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[youarenotthewalrus]

And sure enough, it's been over a month since Tumblr became NSFNSFW and almost a month since I last posted here. The exodus has, at least in my circles, largely failed to occur. On the one hand, I am glad. Tumblr is easy, it is convenient, it is familiar, and no other website I use is really a good substitute for it. On the other hand? It is disappointing. A major social media site makes a decision millions of its users vehemently disapprove of, there is a great uproar, and then... seemingly nothing happens. Everyone stays on it, the policy remains in place. Fucking networking effects. I tire of having so many Internet spaces tied to giant faceless corporations who can fuck with us at their whim. How many thousands of artists and sex workers got thrown under the bus because some dipshit at Verizon thought the site would be more appealing to advertisers if they got rid of the porn?

Perhaps we should have more federated social media in the mode of Mastodon, so that if the main Tumblr instance banned porn everyone could just move to other Tumblr instances that still had porn while still being able to follow the same people and use the same platform. God only knows how we get to that point, though. Trust-busting?

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[flaksesomlys]

Seems like it did have an effect on some users, so it really is just our circles that haven't moved. Not that that affects your point, which I agree with. Network effects: they're strong!