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cimoreneA new Tumblr announcement just banned photographic NSFW of genitals, sex acts, and "female-presenting nipples" (this is not a joke), so I think the speed of implosion is escalating. (See Gavia's explosive article at The Daily Dot.)
There's a lot of panicked misunderstanding at this point from people with the erroneous idea that all adult content is banned. Since the announcement explicitly says that text-based and sculptures, drawings, etc are still acceptable, this leaves most fanwork activities (with the exception, of course, of certain scenes in plenty of canons...) intact. So probably everyone doesn't need to leave yet, and probably once word goes around about what it actually says and the dust settles, they won't.
Edit: No, sorry, that's wrong, even artistic illustrations depicting sex acts aren't allowed now. It's non-sex-act nudity (that is, nipples and genitals) that can be depicted but not photographed. And actually that does disallow a huge range of fanart, not to mention fine art, so... ???
On the other hand, this is hardly a good sign, especially if we compare it to the trajectory of livejournal or ff.net.
My last post on the decentralized net wasn't meant as a suggestion that people go out and create rotonde, fritter, or scuttlebutt accounts to serve as actual network backups, more... this is there now and we can expect more stuff to come into existence, with fans building some of it, and some of you may or may not be involved in the construction of that. I am not a programmer, but I'm guessing we are pretty far out from anybody actually having a new solution up and running.
We have plenty of places where fannish people can make accounts, but nowhere else where fannish people can make image-, video, and multimedia posts in an easy visual interface and share them with friendslists. And reblog stuff. Or have nice threaded comment discussions with plenty of tools for the OP (that's DW, not Tumblr, obviously, but we all live in hope).
In the meantime, I hope the traffic of people downloading backups of their Tumblrs doesn't get too heavy. "Export your blog" is an option at the bottom of the page after you open Settings and select your blog from the sidebar, by the way.
The announcement (note misunderstandings and panic ballooning in the comments).
The new community guidelines.
Tumblr's Adult Content policy.
There's a lot of panicked misunderstanding at this point from people with the erroneous idea that all adult content is banned. Since the announcement explicitly says that text-based and sculptures, drawings, etc are still acceptable, this leaves most fanwork activities (with the exception, of course, of certain scenes in plenty of canons...) intact. So probably everyone doesn't need to leave yet, and probably once word goes around about what it actually says and the dust settles, they won't.
Edit: No, sorry, that's wrong, even artistic illustrations depicting sex acts aren't allowed now. It's non-sex-act nudity (that is, nipples and genitals) that can be depicted but not photographed. And actually that does disallow a huge range of fanart, not to mention fine art, so... ???
On the other hand, this is hardly a good sign, especially if we compare it to the trajectory of livejournal or ff.net.
My last post on the decentralized net wasn't meant as a suggestion that people go out and create rotonde, fritter, or scuttlebutt accounts to serve as actual network backups, more... this is there now and we can expect more stuff to come into existence, with fans building some of it, and some of you may or may not be involved in the construction of that. I am not a programmer, but I'm guessing we are pretty far out from anybody actually having a new solution up and running.
We have plenty of places where fannish people can make accounts, but nowhere else where fannish people can make image-, video, and multimedia posts in an easy visual interface and share them with friendslists. And reblog stuff. Or have nice threaded comment discussions with plenty of tools for the OP (that's DW, not Tumblr, obviously, but we all live in hope).
In the meantime, I hope the traffic of people downloading backups of their Tumblrs doesn't get too heavy. "Export your blog" is an option at the bottom of the page after you open Settings and select your blog from the sidebar, by the way.
The announcement (note misunderstandings and panic ballooning in the comments).
The new community guidelines.
Tumblr's Adult Content policy.
