It’s been noted that already some of the disability/chronic illness tags have been “accidentally” cleared. And there’s some speculation about posts related to those topics being flagged as well.
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We just created a new post based on one that has presumably been so flagged in the new rules. If you know of a post that’s been so flagged and want to be sure the information stays available here on tumblr and it’s relevant to the chronic pain, chronic illness, disability etc. communities- please feel free to tag us on the post and we will be glad to re-create it (crediting original creators, linking their blogs etc) here.
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We all know tumblr is horrible about setting and using their algorithms to “fix” things. We’re making a folder to save images (like those on the post previous to this one), and screenshots of relevant text. So if things ARE lost in this switchup, we here can easily recreate and repost them. We will not now or ever use or share that content ANYWHERE but here. EVER. .
Our goal from inception has been to be a resource for our community- and right now- that includes making a way to save posts that have such incredibly valuable information, connection and resources for our community.
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And now is a good time to make it clear- if trans folks want us to- we are glad to also do the same for posts about pre or post op that have been flagged and you are concerned about deletion.
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We have not posted adult content here. No judgement- We just aren’t here for that. BUT If your surgical (trans or otherwise frankly) content and imagery has been erroneously flagged (because we all know it IS erroneous) and you are worried about it being lost- LET US KNOW. We will add your post/images to the flagged folder and will gladly re-create it here to see if our lack of previous adult content can maybe fly it under tumblr’s new ridiculous radar.
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It matters. It matters that our community can share our experiences, our struggles, our successes, our discoveries. And for so many of us- that includes things like surgery, out-of-joint fingers and shoulders and hips, scars from wounds or procedures, and yes- sometimes things folks consider “gory” but that are often part of our experiences as people with chronic conditions.
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So if we have to become a clearinghouse to safely share and reshare and repost those experiences to avoid them being flagged and removed- then we will do that. We will ALWAYS tag the original poster (unless requested not to), we will ALWAYS include a note about material that isn’t ours (see the bottom of the previous post which is linked here).
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PSS is here. We are here. We understand and we believe it is absolutely vital that we’re able to continue connecting with each other- even if it means that we have to function as the connection point ourselves.
So obvs y’all have probably seen Tumblr go tits up today. I’m not too worried about getting deleted bc I don’t do the art thing and they say erotica type written shit is fine(for now, who knows how long that will last). But, if you look back at fandom history, it’s not promising. So…I’m probably gonna hang around for a while because I’ve built a community for myself here and as much as I hate this hellsite, I really love everyone here. (And lets be real, how else am I going to procrastinate entertain myself?) But I am also going to make a concerted effort to move over to other platforms going forward because this is some real bullshit and it does not sit well with me.
In the unlikely event my blog gets deleted, here’s where you can find me:
Pillowfort: EquusGirl (This will probably be the main platform I’ll start using once the site goes back online)
Dreamwidth: equusgirl
Insta: just_another_fake_geek_girl (not fandom related and mostly just a lot of my dogs and cats, but may soon include cosplay endeavors…who fuckin knows? Not me.)
AO3: EquusGirl0621
LiveJournal: equusgirl (another I’m not terribly active on but maybe?)
Feel free to ask for my snapchat and discord. (Don’t really do snapchat but I might try picking it up….) I have a twitter but given that that site is even more of a dumpster fire, I’m rarely over there and I actually hate it so I will not migrate over any time soon.
I hear a lot of people bitching that they can’t leave kudos multiple times per story, or can’t leave kudos on every chapter, or whatever.
Well, take a page out of this marvelous book, because I swear I’ve never been so happy to receive kudos as waking up to multiple people having done this on multiple chapters on a story I just posted.
The bar just got raised, folks.
Would… would writers be glad to read a comment, that is saying “kudos”?
We’re happy to get a smiley face, honestly. Leaving another kudos like this is great. Anything that tells us we aren’t just screaming into the void
^^^^^ This. Even the smallest comments are golddust.
Seconding, thirding, and fourthing all of this. Saying or typing anything is amazing.
writers are happy with anything that isn’t ‘update pls’ when you just uploaded. type the alphabet and we’ll be grinning like fools cuz ‘sames’.
