arkadycosplay:

From someone who’s survived MySpace, livejournal, deviantart, and fanfiction.nets’ content purges and bad policy updates, here’s some advice on how to get through tumblr’s recent bullshit:

– don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.

– archive everything on your blog you want to keep

– tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.

– tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.

– go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.

– support places like ao3. This is exactly why ao3 asks for donations a few times a year. They are a 100% anti-purging, judgement free, ad free non profit run by an elected board and protected by lawyers. Places like ao3 literally save fandom so please continue to support them and other similar archives. This is exactly why ao3 is so important.

magicalbluelightning:

magicalbluelightning:

I’m currently planning to stay on tumblr until hell freezes over (however soon that is, I’m not sure), but for anyone leaving, or if I do ever end up leaving, here’s my info:

Twitter: @AnastenLights

Alternate/Personal Twitter: @Lightningbi 

Instagram (I’m most active here aside from tumblr): @AnastenLights 

Telegram: AnastenLights 

Flight Rising: AnastenLights

Discord (I’m accepting most friend requests for the next few weeks, this is the best place to get ahold of me for now): AnastenLights#3258

Ao3: AnastenLights

Steam: MagicalBlue or AnastenLights, not sure which one it is or how to tell

If I have a FurAffinity it’ll be AnastenLights but even if I do have one I honestly have no fucking clue when the last time I logged on was.

I suppose I could also say- if there’s someone with the username AnastenLights, Magicalblue/Magicalbluelightining/something with blue, magic, & lightning, it’s more than probably going to be me!

I also run a ninjago art discord! 

And there’ll be a general art/writing/etc discord up later tonight once I’m done with classes!

sundanceritz:

Anyway the last point I have to make here is that even if tumblr breaks under the algorithm (almost certain if they don’t back out of using it) and/or everybody leaves… I don’t have anywhere else to go or post things

people like to joke about it being bad, but I legitimately really like Tumblr. it actually feels like a blogging platform in a world where facebook and twitter are active political weapons that manipulate us elections. i don’t feel like i’m baring myself to content i don’t want to see here, or having to engage with a popularity-focused culture. the content isn’t sorted to influence you or trick you. it’s a bunch of people being themselves on their own terms. it’s oldnet.

yes, i do use other websites, but i’m not interested in posting personal things to any of them. this was a place i had control over and i’ll stay with it until i can’t. and when that happens there’ll be nothing left.

gaytotodile:

the-space-misanthropist:

gaytotodile:

what social media platform are we all collectively moving to

hell

great!!!! see you there my dude

weirdfur:

apricotjackal:

sly-cooper:

tammycat:

the tag “fur-ry” (minus the dash) is among those in the site-side blacklist, and is why so much artwork and so many blogs are suddenly invisible from the search.

provided this isn’t a temporary measure, i strongly advise to remove the “fur-ry” tag and use stand-in tags such as “anthro” and “kemono”, since neither are affected. 

the New Xkit extension “Tag Replacer” is an easy way to swap your tags over, and you can change it back if this issue gets resolved!

for any artists who may be wondering:

blacklisted
furry
furries
cleanfur
cleanfurs
female furry
femfurry
furry male
furry female

unaffected
anthro
anthro art
anthropomorphic
avian
clean furry
cleanfurry
cute furry
femalefurry
furry art
furryart
furry oc
furry sfw
furry fandom
furryfandom
fursona
fursona art
kemono
male furry
scalie
sfw furry
sfwfurry
safe fur work

there’s a good chance i’ve missed a few, but hopefully, this can make things a bit easier to manage

Reblogging this because a lot of blogs are affected. If people can’t search for your work this is why. Going to have to spend some time this weekend to fix the tags on my posts too.

Still don’t understand staff’s point with all of this