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Since the announcment that NSFW blogs would soon be deleted I’ve daily looked into & researched alternatives. I’ve set up accounts on Pillowfort, which though very promising is still in Beta and not ready for the influx of millions of new users. I’ve also made an account on Humblr(Mastadon) that is very NSFW friendly but seems to work a lot like Twitter. Today I found out about a company named Timbr that is saving all our blogs through Google Cloud. Here is the article about it: “Timbr. The platform was quickly built by engineer Kirill Nikolaev after the content ban was announced as a refuge for blogs. Simply enter the blog name in its import tool, and a functional copy quickly appears on the server. Timbr aims to ultimately re-create what Tumblr has been: a community with all kinds of people and ideas, including NSFW material. Several other projects aspire to do the same thing. It’s unclear which, if any, will succeed. But Timbr is at least a place to keep your blog alive in the meantime.”- Fast Company

If you click on the above highlighted words it will tell you more about the company and person Kirill Nikloaev who is responsible for this. I tried it out and sure enough most of my blog is on there. If you go HERE and enter your blog name it will either start saving your page or show you what they already have. They are in the process of saving more than 700,000 NSFW blogs. This will give users a back-up of their blogs so that we won’t loose them in the meantime and will still be view-able even after the 17th. Timblr then plans in the future to make the blogs accessible to the original owners so that they can once again start posting onto their pages. 

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th

Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad

Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion

Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)

Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.

Open the app or website (including specific blogs)

Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)

Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Thanks to the anon that submitted these! Anyone know where the video is?