Birdman kicked my ass 🦉

- “people are muted” no nobody is muted. it’s just a glitch that affected some posts, mostly text posts. don’t send staff any messages, just edit and save those posts and they’ll fix themselves

- “tumblr is banning custom themes” no it’s not

- “tumblr is banning kin stuff” no, it bans impersonation. as in you cant pretend to be someone such as a celebrity. Same with mastadon.

- “they banned nsfw to get back into the app store” they banned nsfw cuz verizon cant sell ads next to porn, the app store debacle just made them speed up the process. this all stems back to capitalism sucks.

fuckin. countless lgbt blogs n posts are automatically flagged as nsfw and susceptible to being banned, random pictures are for some reason or another flagged as nsfw, etc

its a broken system completely incapable of functioning properly, therefore putting basically anyone on the site at risk, Because tumblr absolutely refuses to, for even one second, actually put effort into moderating and filtering content that is ACTUALLY harmful

they don’t care about keeping adult content away from children- they can’t be bothered to actually properly deal with CP and pornbots (the reasons tumblr got taken out of the app store and the Google play store) so they’re getting rid of all content their system seems adult in an attempt to get back into the stores

if they really wanted to just keep adult content away from children, they would improve their safe mode filter, implement some form of age verification (which even if really simple actually goes a long way to preventing accidental exposure) and just actually get rid of porn bots and cp

I was just semi-complaining that I was still looking for a decent way to backup my +4k posts without having to use paid services or even just wordpress (which has an import from tumblr tool that asks for permission to access your blog and also make posts), when I decided to actually put some effort into my google search. 

Results were positive: I have successfully backed up my blog* 

*By which I mean: everything that I have ever posted.  Not included: drafts, queue, likes, followers, following, comments, notes, chat. 

I followed this method (word by word), and now have a 450 MB folder on my computer with the name of my blog on it containing: 

1. Folder “Archive” (contains .html files listed by month) 2. Folder “Media” (contains gifs and images, mine has +1k files in it; might contain also audios but I have no way of confirming that because I’ve never reblogged an audio post from this blog) 3. Folder “Posts” (contains single .html files, each one a post; I have +4k files in it) 4. Folder “Theme” (contains only my avatar, but it might be a matter of if you have personalized themes or not) 5. .html file “Index” (by opening it it will give you the archive of your blog organized by month; clicking on a month will open up the archive for that month, and you’ll be able to read all the posts for that month as if you were on your blog**, except sans your theme graphic, with each page containing 50 posts)

**I can see gifs, links, embedded videos, tags, number of notes (but I can’t open up the notes, clearly), text is also correctly formatted. 

So yeah, in case anyone wants a very quick way to back up their blog, it took me less than 10 minutes. 

Ancient Roman gold nipple cover, 1st century AD.