this post will be updated as I find more websites to add! please check with the original before reblogging to see if there’s an updated version, and message me with corrections or more suggestions if you have them!!
websites in red have explicitly forbidden the posting of NSFW content.websites in orange allow certain types of NSFW content or have questionable / unclear guidelines.
for general use
joinmastodon.org – basically like if twitter and discord had a child??
mewe.com – privacy-focused, has groups and private messages
myspace.com – yes, it still exists, i’m just as surprised as you
nibblebit.com – similar to tumblr with reblogging / liking / customization of blogs
swarmr.com – looks like a clone of tumblr, though i haven’t tested
twitter.com – allows posting both text and photos in sets, allows retweets
livejournal.com – still an option, but questionably safe for fandom
mibba.com – for creative writers, centered around community feedback
wordpress.com – old and well-established, often considered the default
geared towards artists and photographers
deviantart.com – huge community, allows posting art + sorting into folders
flickr.com – great community for photographers, can join groups
furaffinity.net – similar to DA but for furries, easy to display commish info
instagram.com – photo and video posts, excellent tag search
newgrounds.com – an oldie but a goodie, allows a ton of media types
piczel.tv – allows both streaming and posting art / photosets to a gallery
pixiv.net – huge anime art community, allows livestreaming
chat or forum based
aminoapps.com – community-based, has blogs + chat, custom themes
discordapp.com – great chat app, text + voice, can join infinite servers
reddit.com – literally a community for everything, SO MANY CAT PHOTOS
18+ only
bdsmlr.com – microblogging + social media for people into kink
blogr.xxx – a tumblr clone created specifically for sharing porn
libertine.center – beautiful + modern site for posting irl nsfw and kinks
thefetlibrary.com – for posting of erotic stories, replaces bdsmlibrary
paid platforms
patreon.com – subscription-based access to many diff types of content
pillowfort.io – still in beta, but should function almost identically to tumblr
typepad.com – similar to wordpress but with reblogging and a dash
defunct platforms
(so people will stop telling me i forgot them)
jux.com – shut down in 2014 due to lack of funds
shoandtell.me – now redirects to someone’s personal blog
soup.io – more or less closed down this year due to GDPR issues
ways to save your current tumblr posts
use the wayback machine! you do have to archive each page of your blog individually but once you do all the content, including media, will be saved exactly as it was at the moment you archived it.
wordpress allows you to directly import whole tumblr blogs, and if i recall correctly it’s something both dreamwidth and pillowfort have said they are working on.
if you have some knowledge of computers you can try this github solution which uses a python script to download your whole blog to your computer. even if you don’t know anything about programming or the command line they give a very good beginners tutorial on how to use it so you should still give it a shot!
if that’s still a little daunting you can try soarcodes’ tumblr post that also has a decent tutorial!
some notes
please note that every site on this list will have pros and cons, and i haven’t listed them here since this post would be a mile long otherwise. please do your research before moving completely over to another site in case they have policies you disagree with.
also, because I see a lot of misinformed people ranting about this: deviantart does not own the art you post. some years ago hot topic stole a ton of art from DA and sold it on merchandise and people assumed that DA gave them permission to do it despite there being literally zero evidence for that claim. DA explictly states in their TOS that you retain copyright and sole license of the art you post.
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libertine.center listed as modern site! Thank you and see you all there 😉
I think the real problem here is that big media corporations seem to believe that social media userbases are fungible, and persist in acting on this belief no matter how many times it’s demonstrated to be wrong.
There’s a specific pattern of events that plays out over and over (and over) again, and it looks something like this:
1. Social media platform becomes popular
2. Social media platform is purchased by big media corporation in order to gain access to it large user base
3. Big media corporation realises that social media platform’s demographics are not the demographics they want to sell things to.
4. Big media corporation institutes measures to drive away “undesirable” users, apparently in the honest belief that the outgoing users will automatically be replaced by an equal number of new, more demographically desirable users
5. This does not, in fact, occur
6. Social media platform crashes and burns
You’d think that, by the sheer law of averages, at least one person who’s capable of learning from experience would become involved in this whole process at some point.
“Big media corporation institutes measures to drive away “undesirable” users, apparently in the honest belief that the outgoing users will automatically be replaced by an equal number of new, more demographically desirable users”
^^
THIS is what we mean when we say that nsfw censorship campaigns will inevitably be used to target queer and other minority communities first.
Because we’re not the ideal marketing base.
You can sell stuff to cis white male nazis because you can sell stuff to cis white males.
Everyone else is a niche market.
They will toss us under the bus every single time.
I joked, earlier, about tumblr putting up this sponsored camgirl ad immediately after deleting the nsfw tag and a bunch of queer bloggers:
(Note she’s coyly lifting up her shirt, but the female-presenting nipples are still safely concealed)
Because it shouldn’t be hard to make porn appealing to the 22+ percent of the userbase that’s already consuming it here, and yet this dumb ad couldn’t be much more mainstream white-het-male-gaze if it tried.
I remember turning to my brother and saying “it’s like they don’t even know who their users ARE”
but really it’s just that we’re not who they want to sell to
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(ps tumblr currently has me muted, so reblogs of this might only be visible on the dash, not on ur actual blogs. ty, tumblr)
Tikki: You know when Adrien said take the high road he meant be nice
Marinette: I am
Tikki: Placing classmate’s lost objects in the back row?
Marinette: They’ll be safe there as no one will see it
Tikki
: Putting bandages and wrist braces in Lila’s locker?
Marinette: She said she had a bad wrist
Tikki
: Putting safety goggles next to the napkins?
Marinette: Max was afraid one could cut his eye open
Tikki
: Always telling Alya to just spend time with Nino
Marinette: She said she wanted more time with Nino. That’s why they sat together in class. I’m trying to support their relationship
Tikki
: Doing a science presentation on tinnitus, and history present on greatest liars and cheats in history?
Marinette: I find Barnum’s life very interesting considering how bad he was compared to his musical versions and thought a comparison to Shakespeare who was a great creator of illusion through words could be interesting. Finishing with Volpina and Rena created a modern day example of good and bad uses of illusion
Tikki
: And the science presentation?
Marinette: After the music festival where Juleka’s mum had the speakers so high I was worried about all our hearing
Tikki
: And getting Max to create Robostus a friend that fact check’s everything that is said
Marinette: Helping Alya achieve journalistic standards of reporting?
“I really can’t stress this enough, but you need to take care of yourself physically and not adopt a sedentary lifestyle, you never know when a coworker will challenge you to a boxing match so you need to always be in peak performance.”
Staff: “ why is this happening?! They told us to get rid of the child pornographers! Our new law will do that !why are they so angry?!”
The undercover staffer who tried to prevent it: sir. .. some your algorithm knights are attacking innocent citizens.. not the monsters… you are forcing thousands out of their homes for they have the same color shoes as the monsters’ fur..
To be straight… you are an idiot.”
An algorithm knight smashed through the window, and stabs the king staffer*
King of tumblr, as he dies: “ why??? My son..?
Algorithm knight:
*removes helmet dramatically as golden hair falls from her shoulders : “ I am no son of yours, for I have female presenting [REMOVED]”
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