As I'm guessing most of us know, starting December 17th Tumblr will stop allowing NSFW content.
I'm just curious, what impact do you guys think it will have on the bondage community? There's obviously many more active bondage communities apart from that on Tumblr (DeviantArt, Fetlife, there's this one phpBB forum dedicated to it I think...), but it's not like it's a small blip in the bondage community as a whole.
Tumblr's NSFW crackdown
Tumblr's NSFW crackdown
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[mention]Sealed[/mention]. I think that some of the bondage community will still live on there as according to them they will only be removing what most other sites don't allow anyway. For example, they would not allow anything that depicts sex acts, and no real-life human genitalia, and female's presenting nipples anymore. But as far as I've heard written material that includes such will be fine. They do say that it will be an algorithm and that it may flag stuff that is allowed, but that would be reviewed as well to fix the problem. Overall though, if you are against this move, you can blame the people who are posting child porn to the site as that is the reason this is all starting. That is the reason it was banned on the apple store, and that is most likely the reason that the parent company of Verizon, who just bought it a couple of years ago is making this move. Overall though, again, many believe that Tumblr may be killing itself by doing this as many people are on there for adult content. I for one will just wait and see what happens in the future.
I don't think many kink people will stay - the NSFW algorithm has been fairly awful (lots of false positives) and there was an incident where all LGBT tags were marked NSFW, which left a pretty bad impression.
A lot of people are already on multiple platforms anyway - DeviantArt, Fetlife, Recon but it's a bit annoying as there was a lot of good content on Tumblr and the latter two sites don't work great for just sharing stuff (more for meetups).
A lot of people are already on multiple platforms anyway - DeviantArt, Fetlife, Recon but it's a bit annoying as there was a lot of good content on Tumblr and the latter two sites don't work great for just sharing stuff (more for meetups).
Looks like most of the NSFW content has been hidden by Tumblr, but not deleted. Most of the blogs I follow, I can only access through clicking on it in my followers list, otherwise it takes me to safe mode. Even if you get access, a lot of posts are blanked out as "sensitive."
However, there seems to be a way around that!
If you go on tumbex.com and visit the blog you wanted to see, everything is still there because it was only hidden, but not deleted. Not the most convenient thing in the world, but it seems as though we'll still be able to view everything on there as Tumblr has said they won't be deleting posts. Of course I'm sure many people are going to delete their blogs because of this, though.
However, there seems to be a way around that!
If you go on tumbex.com and visit the blog you wanted to see, everything is still there because it was only hidden, but not deleted. Not the most convenient thing in the world, but it seems as though we'll still be able to view everything on there as Tumblr has said they won't be deleting posts. Of course I'm sure many people are going to delete their blogs because of this, though.
Weirdly, a lot of my posts... aren't tagged as explicit? I tended to post less explicit content but that still feels weird.
We're clearly not meant to be there, so a log of people have deleted. But there is still a bit of content out there.
We're clearly not meant to be there, so a log of people have deleted. But there is still a bit of content out there.