We've gained tens of thousands of users in a few days from a single user post, and several user posts have accumulated 50,000+ notes. This is all thanks to the strong accessibility groups around ADHD and dyslexia that exist on Tumblr.
I've spent (wasted) time and money on FB ads, and I wish that I could have advertised on Tumblr. Unfortunately, every time I tried, they only wanted big brands with $25k minimum spend.
My startup is BeeLine Reader [1], which launched via an unexpectedly successful Show HN. Our Tumblr page is not very impressive — almost all of the traction there was from organic user posts.
Thr hugh amouts of porn give creatives a certain security that their works won‘t be deleted for nudity and such.
The content you see on Tumblr is determined by who you follow. If you use Tumblr and only see porn, it's because you're only looking for porn.
The internet is for porn, goes the song from musical Avenue Q. Since Tumblr announced this week that it will no longer be part of that internet, many users are mounting an exodus to existing networks like still-freewheeling Twitter, as well as efforts to build a new kind of Tumblr, the kind of Tumblr that Tumblr had been until now. There were people sharing their discovery of their sexuality. There were people sharing the journey of themselves going through hard times, says LolaBohemia, a professional dominatrix from Florida. ...
The platform's ban on visuals of adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions), which officially begins on December 17, has already flooded bloggers inboxes with automated alerts about suspect images, videos, and GIFs. ... In addition to flagging visuals, Tumblr seems to have filtered its searches. Hashtags like BDSM now return no results at all. No erotica or other text appears either, despite Tumblr's assurance that the new content rules don't apply to text posts.
There is an appeals process for flagged items, and its unclear how much content will ultimately be blocked although straight-up porn certainly will be. Many adult bloggers get the sense that they are no longer wanted. There are [sic] no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content, wrote Tumblr's CEO.
Tribe and Experience Project also went sex-free. They're both gone now.
Yup, shit site, don't go folks.
I had some of my content censored following the acquisition by Yahoo. It happened to other folk too. I really wish there wouldn't be this shame around bodies, sexuality and gender identity that companies enforce with their censorship algorithms.
Verizon, having acquired Tumblr, had a problem. Their own "Verizon Smart Family"[1] censoring system would now be blocking their own site.
[1] https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/verizon-smart-family...
Seems like it could increase the barrier of entry significantly while simultaneously giving access to new, less saturated markets?
Sounds like crazy talk, but why has porn suddenly become such a big deal?
Even before internet, porn has been readily accessible for decades, so why does it suddenly become a problem big enough that companies seems willing to loose their entire business to filter out a specific class of content?
The only reasonable explanation is that they are seizing the opportunity, one possibly created on purpose, to enact realignment to new markets without getting all the flak themselves.
It might be used as a substitute but the people that stuck to Tumblr this long probably consciously chose not to move to reddit.
For now. Twitter is subject to SESTA and FOSTA just like Tumblr and Facebook are, so it's only a matter of time before they follow suit.