Seen a couple discord links, please don’t make personal discords you’re primary space to be, unless someone pays for nitro they can only join 100 servers, and trying to keep up with every artist’s discord is not a reasonable task. Please set up on here or Cohost or something actually public facing.
If you’re an artist, especially a commission artist jumping into the walled garden of your personal discord server in response to this news is only going to hurt your chances of finding an audience.
Joining a discord is a commitment on a much higher scale than following someone on a public website. If you’re giving up on social media because twitter is dead and you somehow legitimately believe there’s nothing here on tumblr, get your own site.
Keeping your art accessible is the only way it’s gonna maintain and increase an audience. I’m sure as fuck not joining a new discord for every account i follow on Twitter even if it were possible.
A new soda drink is in stores everywhere! Remember to drink responsibility and avoid drinking it on full moon nights. Commission done for Scoots on Twitter.
Tumblr, buddy, listen to me. This is an unprecedented opportunity. You can snap up all of the pie here, and become defacto internet goodguy easy. All you gotta do is… drop the nsfw ban. Unambiguously. Announce that dicks are back on the menu. You want people subscribed the blogs? You want people to actually use your Post+ function? Porn. Let us use it for porn. The youngins aren’t joining this site anyway, you’re not competing with tiktok. The vaguely horny 20-40 demographic though? You can have that. You can have all of that. Think about it.
Do you know how many pinup artists alone are itching to come back to tumblr, but dont because of the unclear, seemingly arbitrary application of your nsfw policy? These are insanely talented people who are practically begging to give you content. For free. But you gotta change the policy. We can’t keep dancing around this. Just think of publicity. The drama. A complete 180. You’d kill it tumblr. You could make it happen. Please.
Hate to always be the one saying this, but:
No, they literally can’t.
FOSTA/SESTA hasn’t gone away. Credit card companies are still reluctant or completely unwilling to do business with adult content providers. The app store is still a bitch. Ads are still a necessary part of the website’s revenue stream.
People don’t seem to understand that Twitter being able to semi-openly host explicit porn, despite being so huge, is an act of fucking wizardry. It’s unclear why Twitter gets such wildly preferential treatment from these entities (especially now) but the fact remains that it is preferential treatment. Not just any website can do that.
If Tumblr’s ownership (not @staff mind you, the actual owners) was confident this website could be fully financially supported on subscriptions/post+ there might be a shred of a chance that we could get porn back, but people are EXTREMELY hostile to Tumblr’s efforts to ‘be a profitable business,’ so why would they expect that to work?
Yes, the NSFW policy could be hugely improved. It needs to be more clear and consistent. But, for the record, it’s fairly obvious that the inconsistency and vagueness are at least partially because A. the moderation is almost entirely automated and B. staff genuinely wants to give us wiggle room to post lewd shit while giving themselves plausible deniability
If you want porn back, stop talking to staff and start talking to your congressmen.
Whelp.. with Twitter’s new limit on how many posts you can view in a day, I’m gonna start prioritizing tumblr to try and build this account up. Unfortunately Twitter was my main source of income since it was my biggest following so it really sucks this new change seems to be the real nail in its coffin.
