What’s the point of having the Tumblr App rated “Mature 17+” on Google Play when you can’t even have mature content here??? What’s the point of the rating then???
Hello, my name is Katie. I am a creator here on Tumblr. I run a witchcraft blog where I share my spiritual beliefs and host my shop information (where I give readings and such.) This blog, in particular, has been active for several years, and I have a few others where I run a magazine, or one where I post poetry, or one where I write stories.
I have met some amazing friends here, too, and not just within the realms of spiritual beliefs and practices. I have friends that are artists; I have friends that are content creators. These people use Tumblr for their businesses, like me.
In so little words: part of my livelihood depends on the activity involved with my blog. It is how I pay my bills; it is how I make sure my pets have food. Without Tumblr, I don’t know where I would be now.
I get that you all don’t want kids exposed to inappropriate content. They shouldn’t be. They should be allowed to be kids without disgusting adult human beings creeping on them. Â
I get that you don’t want to promote self-harm, including eating disorders and body mutilation. No one wants other people to hurt themselves.
I get that you don’t want to play host to racists, or bigots, or just your run-of-the-mill trash fire people who find enjoyment in hurting others. I wouldn’t want to be forced to sit next to a Nazi indefinitely.
But these things have been problems on your website for some time. And you did nothing.
I know because I have reported them and have NEVER received acknowledgment for my concerns. Not to be a narc, but I have flagged bots with adult content and I have reported blogs where someone was posting content that was worrisome to me.
I don’t give a crap if an adult working in an adult-related industry wants to use the platform. There are so many tools that you all could utilize instead of making broad, general swipes at the larger problem. Tools like:
proper post tagging
age verification
business accounts
actual human beings looking over blogs instead of an automated system that cannot determine context
It’s basically like this: you’ve made a really shitty mess that you refused to take care of and now you are trying to clean your mess with a dirty towel. Â
You aren’t actually fixing the issue.
In doing so, you are forcing the people who aid in the making of your money to turn to other sites. Why?
Because you refuse to actually get down in the muck and do the work needed to FIX this issue.
And it probably has something to do with money. That’s usually what things like this boil down to. Â
Already, posts of mine are being flagged…and they don’t violate ANY of your community guidelines. I can’t wait to see the havoc you will really wreak across your platform come the 17th.
This is ridiculous and you know it.
Sincerely, a Random Somebody that Uses Your Website
(Because that is exactly how you view me and everyone else here.)
The land of Tumblr was lit with flames, touching the skins of the people who lived in the town withing the barbed wired walls. As the guard burned each and every home to the ground, the people fled, escaping the ruined home they once knew in the corrupt domain.
Horns of the reinforcements; soldiers of different lands came to their aid. Twitter, housing millions of tumblr refugees, kept the camp open and accepting for all those who ran to it. As it cared for those injured, it’s allies held the ground.
The war will be fought this day and for many to come.
replying is how you make friends! reply to anything you want and be friendly. don’t make rude jokes if you’re not friends already though!
quote retweeting is a no-no. when you “retweet with a comment” it’s not liked by content creators because it makes a new tweet out of their tweet and they don’t get the likes and retweets they would get if you’d just retweeted it straight up. if you want to comment on a retweet, reply to it or post a new tweet starting with “LRT” which stands for “last retweet” (it’s fine to quote retweet dumb memes and so on.)
you can make your tweets private. this means no one but your followers will be able to see what you post and no one will be able to retweet your content. you can switch back and forth between private and public at will. some people make a separate private account to tweet personal stuff and let mutuals follow it only. it’s a good way to keep things separate.
what is privatter? privatter is a third party web app that content creators can allow to be attached to their twitter. it lets them tweet content that they can make exclusive to logged in users, followers, mutuals, or a specific list of users. as long as you are logged in to twitter and fall into the intended category, you’ll be able to see it.Â
you can mute people you follow. (and those you don’t, ofc.) you can also mute words and phrases and entire conversations. if you mute someone you follow and they reply to you, that reply will still show up in your notifications. it’s a good way to keep the peace!
you can limit notifications to people who follow you or to mutuals. (notifications from people you follow will still show up regardless of which option you’ve selected.)
miscellaneous tips and warnings: if you accidentally unfollow and refollow someone, it won’t show up in their notifications as long as it’s within a couple minutes. no more accidental stuff. everyone can see who everyone follows so watch out. people will know if you unfollow. if you want to report someone and want them gone forever, report a tweet where they used a curse word. screenshotting tweets for harassment is a no-no and can get you banned. don’t be lame. don’t be a dick. vaguing others is generally really bad form and so is complaining about content within a fandom you’re in. use the mute tools at your disposal and don’t be a spoiler. you won’t come back from a rep like that and everyone sees everything.
that’s it! happy tweeting!!
how do i keep all my content together on twitter?
threads are your best friend!! you make a tweet with your commission info and links and so on and pin it to the top of your page. then reply to that tweet with a copy and pasted link to the tweet where you posted the art/fic/etc you want to not lose. reply to that new tweet with the next piece of artwork and so on. you can also make a unique hashtag for your content to use when you post, so that when you search that hashtag later you’re able to see just your art. good luck!
Ooooo! Reblogging because I recently made a Twitter (for easy-to-guess reasons), so these are some useful tips!Â
What with all the Verizon stuff, I decided to back up my tumblr.
I found this. Link goes to the tutorial for the utility, but there are links in it to everything you need. Windows-specific. Following the instructions exactly, without using any extra options, it was very simple to do, and with my 2240 posts/~2 GB the utility took around 10-15 minutes to run (once you start it, it runs without your input).
It worked pretty well, overall.
Some notes.
It only grabs public posts. And only the post contents themselves, not notes (it shows note count; it just doesn’t go into the notes and save who liked, who reblogged, comments, etc.). You do not need to tell it your password, only url.
It doesn’t preserve photoset formatting, or your theme. It looks like you get up to fifty posts per page (next/previous navigation at the bottom if you had more than fifty posts in a given month). But while the resulting page is huge, it’s much easier on your browser than it would be on actual tumblr.
By default(?), it does not preserve videos that were uploaded directly to tumblr (as opposed to embedded from youtube). It just does a preview image in place of the video. Embedded videos work fine, though (as long as the video’s source doesn’t disappear).
By default(?), for audio posts, it doesn’t save the audio; it just hotlinks to it.
It looks like there are options you can use to back up video and audio, but I didn’t try them.
It looks like it does save images at full size, not display size.
Links (such as links to the original post, or links to tags) are preserved properly and . Â Tags are preserved.
It gives you a link to the actual post on your blog, for each post–it’s a circle/dot after the time and date.
While it was running it threw up some http errors, like so:
However, I checked a few of them, and they were in the proper places in the backup, so I guess it retries them.
ETA: It does incremental backups, too! Just do “tumblr_backup.py -i yourtumblrname” instead of “tumblr_backup.py yourtumblrname”. However, it doesn’t notice if you’ve edited a post that it previously backed up.
ETA 2: It does look under readmores.
With some of the recent events, I figured some of you guys may want to give this a try! It seems like the easiest and most efficient way to back up your tumblr.
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