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Anonymous asked:
So, this new thing you guys are working on? Would it still be accessible for people who are mostly SFW stuff, but would like to see some NSFW occasionally and run from the horrible heap of trash Tumblr has become?
dominantlife answered:
OH HELL YEAH!
If you just want to post foodie recipes and add a bit of female presenting nipples to your dash, we are OK with that.
And the pirates are ok with that too!
(As are the ninjas, but they are invisible.)
IMPORTANT: the real reason tumblr is enacting an adult content ban - and no, it isn’t because of ad space.
I have seen many petitions flying around and have signed some myself. However, the main issue isn’t tumblr, the App Store, or even Verizon’s wish to monitize ad space.
The issue is the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) and Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) packaged set of bills. These bills were passed in April 2018 in US Congress, where websites are now liable for their content posted by 3rd parties - and can be sued if someone uses their website to solicit sex.
There’s been articles on this for a while, but they have gotten no where near as much publicity as needed - especially because it was a US bill that was passed rather than an international one. However, the effect it has internationally is widespread. No matter where you are, if you are an internet user, these bills WILL affect you.
It has directly affected websites and platforms such as Craigslist, Reddit, Microsoft, Instagram, etc., and is now affecting websites like Tumblr, Facebook, and more than likely Twitter and other platforms soon. The terms and conditions of these sites are very unlikely to change much if at all after they change to meet the current guidelines. It has affected third party users and has even been reported to have affected police in a negative way. The majority of articles on the bill are not written with positivity towards it, and it has been a controversial bill since the beginning.
This issue is not isolated to Tumblr, and even if you leave this website and switch to another, the rules will be similar or will soon be so. If you’ve been here for a long time - sure, open up some other accounts. However, I wouldn’t be so eager to jump ship - you’ll end up in the same waters.
FOSTA/SETSA has compromised section 230 of the 1996 CDA (Communications and Decency Act), which is known to have been the section that has given us the internet we have today by being a major part of internet freedom and protecting freedom of speech and expression online (by protecting hosts from being ultimately liable for third party content). There is speculation that in the future there will be more attempts made to make more acceptions or “poke holes” in section 230.
This packaged bill is what needs to be targeted by internet users internationally, and especially by US citizens as it is the US government who has put this into law. Due to lack of knowledge about this bill, previous petitions did not meet the required amount of attention. This bill is not only directly affecting tumblr, but is affecting the internet as a whole and it’s time to focus on the root of the cause.
In Summary:
- THIS ISSUE IS NOT ISOLATED TO TUMBLR.
- The adult content ban by Tumblr is NOT caused by the website curators or the Apple App Store.
- The main cause of the adult content ban is NOT Verizon trying to monitize ad space, but requirements by the US FOSTA/SESTA combined bill.
- FOSTA/SESTA has poked a hole in the 1996 CDA, section 230 which protects web hosts from being liable by content posted by 3rd parties.
- Now, websites will be liable and can be sued for content posted by their users, notably in relation to the solicitation of sex.
- It is speculated that further attempts will he made to break down parts of section 230.
- Although it is a US Bill, it affects the entire World Wide Web. This new joint bill has directly impacted several other websites and continues to do so.
- Due to lack of public knowledge, previous petitions did not meet requirements.
- FOSTA/SESTA repeal needs to be the main focus by tumblr users and social networking sites as a whole.
So, what can be done?
- Read this tweet, and thread from twitter user Aditya Mukerjee (@chimeracoder) for more information on what you can do, and more information about what is going on.
- Please, share this info. If you have additional information on this, or what US and intentational citizens can do to help with a repeal, please reblog this post and add it.
If I can get an adult version of something kinda like Tumblr up and running, would you guys be interested?
Mostly same features but with extra features like…
No bullying.
No kids.
No one under 18.
Stronger blocking tools.
All the female associated nipples you can handle.
Please let me know and PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!!
All genders and orientations would be welcomed.
More like Tumblr and less like Fet.
Yeeeees!
Go on…
I’m interested
Go on …
Run with it! Sound idea
Yes please!!
Reblog this.
More like Tumblr and less like Fet? Sign me up!
Agreed! @crusoesampersand….. Tried Fet once, scared the beejeesus out of me…..
@crusoesampersand keep me informed!
i’m in
Let us know how we can help
For now, get the word out!
I have the domain registered and the corporate site.
I will reveal them here once they have propagated and I have something for you guys to see.
Absolutely
@dominantlife has a plan!
Someone is on to something!
Just wondering how you are gonna manage servers and the payment of them? What’s the pricing model like? Could you elaborate..?
Will be using cloud storage for the image content.
I am not sure what the pricing model will look like. I want to have a free model and I am working on a way to achieve that. It will be damn hard to do, not impossible, but hard.
If there are any developers here that want to help test, PLEASE send me a message. I plan to start testing on Wednesday of this week.
HAIR ON FIRE TIME!
Tumblreplacement - Day 6
It hasn’t been a week since Tumblr completely shit the bed with their new ban on “female-presenting nipples.”
But this just doesn’t effect women, it has an impact on us all. We are slowly witnessing the disappearance of the freedom of speech. It has been a slow encroachment on us. While we have BEGGED Tumblr, until we are bleeding out of our eyes, for their staff to take bullying seriously, to take stalking seriously, to take copyright seriously. Nope, they focused on nipples, specifically female nipples.
