about the tumblr 'purge'
Dec. 18th, 2018 07:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dickinsonsIt might be too soon to say this, but at the moment I don't think Tumblr is gonna be as abandoned as it could have been. Many people are sticking around. I haven't posted anything in a few days, I think, but I haven't deleted my account either... And you know what? I don't really get why we have been so passive to all the shit we've had to see on Tumblr.
Don't get me wrong, I think everyone who has used Tumblr for a few years (I joined Tumblr on 2011) has had many great experiences there and met amazing people. Of course we have. But there were many times when the features we liked were changed in a way we didn't like, or the site maybe was literally broken for hours, etc. And for months now we've had to deal with pornbots reblogging all posts and adding their fucking links there, literally making it impossible for you to check the actual comments that people reblog posts with because 99% of them were pornbots. Then the app was deleted from app stores because people were using Tumblr to spread child pornography, and only then they decide todo something about it? Which, fair, at least they are doing something now, but it's such a bad move the post staff published that was supposed to be an example of what is permitted to be published under the new policy was FLAGGED. Oh, the irony.
My point is, I don't know what has to happen for people to really leave the site entirely. I like DW, I think I'm gonna stick around for a while, but I can't speak for everyone.
Don't get me wrong, I think everyone who has used Tumblr for a few years (I joined Tumblr on 2011) has had many great experiences there and met amazing people. Of course we have. But there were many times when the features we liked were changed in a way we didn't like, or the site maybe was literally broken for hours, etc. And for months now we've had to deal with pornbots reblogging all posts and adding their fucking links there, literally making it impossible for you to check the actual comments that people reblog posts with because 99% of them were pornbots. Then the app was deleted from app stores because people were using Tumblr to spread child pornography, and only then they decide todo something about it? Which, fair, at least they are doing something now, but it's such a bad move the post staff published that was supposed to be an example of what is permitted to be published under the new policy was FLAGGED. Oh, the irony.
My point is, I don't know what has to happen for people to really leave the site entirely. I like DW, I think I'm gonna stick around for a while, but I can't speak for everyone.
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Date: 2018-12-20 12:26 am (UTC)I kind of think Tumblr will be limping along for at least another year or two before fandom abandons it entirely, porn ban or no.
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Date: 2018-12-20 10:43 am (UTC)Maybe when fandom finally decides to settle for another option and when Tumblr keeps doing more shit like this (which I don't doubt they will), in a few years, as you say, people will abandon it.