Dang I know what to do now!!!!
Oh, but you can get creative with your extra kudos!
LOVE LOVE LOVE!
(✿◠‿◠) – “I heart this so much!!” ⊂◉‿◉つ – “OMG, the surprise was so sweet! ☆(❁‿❁)☆ – “AHH! Love it!” ≧◠‿◠≦ – “All the feels!” ٩(˘◡˘)۶ – “Woot!!” ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) – “I see what you did there and/or that smut was on point.” ┑(￣▽￣)┍ – “Sweet praises for you!” ლ(╹◡╹ლ) – “I love this story so hard, I get tingles when it updates!” ʘ‿ʘ – “WHat?!” (●⌒∇⌒●) – “Squee!!” (❁´◡`❁) – “Oh dear god, cavities!” (ﾉ´▽｀)ﾉ♪ – “This made me siiiinnnnnggggg!!” ┏(＾0＾)┛ – “Happy dance!” ヾ(＾∇＾) – “Wonderful fic! Thanks again!”
OMG sadface.
(┬＿┬) – “Literally crying, rn.” (^)o(^) – “Holy moly!” (◕﹏◕✿) – “How … how could you do this to me?!” ಥ‿ಥ – “I’m not crying you are!”
FLAMES!
ᕕ(◉Д◉ )ᕗ – “WTAF?!” (⊙…⊙,) – “Did yoU JUST.” ᕕ(˵•̀෴•́˵)ᕗ – “HOW DARE YOU! With my OWN EYES!” (ノ°Д°）ノ︵ ┻━┻ – “TABLE FLIP, you son-OF-A-!”
I canNOT with you!
(@[]@!!) – “WHAT IN THE HOLY HELL ARE YOU DOING?!” ＼(◎o◎)／！– “WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT.” (´･_･`) – “I do not know how I feel about this.”
2009 – GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites
2010 – FFN forums deleted
2011 – Delicious destroyed by Yahoo’s incompetence
2012 – major FFN crackdown on porn
2014 – Quizilla shuts down
2015 – Journalfen’s servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank
Didn’t quizilla have purges before finally shutting down? And I know basically every vidding home hot destroyed, repeatedly taking out the entire history of vidding online.
… they deleted Fandom Wank???
Well, not specifically. Journalfen failed completely and has never come back. FW was on Journalfen, so while you can see some entries on the Wayback machine, I think (?), the long comment threads aren’t archived.
2007 – Youtube starts using its “content ID” system to identify (and block) works that include copyrighted material in their database.
2009 – Greatestjournal shuts down, taking down fandom’s biggest collection of blog-style RPGs
2012 – Megaupload shut down by FBI; some (many?) fanvid archives lost
I thought there was also some kind of purge at Deviantart, but I don’t recall the details.
I’d like to remind folks that there was literally wank last month about why do we need the OTW.
Well, this would be why: we sincerely believed in the internet values of a decade or two ago, which involved owning our own servers if we wanted to see our projects remain stable, in the long term, online.
Worth mentioning: Yahoo purchased GeoCities, and was behind the decision to shut all those sites down.
Yahoo’s incompetence destroyed Delicious.
Yahoo owns Tumblr.
1356: 50% of monks.
People just… completely forget. I was there for all of the bans on fanfiction.net. You don’t know panic until you go to log in one morning and find out a bunch of your works have been deleted, gone forever, because some asshole arbitrarily decided that they wanted to ban something.
AO3 IS IMPORTANT. IT MATTERS.
2016 -y!gallery an archive of m/m art and stories, original and fanfiction was completely destroyed and all works were lost
Y!gallery itself was originally built in response to Sheezy art banning adult themes in 2005
Deviant Art in my experience says it doesn’t allow porn but will allow erotic art of women to reach the front page, straight male gaze gets a pass. Art focused on men is more likely to get deleted.
A lot of things destroyed by anti-porn rules are really anti-porn not made by and for straight men. It’s women’s and queer folks work that is demonized.
