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 more suggestions if you have them!!
for general use
myspace.com – yes, it still exists, i’m just as surprised as you
soup.io – very similar to tumblr, plus it can import your tumblr blog
twitter.com – allows posting both text and photos in sets, allows retweets
livejournal.com – still an option, but questionably safe for fandom
wordpress.com – old and well-established, often considered the default
geared towards artists and photographers
deviantart.com – huge community, allows posting art + sorting into folders
furaffinity.net – similar to DA but for furries, easy to display commish info
instagram.com – photo and video posts, excellent tag search
piczel.tv – allows both streaming and posting art / photosets to a gallery
pixiv.net – huge anime art community, allows livestreaming
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
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 and soup both allow 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!
Hey everyone! I’ve been sorting through my NSFW sideblog to see what has and hasn’t been flagged as ‘sensitive content’. I decided to prepare a handy pictorial guide to help you make the most of the new and IMPROVED tumblr rules! You’ll find that the new guidelines are actually pretty flexible and leave plenty of space for creative and personal expression!
YAY: lingerie shots!
NAY: lingerie shots of men.
YAY: cute and sexy couple photos, like your boyfriend sweeping you off your feet!
NAY: cute and sexy couple photos of your gay boyfriend sweeping you off your feet:
YAY: displays of loving affection between a lady breast and disembodied hand(s)!
NAY: explicit gay sex acts like the following:
YAY: tasteful modelling shots:
NAY: pornographic modelling shots:
YAY: thin white people in bed together:
NAY: black men wearing pants, apparently?
Okay but in all seriousness, yes, this is an over-simplification and yes, plenty of straight and/or female content on my blog was flagged too. But overall there is, without a doubt, a greater likelihood of queer content and male nudity–whether explicit/sexual or not–being censored. I also found that
(clothed!!)
plus-sized models were more likely to be flagged as ‘sensitive’ than thinner models. A lot of this purge is sheer fucking chaos, but there’s an underlying bias on display, too.
This is infuriating.
okay wow….
@staff you just said you hope to keep the tumblr community as diverse as possible how in the living hell do you explain this 😐
I could listen to you talk about the things you love, the things you’re passionate about, the things that excite you, for hours and hours, even if I had no idea what you were talking about.
I do not understand when people claim that X Group is “inherently” bigoted towards Y Group. I think what they mean to say is that certain forms of bigotry permeate society on a profound level and are therefore impossible to avoid being influenced by, and must be diligently and purposefully unlearned throughout your life.
Yet something being “unavoidably pervasive” is vastly different from being “inherent”. Bigotry is not an innate fact of inescapable human biology. It is not a predetermined trait. If it is, then all hope for a different, better world is futile. I believe that humanity can change and society can discard old, noxious ideas for more compassionate ones – that future generations may perhaps enjoy a world without the same social flaws of today.
Anyway. I hope this attitude is simply a case of imprecise vocabulary rather than earnest belief.
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