Tumblr is at risk of an exodus so be my mastodon friend

Submitted by hollyhoppet in just_post

Tumblr has release new guidelines essentially banning all nsfw content. This is going to be to the huge detriment to many users of the site. Especially people who make a living off you know content that appeals to marginalized people and helps them explore their sexuality, and those who consume that content.

In the event of the site collapsing, or maybe me just being tired of Tumblr's hogwash, I am trying to build up my Mastodon network. If you have one feel free to follow me here. Note that Mastodon is decentralized, and you can follow me from any Mastodon instance. The most popular and basic one iirc is https://mastodon.social.

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musou wrote

i know there's good reasons to dislike the change but i gotta admit it's gonna be a benefit to me personally. i'm looking forward to not having to see gross triggering shit multiple times a day in order to block the pornbots.

definitely a more heavy-handed solution to that problem than was warranted, tho.

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toasthaste wrote

How does mastodon's interface/functionality compare to tumblr's? There's a lot of things I like about how tumblr works including

Make any kind of post. Write a huge essay and embed images and videos throughout, no character limits or nothin. When you reblog something, you can add to it, and the version with the addition can itself be reblogged, and added to, etc etc. You can search your own blog by tag, which is SO so useful for organizing the thing. A way to reply to posts that doesn't make it pop up on your blog and make all your followers have to scroll past it. Probably other things? But those are the big ones that come to mind that are real important to me.

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toasthaste wrote

Replying to musou (#6,190)

I actively avoid nsfw content on the site myself but this is basically the death knell for tumblr, is the main thing for me. (It was already damaging enough that they were culling blogs, posts, and tags, seemingly at random, but nothing prompts a mass exodus like taking people's porn away.)

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devtesla wrote

Replying to toasthaste (#6,192)

mastodon is twitter-like so it's not going to let you post essays (unless you write them elsewhere and link them) and replies will show up on the timeline for people who follow you and the person you're replying to. there's no quoting posts either.

it does have a nice search though.

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hollyhoppet OP wrote

Replying to toasthaste (#6,192)

As dt said mastodon is fairly twitter-y. I don't know if I really like that tbh but there isn't really anything around that's tumblr-like yet. There is one site called pillowfort that's in the work but for now it seems that they're in some sort of donate-and-get-a-registration beta so who knows where that'll go.

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toasthaste wrote

Replying to hollyhoppet (#6,198)

yeah, I've been keeping an eye on pillowfort and I think odds are I'll just hold out for that. Heck, I might even be tempted to toss them the $5 it takes to get into the beta, depending on how fast tumblr disintegrates and whether I can convince myself to just read books instead.

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hollyhoppet OP wrote

Replying to toasthaste (#6,199)

If you do lemme know i'll buy in too.

Also omg thing that nothing but tumblr does that you'll never be able to see anywhere else at least today is the glory of awful custom tumblr themes.

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mankyfax wrote

https://mastodon.social/@mankyfax

i just like this comfortable corner full of cats and birds and shitposts and trees and juuuuust enough social interaction to pass for interaction that ive made myself on my dash and don't want to lose that

pillowfort looks like the best or closest alternative so far, but idk. i just don't want to have to build up a network :c

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