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I’m going to make a list of Official Ways to Celebrate Gaudapocalypse, and I want to include something about protesting the coming Purge. What is the most effective thing I can advise my followers to do? aka message staff/support, reblog certain posts, log off on the 17th…

bardiclore

1. Participate in the Gaudapocalypse on 12/16 by changing their icon to yours & leaving it like that for the next 48 hours

2. During the first 24 hours of Gaudapocalypse, devote their blog to shitposting & reblogging protest posts/memes mocking Yahoo/Verizon & tag everything #sfw even if it isn’t (because chaos)

3. It’s their choice whether or not to post or reblog stuff likely to get flagged, but if anything does get flagged and shouldn’t be, DO NOT help Tumblr refine its algorithm by trying to get staff to unflag the post (I’ve even stopped reporting porn bots)

4. Shortly before midnight on 12/17, delete everything in queue (or change all their queued posts to drafts), let their followers know what they are doing and why; leave a final post explaining it & assuring everyone that they will be back on 12/18, because many others will likely be leaving for good

5. On 12/17, for 24 hours, do not log into Tumblr, do not use Tumblr, do not look at Tumblr (they should probably also temporarily turn off notifications), but don’t delete the app (and if they plan on returning, they shouldn’t delete their blog)

6. On 12/17, get LOUD about the ban on other platforms (Twitter, Facebook, etc), why it’s bad for everyone, etc., and retweet/share other’s posts about it

7. Return to Tumblr on 12/18 to gaze upon its smoking ruins, change icon back to their original one & begin using Tumblr again as usual (if that is even still possible by then)

burningcomputerpersona

Boost!

#tumblr #petition #sfw #gaudapocalypse #signal boost #boost

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xenoqueer

When Tumblr bans porn, who loses?

Verizon is leaving the engine of internet culture to sputter and die, and its communities to scramble for a new home.

www.vox.com|Kaitlyn Tiffany

The Vox article that I was interviewed for is up and running, and it contains some serious fuckign information about this whole fiasco.

Information that tumblr just straight up refused to provide to its userbase at all.

Unsurprisingly to those of us watching this website deteriorate over the last year, this full content purge and ban has been in progress for a solid 6 months. The date got moved up because of the child porn thing, but it was always coming for us.

Equally unsurprising: Tumblr’s management and ownership are absolutely destroying the actual staff working on it. The company has been hemoragghing senior staff without so much as a token attempt to keep them in place. So the drops in site quality are real, and wil probably only be getting worse.

Truly astonishing is the fact that apparently this crap was supposed to “double” the userbase by the end of next year. Boy, howdy, that’s not gonna work out well for them.