So of course the big thing everyone is talking about today is tumblr banning all adult content

[frelling_tralk]

Most of the user base don’t seem to have a clue where they want to move too now, I’ve seen the most references to MySpace actually, although I presume that’s mostly people joking? :P Must admit I don’t hate the thought of this giving fandom the final push to move away from tumblr, but nobody seems to have much of an idea of where they want to go

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[violateraindrop]

People seem to want to move to pillowfort which is still in a closed beta, so that's not really possible at the moment. Honestly, the reason why I never wanted to leave LJ for dreamwidth is the fact that you only have space for 15 user icons and you have to pay 1$ per extra icon or get a paid account for 35$ a year. I'm still on LJ for the icon community. For me, it seems silly to move, but I have lost some people on my flist after the last TOS update.

I came to LJ in 2007, so I honestly don't remember anything about the "big strikethrough" (I think that what it was called).

To be honest, I had no idea that there is soooo much porn on tumblr. I follow fandom blogs, either run by teams dedicated to one fandom or random blogs that share the same interests.
Nazis on the other I've come across, but tumblr doesn't seem to care about them.

[frelling_tralk]

Lol yeah I’m the exact same, it’s hard for me to consider leaving LJ for DW because over here I have a permanent account with over 200 icon spaces. DW feels like going backwards to only have space for 15, plus limits on other things like how many entries and comments you can subscribe too

[violateraindrop]

Last time I browsed the tags for the show Nikita, I did come across a massive closeup of some woman’s asshole :(
Ugh, that also happened to me with completely unrelated things. I barely go into tags anymore. The worst was probably trying to find blogs for the NBC show Good Girls.

[frelling_tralk]

I definitely learned to avoid the tags after that! Saying that, I’ve had the same thing on LJ a couple of times as well with communities being hacked and suddenly finding naked women all over my flist, although that was probably a couple of years ago now. I gusss we’re not even relevant enough to hack any more :P

[_profiterole_]

I'm not on DW, but I hope this'll bring more activity to DW, and then to LJ through crossposting. I've seen it today, but it might not last long. Who knows?

[frelling_tralk]

Honestly I think that LJ’s rep is too tarnished at the moment, people just think of strikethrough and the ~scary Russians~ owning it now, I can’t imagine people wary of censorship leaving tumblr for LJ sadly. It probably will attract a few new users to DW though, although whether they will stick around or not who knows, because the platforms are set up pretty differently. Tumblr is so much about having a whole stream of content to browse through and never really stopping to take any of it it, whereas word-based blogs just aren’t really like that, I think that DW will prove to be a bit too slow for younger members of fandom. Maybe if communities become more active it could work out though idk

[mazephoenix]

I wasn't there for Strikethru but this is terrible. My fandom is probably moving to..who knows? twitter? Dw? In the end only the pornbots will stay on tumblr winking at each other through a barren wasteland where once fandom bloomed.

[frelling_tralk]

Nobody seems to know where to move at the moment, I think the problem is they will likely find the same issues wherever they move too if they are vocal about wanting to find a platform that will welcome all adult content without censorship. Most platforms are going to balk at that when they rely on keeping the advertisers happy, I think that DreamWidth even had trouble with PayPal working with them at one point because they refused to remove any of the user content?

I think that either DW or pillowfort are probably the best option if you want to be entirely free of censorship, although I’m not sure if either platform is actually build for the huge number of users that tumblr hosted on their servers

[bm_shipper]

*shrugs* Thank god I never gave a damn about tumblr. Tried it once, but it wasn't for me. I never understood the appeal of it, and I never will...

[frelling_tralk]

I use it for reblogging gifs and fanart occasionally, but I’ve never felt very connected to the community over there either, maybe it’s more appealing for people who are heavily into graphics, but I always preferred having discussions on LJ.

[kazzy_cee]

The strike through as I remember it was about Incest and underage sex either in images or written. It was never focussed on LGBT specifically. It unfortunately was very heavy handed and started to delete support journals for breast feeding mums and young children discussion forums which were wholly innocent. It also got rid of support journals for abuse. By the time they had corrected their errors a lot of people had left. Having said that porn is everywhere and if owners of forums don’t accept that they are very blinkered.

[frelling_tralk]

I think I vaguely remember one of the issues being that icons of breastfeeding were also being banned? They did eventually back down, but yes it’s a shame that strikethrough has become such a notorious example for LJ, even though I don’t think they handled it that much worse than any other platform would at first that wasn’t really familiar with how fandom worked. SixApart were the owners then from what I remember (was that their name?) I don’t want to come across like I’m making excuses, but quite honestly I imagine that some of the fanwork that fandom produced must seem quite bizarre to an outsider. They were definitely very heavy handed in how they went about it though, I think getting flagged as hosting child pornography by an outside source is what got them overtly determined to clean up the entire site and get rid of any possible nudity or sexuality