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Tumblr Purge: General Thoughts
Dec. 5th, 2018 01:28 pmI felt like writing a bit about how I feel about the Tumblr Purge, so, in random order, here are some thoughts.
1. I feel like there's this assumption from people on other platforms that those of us leaving Tumblr are doing so because we can't get porn on the site anymore? It's a fair assumption, but it's not an accurate one. Not while Tumblr's bot system is flagging SFW posts.
How do you share art when any picture with skin is flagged?
2. Tumblr's been falling apart for a while now, and I think those of us on it were just counting down until it crashed and burned. I really feel that staff on Tumblr isn't really invested in the platform; I suspect that the only reason it exists now is because it provides some rudimentary income.
There's this idea I've seen floating around that one day, Staff will realize that they've kicked everyone off of Tumblr, and they'll regret their terrible decisions? Except I'm not sure that anyone in Yahoo actually *cares* what happens to the platform.
Hence why it's falling apart.
3. It's too bad that Tumblr *is* crashing, because I feel that a lot of people- myself included- were able to use it as a way of consistently exposing ourselves to new and different kinds of content, in a way that's hard to do on other sites. Tumblr exposed me to leftist theory and commentary, taught me about the history of LGBT people in the US, and provided easy-to-access communities focused around niche interests.
In some ways, it was actually a really useful source of learning and information! It's just... no longer Like That.
4. It's worth noting that while Tumblr is cracking down on NSFW posts (whether or not those posts are *actually* nsfw or not), it's done nothing about the radical right. And that... is only to be expected, I suppose, but it's still exhausting to see.
1. I feel like there's this assumption from people on other platforms that those of us leaving Tumblr are doing so because we can't get porn on the site anymore? It's a fair assumption, but it's not an accurate one. Not while Tumblr's bot system is flagging SFW posts.
How do you share art when any picture with skin is flagged?
2. Tumblr's been falling apart for a while now, and I think those of us on it were just counting down until it crashed and burned. I really feel that staff on Tumblr isn't really invested in the platform; I suspect that the only reason it exists now is because it provides some rudimentary income.
There's this idea I've seen floating around that one day, Staff will realize that they've kicked everyone off of Tumblr, and they'll regret their terrible decisions? Except I'm not sure that anyone in Yahoo actually *cares* what happens to the platform.
Hence why it's falling apart.
3. It's too bad that Tumblr *is* crashing, because I feel that a lot of people- myself included- were able to use it as a way of consistently exposing ourselves to new and different kinds of content, in a way that's hard to do on other sites. Tumblr exposed me to leftist theory and commentary, taught me about the history of LGBT people in the US, and provided easy-to-access communities focused around niche interests.
In some ways, it was actually a really useful source of learning and information! It's just... no longer Like That.
4. It's worth noting that while Tumblr is cracking down on NSFW posts (whether or not those posts are *actually* nsfw or not), it's done nothing about the radical right. And that... is only to be expected, I suppose, but it's still exhausting to see.
