Author: maxwelldcollect

dominantlife:

It hasn’t been a week since Tumblr completely shit the bed with their new ban on “female-presenting nipples.”

But this just doesn’t effect women, it has an impact on us all. We are slowly witnessing the disappearance of the freedom of speech. It has been a slow encroachment on us. While we have BEGGED Tumblr, until we are bleeding out of our eyes, for their staff to take bullying seriously, to take stalking seriously, to take copyright seriously. Nope, they focused on nipples, specifically female nipples.

And I am not the only one that has taken issue with their total blind approach to customer service. So has The Guardian, Gizmodo, Washington Post, BBC, another from The Guardian, Huffington Post, CNN Business, another from Gizmodo, Wired, Slate, SYFY Wire, Buzzfeed, even Wil Wheaton is pissed off. @wilwheaton for those who don’t follow him, he is like my social media spirit animal.

If you read through all of those articles, you get a sense of the complete impact of this ban. I even had a link that pointed to an article critical of Tumblr’s decision flagged for removal. So the ban on speech has clearly moved into the political.

The site we are working on is heading to become a safe place for everyone, especially those trying to overcome mental health issues and acceptance, endless cat memes, car blogs, fans, fandoms and more fandoms. Yes, we will always have that wink-to-kink, but that can’t be our total world. Yes, this whole started as a reaction to the banning of adult content but it is NOT just about adult content, that was just the last straw. We all have been on the ass end of Tumblr’s hateful and mean-spirited policies for years. Last week, it all came to a rather frothy head with “female-presenting nipples.” Clearly Yahoo’s Board of Directors are in charge, not the adults. Adults seem to be in limited supply in Tumblr’s C-Suites these days. Kinda like Congress, but that rant I don’t have time for today.

But back to the replacement site… here are some updates;

• We found a host, we have CMS software installed, we have the dependency packages installed and we are working on getting all the bits and bobs to play well together.
• A landing page will be up tomorrow. I have been threatened by an army of tickle bears to have this done. It may not be our final URL, but it will do for now.
• The site name will not be kink specific, it will be welcoming to all; from grandmas with recipes to fanfic writers to evolutionary microbiologists… then nipples – endless waves of nipples that will threaten to drown you in their nippily and buttery goodness.
• We have a channel for those looking for volunteer jobs.
• Also looking for graphic artists with a branding background to work on logo proposals. See the group for details.
• We are plotting, planning and scheming all of this on a Discord server. Follow this link to find us: https://discord.gg/z3SQJjB

If that link doesn’t work, go to Discord and open an account, then try the link again. If it STILL doesn’t work, wait a bit and try again. Some people have had to do this three times to get in. This is a Discord issue and the only workaround I know of is just to keep trying.

Lastly, a special shoutout to all you pirates! I love you ninjas too, but you guys love your invisibility powers and I can never see you… until it is too late. 

Maybe the army of tickle bears are really ninjas masquerading as tickle bears. Hell, I don’t EVEN know what is going on in my life anymore.

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!
• if that’s still a little daunting you can try soarcodes’ tumblr post that also has a decent tutorial!

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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