just because a witch practices in a way you don’t favour or in a way that doesn’t work for you personally doesn’t mean their way of practice isn’t valid! please support your fellow witches on their journey of self discovery, let’s all educate each other and build each other up instead of judging or turning up our noses to witches of different belief systems!
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A better, more positive Tumblr
Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.
Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).
Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.
So what is changing?
Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.
Why are we doing this?
It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.
Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.
So what’s next?
Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.
Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.
Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.
Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.
Jeff D’Onofrio
CEO
I guess we’ll be going soon then. Very annoying. We abhor child porn or any type of exploitation but we do like erotica. Soon there will be nowhere “safe” on the net where adults can be adults. Welcome to the dumbed down, Disneyfied, puritanical future…
masterpost of tumblr alternatives
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 - an exact tumblr clone down to the default images (??)
- 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 - technically an option, likely unsafe for LGBTQ peeps
- 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
- 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
- typepad.com - similar to wordpress but with reblogging and a dash
up-and-coming platforms
- pillowfort.io - closed beta. should function almost identically to tumblr but with many many improvements
- poizen.me - development alpha. gorgeous website for artists to post art AND track comms
- this one’s still early in development 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 - qink.co - pre-alpha. 18+ only. plans to be a kink-oriented replacement for tumblr.
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.
- tumblthree is a great tool with a ton of functions including downloading whole blogs, only posts tagged with a certain tag, all the posts you’ve liked, etc. etc. along with being able to download every type of media hosted on tumblr (pictures, videos, audio, everything). it also has a proper GUI so no computer knowledge required beyond downloading and running programs!
- 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!
- here’s another python script that should allow you to archive all the images from your blog or your likes, though it requires some knowledge of python and the command line or very very good google skills.
some notes
edit: please stop commenting on this post to self-promote your porn accounts on other sites. those replies / reblogs will be deleted or hidden.
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.
and related, mastodon does not allow or condone CP or pedophilia. the people spreading this info are misinformed about what mastodon is. it is not an exact twitter clone; anyone anywhere can host a mastodon instance using their personal computer as a server, which means mastodon as a company can’t do jack shit to moderate them. what they DO is permanently block all users from every other instance from viewing or interacting with that instance, and add that instance to a publicly viewable list along with the reason for the block. please give their post about anti-abuse measures a read before making snap judgements.
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Info for moving blogs. The porn shall live!
Looks like we’ll soon be banned from here. Check back to see where we migrate to. Suggestions from regular followers welcome.
You Are Not Wrong For Being a Witch
Over the past few months, I have had the great pleasure of being part of a community of witches of all ages, genders, sexualities, methods of practice, and levels of experience. Together we have shared ideas, debated topics, read books, and explored an entire world of magic that we realize every day is more and more expansive than we ever could have imagined even the day before.
Even so, there is discomfort. I have seen so many witches both new “baby” witches and more experienced witches struggle with their identities, and I’m realizing we all do in some way. Whether mainstream religions or even just your parent’s religion is telling you that you are wrong or if the media is telling you are wrong or even if you have suffered under the extremes of people who believe that witches are connected with pure evil and sacrificing babies, you have seen it. Even if you are in the broom closet, you have probably seen things, from both inside and outside the community, that indirectly pull at the foundations of your witchhood and tell you that you are wrong.
You are not wrong.
Of course, witchcraft is not for everyone. I don’t think anyone of us expects it to be. Even something as personal and diverse as magic and the many ways we tie it to our lives and our beliefs don’t match what every person needs. Nothing in the world, except maybe breathing, works the same way for everyone. Not everything can fit into the small sacred space in every person’s heart. Maybe you’ll even find that it isn’t what you need either. Maybe you’ll practice for decades. Maybe you’ll leave and return to that wild call of magic later in life. Maybe you’ll leave and never come back.
None of that is wrong.
No matter what other people tell you about their beliefs about who you are or what you should be within witchcraft or outside of it, you should focus on your own path. If that path takes you toward witchcraft, that’s great. If it takes you away from witchcraft, that’s ok, too. We all grow and change. Lift your chin and point yourself in whatever direction suits you now. You can always change course later.
Growing and changing is not wrong.
As witches specifically, we have a lot to stand up against. We stand up against the Wicked Witch of the West and her green skin and her cackle. We stand up against Sabrina Spellman’s latest trip into Satanism. We stand up against religious ideas that magic is evil. You should not have to stand up against yourself. You should stand up for yourself, for your practice, and for your magic.
Say it with me.
I am a witch.
I am not wrong.
And you are not wrong. You are not wrong for exploring something new. You are not wrong for loving circles and the moon and pretty rocks. You are not wrong for your passion for plants or myths or ancient deities. You are not wrong if you are in the broom closet or out of it. You are not wrong if you practice every day or one a month. You are not wrong for being a witch. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