^^^^^ i actually tested this when i was on DA. I drew a bunch of s*xually e*plicit vag*nas and d*cks and the d*cks were removed within 24 hours. the vag*nas were never reported.
these bans are attacks on women and queer/LGBTQ people. the straight male gaze is apparently the only legitimate n sfw view
2010 ish (?) – deviantART purges adult fanfiction (I only very vaguely remember this one, because I’ve never been a dA user and it happened during my fannish hiatus, but there is some incomplete info on Fanlore. If you remember more about what happened, please help edit that page!)
Fandom purges are almost never just about one thing. Fannish content both relies on fair use exemption and is frequently sexually explicit, so it gets attacked on both copyright/legal grounds (thank you, OTW Legal Team, for protecting us!) and TOS/hoster rules about porn/specific fictional content (thank you, AO3, for being an open archive!). On top of that, there is a nontrivial history of fannish content being lumped in with content that criticizes authoritarian governments, and targeted by sweeps by those governments and their censorship agencies when they purchase or put pressure on the commercial entities that own the servers (thank you, OTW, for being a nonprofit and owning and defending our servers!).
If you care about fannish content, you have to fight for fanfic on all three fronts. And if we hop off of HTTP and onto one of the decentralized protocols like dat et cetera, like people are starting to talk about in response to Article 13 and the Tumblr purges, we will inevitably be targeted along with a) people pirating media, b) porn distributors, and c) anti-government protestors, because those groups are also going use those protocols, too. I’m not saying, don’t think about migrating. I’m saying: there is a systemic problem within fandom, regarding the fact that we routinely get hit on three fronts: legal rights to the material we transform, sexual content, and governmental disapproval. Protecting fandom means fighting for fandom on all three fronts and putting thought and effort into how to make an archive robust against all three prongs of the attack.
This is what’s made AO3/the OTW so special: we have lawyers protecting our right to make what we make, we have a TOS that protects our right to make things that are sexually explicit, and because the OTW is a nonprofit, it’s more robust to the pressure that can be brought to bear upon commercial entities by both corporate and governmental powers (though, I note, especially when it comes to governments, it’s not immune, and we have to keep actively protecting it, and we have to protect other fans). If you are in fandom but you think that copyright upload filters are fine, because, well, you don’t want to put fanvids on YouTube, you are part of the problem. Your community is under attack. The powers that be have always come for us by attacking us in pieces, and we have always only ever successfully fought back by banding together.
I personally don’t have a Pillowfort account yet, but my partner does and she has let me look at her account fully to see what it is like. I’ve also viewed Pillowfort’s demo account which is linked to on their Kickstarter. I am waiting with anticipation when I can make my own account, but right now Pillowfort is in a closed beta which means the only people who have access to the site are ones who have been given special registration links. They were doing waves of free beta accounts a bit ago (which is how my partner got her account), but right now for every $5 you pledge to their Kickstarter you will receive a registration key if the Kickstarter gets fully funded (they are as of today 40% of the way to their $39,900 goal).
Here is why I’m excited for Pillowfort:
If you delete your original posts, every reblogged version will be deleted too. Edit your original post and the changes will appear on every reblog,
The ability to make posts visible to everyone, just followers, just mutuals, or just yourself.
A functional blacklist where you can blacklist a post body & tags or just tags.
A terms of service that explicitly states you hold all rights to your own intellectual property. It also states clearly that it forbids callout posts, doxxing, degradation, harassing, hate groups, spamming of tags with unrelated or offensive material, and slurs against minorities. If there is a user that is doing anything offensive or hateful, it is encouraged and mandated you don’t make posts about it and instead flag it and let the site moderators take care of it. This sort of system cuts down on “dashboard drama” and harassment that sites like Tumblr are known for.
They have threaded comments which means discussions or praise no longer clog up your posts and your blog, keeping things much more organized and clean. We can also use tags for their ACTUAL purpose, tagging of posts for ease of search and organization instead of talking.
They have communities and a more connected user-based and user-led environment.
Posts in chronological order like they should be!
A staff that actually cares about the input of their members and is driven to listen and collaborate with their members to create a site that the users actually want instead of being led by a corporation that has their own agendas in mind.
A staff that wants to avoid corporate involvement, unwanted ads, and selling of user info to fund Pillowfort.
