti-trans rhetoric with her as a prop.

This is a good way to handle that.

deadfoxforcutie

why is it that every reactionary white dude talks like this. “oh wow, oh my gosh!! oh golly!! oh jeepers!!”

frender

it’s actually a little bit horrifying that he would try to expose a child to the lion den of internet white nationalism by making her a prop to make fun of. but yeah, the little girl is “scandalous” because she rightfully called this grown man a fucking idiot

elitigre

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kitty
dbdspirit: “ In response to the NSFW ban being enacted by Tumblr Staff, on December 17th 2018 I propose that we all log off of our Tumblr accounts for 24 hours. The lack of respect and communication between staff and users is stark. Users have been...
dbdspirit

In response to the NSFW ban being enacted by Tumblr Staff, on December 17th 2018 I propose that we all log off of our Tumblr accounts for 24 hours. 

The lack of respect and communication between staff and users is stark. Users have been begging staff to delete the porn bot outbreak, which has plagued the website for well over a year. The porn bots oftentimes send people asks and messages, trying to get them to go to a website full of viruses. They also spam advertisements on others posts.  

Users have also begged that Tumblr ban neo-nazis, child porn, and pedophiles, all which run rampant on the site. The site/app got so bad that it was taken off the app store.

However, instead of answering the users, Tumblr has instead taken the liberty to ban all NSFW content, regardless of age. But users have already run into issues of their SFW content being marked as sensitive and being flagged as NSFW, not allowing them to share their work.

Not only does this discriminate again content creators, but it also discriminates against sex workers. Disgustingly, the ban will be enacted on December 17 which is also International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.

This ban is disgusting, and while I (and plenty of others) welcome porn bots and child porn being banned, the Tumblr filtration system is broken. It tags artistic work’s nipples as NSFW (when it is art), it tags SFW art as NSFW (when it is not), and does not stop the porn bots, neo-nazis and dozens of other issues.

This ban is discriminatory. This ban is ineffective. This ban is unacceptable. 

To protest, log off of your Tumblr account for the entirety of November 17th. Log off at 12 am EST or 9PM PST and stay off for 24 hours. Don’t post. Don’t log on. Don’t even visit the website. Don’t give them that sweet ad revenue. 

Tumblr’s stock has already taken a hard hit. Let’s make it tank. Maybe then they will listen to the users. 

Reblog to signal boost! We must force change.

Source: dbdspirit
staff

A better, more positive Tumblr

staff

Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.

Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).  

Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.

So what is changing?

Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.

Why are we doing this?

It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.

Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.

So what’s next?

Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.

Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.

Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.

Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.

Jeff D’Onofrio
CEO

bombshells4chanel

Your gonna lose alot of users 🤦🏾‍♂️