“There are other sites if you want to advertise things” yeah like craigslist… rentboy… myredbook… backpage… like how hard do you have to intentionally avoid acknowledging a clear trend going on here (accelerated by SESTA/FOSTA)
ill be honest im not sure how to reconcile the incontrovertible fact that this change WILL be devastating to sex workers that use this site, and have since its inception, with the idea that this change is overall a good thing with a few asterisks
its not even an issue of “oh this sucks for sex workers but at least itll be safe for minors now” cuz given the guidelines tumblr has posted, which allows both written erotica AND any images of minors that arent explicitly sexual content, so still allowing gross shit so long as they skirt some rules
when we continually deem sex workers an acceptable sacrifice that pushes them further and further into danger every time and its just not something we can write off
this change will make it easier to search fandom tags without being assaulted w pics of every character in a kids show fucking, which is great, but speaking from personal experience, when i was younger, the nasty ass fic stuff that people wrote was at least as damaging to me cuz that didnt have the same immediate scroll past it response when i was more in fandom
it’s so difficult not being able to use milennial humor in a corporate setting. like i made a mistake today and i wanted to tell my supervisor it’s because i suffer from Dumb Bitch Disease, but do you think that would fly?? fuck no. i gotta say shit like, “sorry for the misunderstanding!” i can’t wait till the workforce is made up entirely of millennials and i can say “sorry i drank idiot juice for breakfast this morning” and my coworkers will be like “oh worm.”
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.
Wired: Chanukah Miracles, where my work didn’t think we would be able to light our fire since the lighter was missing but I found a beat up lighter on the ground that worked just long enough for me to start our fire
anyways please support sex workers during this. donate / support what content you can. reblog posts with their information if they’re choosing to move to another platform. don’t treat their livelihoods as a footnote in these discussions of these new policies.
Tumblr‘s spoiled me in that aspect…
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