And I am not the only one that has taken issue with their total blind approach to customer service. So has The Guardian, Gizmodo, Washington Post, BBC, another from The Guardian, Huffington Post, CNN Business, another from Gizmodo, Wired, Slate, SYFY Wire, Buzzfeed, even Wil Wheaton is pissed off. @wilwheaton for those who don’t follow him, he is like my social media spirit animal.
If you read through all of those articles, you get a sense of the complete impact of this ban. I even had a link that pointed to an article critical of Tumblr’s decision flagged for removal. So the ban on speech has clearly moved into the political.
The site we are working on is heading to become a safe place for everyone, especially those trying to overcome mental health issues and acceptance, endless cat memes, car blogs, fans, fandoms and more fandoms. Yes, we will always have that wink-to-kink, but that can’t be our total world. Yes, this whole started as a reaction to the banning of adult content but it is NOT just about adult content, that was just the last straw. We all have been on the ass end of Tumblr’s hateful and mean-spirited policies for years. Last week, it all came to a rather frothy head with “female-presenting nipples.” Clearly Yahoo’s Board of Directors are in charge, not the adults. Adults seem to be in limited supply in Tumblr’s C-Suites these days. Kinda like Congress, but that rant I don’t have time for today.
But back to the replacement site… here are some updates;
- We found a host, we have CMS software installed, we have the dependency packages installed and we are working on getting all the bits and bobs to play well together.
- A landing page will be up tomorrow. I have been threatened by an army of tickle bears to have this done. It may not be our final URL, but it will do for now.
- The site name will not be kink specific, it will be welcoming to all; from grandmas with recipes to fanfic writers to evolutionary microbiologists… then nipples - endless waves of nipples that will threaten to drown you in their nippily and buttery goodness.
- We have a channel for those looking for volunteer jobs.
- Also looking for graphic artists with a branding background to work on logo proposals. See the group for details.
- We are plotting, planning and scheming all of this on a Discord server. Follow this link to find us: https://discord.gg/z3SQJjB
If that link doesn’t work, go to Discord and open an account, then try the link again. If it STILL doesn’t work, wait a bit and try again. Some people have had to do this three times to get in. This is a Discord issue and the only workaround I know of is just to keep trying.
Lastly, a special shoutout to all you pirates! I love you ninjas too, but you guys love your invisibility powers and I can never see you… until it is too late.
Maybe the army of tickle bears are really ninjas masquerading as tickle bears. Hell, I don’t EVEN know what is going on in my life anymore.
My Vision Of Our Tumblr Replacement
I started on Tumblr soon after it was created with a vanilla blog. Since then, hardly a day has gone by that Tumblr wasn’t a part of my life. I have made excellent friends on Tumblr over the years. In fact, MOST of my friends came from relationships I made via Tumblr. The precious, bubbly cupcake that is in my bed? Tumblr. So you can imagine how painful Tumblr’s announcement has been for me.
I love seeing the marginalized communities that are shunned elsewhere on Planet Earth have a safe place to exist and be themselves. It always made me smile when I see a Tumblr blogger ease out of their shells, steadfastly into the world.
Well, that shit is no more.
As some of you may have noticed I started a community effort to rescue these communities. I want everyone involved because it will be our garden, our club, our safe space to be ourselves.
And the new site (name to be withheld until we have something to show) is not just for kinksters, I want vanillas too; artists, witches, horror writers, brewmeisters, budtenders, book sluts, fandoms of all types, beat poets, wilderness photographers, Burners, vampire hunters, Dungeons and Dragons players, and rocket scientists. Hell, I want people who just want to blog about cats and cabins in the woods.
What we won’t tolerate are bullies, minors, Nazis (and their fucked up allies), abusers or trolls. They can fuck right off to a cesspool of their choice.
I am putting up the cash to get this started PLUS I am making this a community effort, that is why I am being so transparent about the process with our Discord planning group. Yes, it is chaos. We have taken on an INSANE project to get done in less than 2 weeks. Well, 9 days now.
This isn’t my first rodeo. I am actively trying to keep my anonymity as long as I can, but I know it will soon be spugged out in due order soon. You will then see what I have done in the past and learn about a very vanilla project that has been near and dear to my heart. You have probably heard of it and maybe even participated!
The beta site will not be perfect. It will be good but not perfect. Hell, we have been suffering with “far from perfect” with Tumblr now for years. It is my hope that our community can put up with our rough edges for a little while.
Where we are tonight is pretty good. We have selected a host, got our software loaded, installed the Linux packages required and are now getting those packages to play nice with one another. We had it working for a bit until a small issue with the registration page required some elbow work.
I am working on the branding and marketing with a bunch of really smart pervs in our Discord group. I am really proud of all of our volunteers and want to thank them all.
If you want to volunteer or simply eat popcorn and watch the porn riots, please use this invite link: https://discord.gg/jVempgb
Remember, Discord is just the site we are using for planning, not the actual site we are moving to.
Many of you have asked about the Library For Kinksters, it will be archived and placed on the now site.
We plan to allow you to import your Tumblr blog over to our new site but Tumblr may have other ideas. Other services have been using Tumblr’s API for exporting and now Tumblr now seems to be shutting down that API functionality.
That is all for now. Keep your heads held high and remember you are ALL FUCKING AMAZING PEOPLE!
- Dominant Life
P.S. Please reblog the shit out of this. Santa may drop a slutty elf off at your house for Christmas!
P.P.S. Oh and pirates. I really want pirates on the site too!