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For everyone’s information:

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th
Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad
Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion
Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)
Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.
Open the app or website (including specific blogs)
Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)
Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.

detroitbsdboy

““Boom”“ “”Right On!”” ‘’VEL”” I’m Not Leaving ““Tumblr. But We Do Need TO MAKE A STAND! And Say We As! Adults ! … Should ! Be Able To Make Our Own Minds Up! If? We Want “Adult Content Or Not!!!!!…

yes-mr-hardhand

Time to stand up.

Source: yayroos

Tumblralt is a Tumblr alternative from engineers within Tumblr community

Himanshu Arora

December 12, 2018

News

NOTE: For all latest, breaking news related to Tumblr adult content ban as well as its alternatives, head here.

At first it seemed like there are a very few platforms for users (affected by Tumblr’s pornography content ban) to migrate to. The list only included a handful of names like Twitter, Reddit, Newgrounds, and Deviantart.

But then, new names started cropping up. Pillowfort, Suffra, Explicitr, Dark Cloud all got added to our detailed list of Tumblr alternatives recently. And now, we got tipped about another platform aiming to become a Tumblr replacement.

It’s called Tumblralt. We got tipped about this website on Twitter today. Take a look:

@PiunikaWeb https://t.co/myMztDxN5W is another tumblr alternative

— Derekmadisonmedia (@DMadisonMedia) December 11, 2018

If you try accessing the website, you’ll see nothing but the following message on its home page:

As you know, Tumblr has decided to wage war against freedom of expression due to the misguided actions of a few. We, a group of talented engineers from within the Tumblr community seek to create a space sans the binary thinking that has left us to no longer have a place to express ourselves freely. Sign up below and find out when we launch

So you see, the platform is being built by engineers from within the Tumblr community. As clear from the home page, at present, the platform isn’t ready. Those interested can leave their email address in that subscribe below in order to know when the launch happens.

Though there is no concrete information available, I am somehow getting the feeling that Tumblralt is that new, secret Tumblr alternative that we talked about a few days back. Reason being, information related to that platform was being spread on Tumblr itself, and Tumblralt is being built by some members of the Tumblr community. So there could be a link.

For your reference, here are the leaked screenshots containing information related to that secretive platform:

Coming back to Tumblralt, sadly, there’s nothing known about the platform as of now (apart from what that home page message says). We Googled a bit about Tumblralt and could only find a newly created Reddit profile which has been leaving links to tumblralt.com on Reddit threads discussing about Tumblr alternatives.

So it looks like promotions for the platform have just begun. Anyway, we have reached out to the Twitter profile which tipped us about Tumblralt, and will update the story as and when we have more information on the platform.

64cardinals

My Vision Of Our Tumblr Replacement

dominantlife

I started on Tumblr soon after it was created with a vanilla blog. Since then, hardly a day has gone by that Tumblr wasn’t a part of my life. I have made excellent friends on Tumblr over the years. In fact, MOST of my friends came from relationships I made via Tumblr. The precious, bubbly cupcake that is in my bed? Tumblr. So you can imagine how painful Tumblr’s announcement has been for me.

I love seeing the marginalized communities that are shunned elsewhere on Planet Earth have a safe place to exist and be themselves. It always made me smile when I see a Tumblr blogger ease out of their shells, steadfastly into the world.

Well, that shit is no more.

As some of you may have noticed I started a community effort to rescue these communities. I want everyone involved because it will be our garden, our club, our safe space to be ourselves.

And the new site (name to be withheld until we have something to show) is not just for kinksters, I want vanillas too; artists, witches, horror writers, brewmeisters, budtenders, book sluts, fandoms of all types, beat poets, wilderness photographers, Burners, vampire hunters, Dungeons and Dragons players, and rocket scientists. Hell, I want people who just want to blog about cats and cabins in the woods.

What we won’t tolerate are bullies, minors, Nazis (and their fucked up allies), abusers or trolls. They can fuck right off to a cesspool of their choice.

I am putting up the cash to get this started PLUS I am making this a community effort, that is why I am being so transparent about the process with our Discord planning group. Yes, it is chaos. We have taken on an INSANE project to get done in less than 2 weeks. Well, 9 days now.

This isn’t my first rodeo. I am actively trying to keep my anonymity as long as I can, but I know it will soon be spugged out in due order soon. You will then see what I have done in the past and learn about a very vanilla project that has been near and dear to my heart. You have probably heard of it and maybe even participated!

The beta site will not be perfect. It will be good but not perfect. Hell, we have been suffering with “far from perfect” with Tumblr now for years. It is my hope that our community can put up with our rough edges for a little while.

Where we are tonight is pretty good. We have selected a host, got our software loaded, installed the Linux packages required and are now getting those packages to play nice with one another. We had it working for a bit until a small issue with the registration page required some elbow work.

I am working on the branding and marketing with a bunch of really smart pervs in our Discord group. I am really proud of all of our volunteers and want to thank them all.

If you want to volunteer or simply eat popcorn and watch the porn riots, please use this invite link: https://discord.gg/jVempgb

Remember, Discord is just the site we are using for planning, not the actual site we are moving to.

Many of you have asked about the Library For Kinksters, it will be archived and placed on the now site.

We plan to allow you to import your Tumblr blog over to our new site but Tumblr may have other ideas. Other services have been using Tumblr’s API for exporting and now Tumblr now seems to be shutting down that API functionality.

That is all for now. Keep your heads held high and remember you are ALL FUCKING AMAZING PEOPLE!

- Dominant Life

P.S. Please reblog the shit out of this. Santa may drop a slutty elf off at your house for Christmas!

P.P.S. Oh and pirates. I really want pirates on the site too!

masterandslave

We have decided to help in this cause. I believe communities need to come together when adversity strikes them. No matter how far we might get.

You can do two things to help: