I'm so sad and so angry about the choices Tumblr has decided to make. We came back to have somewhere safe to vent about hard and potentially upsetting topics, as well as our life experience. TikTok was obviously not the place for that, with good people getting deactivated left and right while neo Nazis were allowed to keep their profiles. Twitter is hostile and we never really learned how to use it. Tumblr was familiar and we thought it would be safe. Then the new friends we made started getting termed just like on TikTok. And just like TikTok, reporting literal death threats often gets you nowhere.
People can no longer safely even talk about their own traumas with CSA and we certainly no longer feel safe talking about things like POCD, pro fiction, pro para, etc here. We've made an aethy under the same name and we're working on moving over there more fully. (Aethy is great but we don't like change and learning new websites is hard). We'll still be here, but this isn't a safe space to talk openly anymore.
I hope the antis enjoy this moment and I hope they feel stabbed in the back when this enforcement of censorship comes for them too. Because it absolutely will. They wanted a pure and clean Tumblr, they're getting it. We'll see how much they actually end up enjoying getting what they wished for.
