Tumblr has stated that they are officially banning adult content on December 17… it’s over for this site

olderthannetfic:

frillyfacefins:

olderthannetfic:

bullet-farmer:

olderthannetfic:

Really? What’s the source on this?

https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/03/tumblr-blocking-adult-content-december-17th/ Here ya go. Also check out Staff’s account.

Thanks!

I just got up and hadn’t looked at news yet. Here’s the staff post.

It’s a pity Pillowfort isn’t up and doesn’t have clear guidelines right now. My recommendation to everyone is to make a Dreamwidth while we figure out where to go next.

The staff post is titled ‘A better, more positive tumblr’. I can tell you that while plenty of the porn on here is horrid, a space that bans nsfw is not better or more positive for me. Tumblr is bad for fandom right now, and we should find somewhere better.

Honestly, dreamwidth is kinda horrible for general news, so I really hope pillowfort will take off…

I don‘t want to have to look into 30 different communities to catch up on everything Tumblr‘s spoiled me in that aspect…

DW is definitely different. Back at the height of LJ, there were more fans making newsletters that helped with that issue, the same way Tumblr has fuckyeah accounts that curate the feed from some particular ship/fandom/whatever. Same with non-fandom news. At the height of LJ, there were also more people making short posts saying “Hey, there’s a cool thing over here [link]”. Once LJ became less active and now on DW, people feel like they have to make meaty, significant posts because it has been so long since they’ve updated and/or they’re contrasting to Tumblr shitposting. It wasn’t always that way, and it doesn’t have to be that way.

But your analogy here isn’t very good: you’re comparing DW coms to your Tumblr dashboard.

On Dreamwidth, a community is like a Tumblr tag (except with more moderation, probably). Your Tumblr dashboard is more like your Dreamwidth “reading page” (or “friendslist” as everyone from LJ still calls it).

If you subscribe to ten DW coms or follow ten accounts on tumblr, they’ll all show up in one feed. If you use Tumblr by directly browsing tags (which is what I do), you still have to go to 10 different places.

ETA: Oh, and because I only really look at my activity page and tags on tumblr, not my dash, it took me forever to see the link to the announcement. Heh. It just goes to show that site design is not the same as how people actually use a site on a practical level.