The future possibilities of what the staff can do with the site that we didn’t dream could be possible to have all in one place including accessibility and a functional mobile app.
So far, I’ve seen a lot of good things and I’ve been really impressed with how the staff is handling the site and how they have explained their plans for the future of Pillowfort.
If you say you really want a social media site that actually cares about their users, this is it. This is your chance to have what pretty much all of us want. This new blogging platform is all the best parts of Tumblr (and for those who miss Livejournal this is like a wedding between Tumblr and Livejournal) with all the parts we hate and loathe about the site scraped out of it.
If you can’t support Pillowfort monetarily, then please, please reblog, tweet, share, and spread it about everywhere you can.
This is our chance to have a social media made with us in mind and it’s already starting out so well with 10,000 users in the closed beta. Let’s bring it to the next stage of its life!
Okay, folks. So. Tumblr’s jumped the shark in a big way, and I’m not even just talking about indiscriminately blocking all “adult” content on a platform that IS, in fact, primarily 18+.
Many blogs, like the wonderful @blackkatmagic , that are not especially NSFW have vanished.
(And I for one LIKE being able to go to curated porn blogs run by actual people and have a chance of finding stuff to my taste, it was one of the things that kept me on this hellsite, but that’s another issue entirely.)
I know lots of people are talking about migrating, but none of us are sure to where yet. Pillowfort seems to be an option, some people are talking about Twitter. But for now, it’s a mess, and even if we knew where we were going, it’s often a huge process, and a lot of us have stuff on tumblr that ONLY exists there.
One possible quick solution to save your blogs, both NSFW and personal, is to import it to WordPress. I found this solution through from frantic googling on how to save an entire blog, text posts an all. There are several apps for downloading all the pictures from a tumblr, (Plently for Windows, but only a few paid ones for mac, of which Tumbelog Picture Downloader is working for me so far) but this is the only solution I’ve seen so far that allows you to save EVERYTHING. I downloaded my NSFW blog in like 10 min. My regular blog, which is significantly larger, is in the process of importing, but I don’t anticipate any problems. I will, of course, update you if I have any.
This tutorial I found worked really easily. http://quickguide (.) tumblr (.) com/post/39780378703/backing-up-your-tumblr-blog-to-wordpress
I put parenthesis around the .’s like we’re back in FF-Hell, just in case tumblr’s new thing about outgoing links kicks in. You know what to do.
To break it down, just in case:
Sign up for a WordPress.com account at wordpress (.) com/start
You’ll have to create an account, with your email, a username, and a password. They should send you a confirmation email immediately, check it, activate it, and you’re good to go.
On the site, it will ask you for a site name. That page asks you a bunch of other information too, but you only have to fill out the site name.
Then you have to give your site a URL. If you’re lucky, your tumblr URL is still available, if not you’ll have to come up with another one, sorry.
It will tell you if that option is still available for free.
Then it will ask you to pick a plan. Free is really good enough, I swear.
Now you’re set up! You can import your tumblr!
The only differences from the linked tutorial are that the Import button is now on the first level menu, not in tools.
Hit Import, then you have to follow the link for “other importers” at the bottom, to find the option for Tumblr.
Then you’ll have to sign in with tumblr, using your normal tumblr credentials. You’ll be redirected there automatically.
You’ll have to allow WordPress permissions on your blog.
Then your blogs, including all your sideblogs, will show up in wordpress.
Hit import, wait a WHILE depending on the size of your blog, and you’re done!
ALSO!!
I made my NSFW blog private for now, since I don’t know WP’s policy on NSFW.
This means that to access it, someone has to have an account and request access. But hey, part of our problem on this hellsite has been people going places they aren’t wanted, so I don’t personally see this as a bad thing. They can send a request from the landing site on your blog, you get an email, click a link in the email, and PRESTO, they have access.
To make it private, go to Settings > Reading > Site Visibility. Go back and check, it took me changing the setting twice for it to actually stick.
tl;dr, you can import your entire blog to wordpress in just a few steps.
I’m going to tag the hell out of this, in no particular order. PLEASE reblog this and spread the word so people know it’s an option. If you’re having trouble, PM me, and I’m happy to help.
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