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.
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
poizen.me – gorgeous website designed for artists to post art AND track comms
this one’s still in alpha 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
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
pillowfort.io – still in beta, but should function almost identically to tumblr
typepad.com – similar to wordpress but with reblogging and a dash
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.
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!
some notes
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.
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The search for a new home continues. I feel like I’m in an episode of Battlestar Galactica.
It says health care providers and media should say ‘zero risk’, i.e. When someone is HIV positive and has an undetectable viral load, they have zero risk of passing it on.
Yes indeed no nudity but you can find all the discriminatory and hate speech you want!
But wait, the icing on the cake…
…really? Do i need even say anything.
since this place is going down the shitter, why not reblog this?
Here’s an extra layer of gross
I may be wearing a tin foil hat, but I think they purposely want to do stuff like pit BLM against White Supremacists. They see it as an opportunity to make money.
* This statistic shows the number of global unique visitors to the social network Tumblr.com from February 2018 to October 2018. As of that month, the social website had over 558 million unique visitors worldwide, down from 617 million in April 2018 (source)
I started @purgethebots in July when porn bots started to poison this platform. It seriously impacted my Tumblr experience. I can imagine that’s why so many people left Tumblr and the numbers above back this up.
Porn is not a bad thing. But it is a HUGE market and people who want to make money go where they can reach their target audience. Most social media do not allow porn because there are always people who will abuse the platform using bots. Now, Tumblr didn’t mind adult content and the moderate amount of bots at first. According to the statistics, the number of unique visitors seemed steady until July. But then BAM, le Porn Bot Apocalypse.
I think this is the real reason why staff has decided to ban porn: to save Tumblr. It just didn’t work out that well. And the content filter is TERRIBLE.
It’s sad there isn’t a better way to fight the bots. Even Youtube, worth billions, don’t know how to combat the spam in the comment section. Porn is not the problem. The bots are.
Personally, I will stay on Tumblr. I understand why many people are leaving. But I wasn’t on Tumblr for adult content, and I think a Tumblr with fewer bots will improve my overall experience. Though I am going to miss the occasional porn on my dash. A lot.
A lot of people leave Tumblr because of the bots. A decline in users results in a decline in ad revenue as companies pay for eyeballs. And of course, it’s about the ad revenue. Tumblr is a for-profit business. It has nothing to do with ethics and companies not wanting to advertise on a platform were porn prevails. If that was the case, Tumblr would have made this change years ago. The decline in users and the porn bot apocalypse happened at the same. I doubt that is a coincidence.
Give me Sodomy, or give me Death 