because how dare you have nice things on tumblr

atleast it didnt get you down too much

Indeed! I didn't maintain or invest too much in my presence there thankfully (though I feel sorry for those who did).

I did use it from time to time for brainstorming/finding reference material for like lingerie ideas and such. So there went my single use of it basically, haha.

Though there is a good thing to what happened to tumblr, people without a account do not have to worry about the NSFW filter in the way since that content will flood FA and other at sites.

Oh yeah, this is definitely great for all of Tumblr competitor's to say the least lol

I'd wager it's only a matter of time before Twitter follows suit.

Me too. Just in case I might as well take a gamble with it though. Especially since so many people use it now.

I wish they had another way of combating the child porn flooding that caused all of this NSFW banning.

Yeah that's a hell of an issue to solve. Weird that they would get so much flak from it instead of the actual perpetrators. I wish their approach could have been a lot less heavy-handed of one.

The situation is more complicated. The child porn isn't really the root issue here - it's just the trigger that brought underlying issues to the surface.

First, Tumblr was brought up last year, again. There are a couple of layers of corporate ownership in between, but they are actually owned by Verizon. Companies like Verizon do value their reputation and respectability (stop laughing), so it's likely that Tumblr were already being pressured from on high to do something about the very large quantity of porn their service hosted.

Secondly, there's the app store ban. We don't know exactly what happened there - the official reason is that child pornography was found, but how much and who by? That's all secret. It might have been just one image, and I don't think there's a social network where you couldn't find some if you really dug deep enough. The store ban may have been an overreaction, or not, we don't know. We do know it placed an immediate financial pressure on Tumblr: It's costing them money. They want back in that store, and they want back in now, which means there's no time for a slow manual review of all hosted content. A hurried purge is fastest route.

Thirdly, there's advertising. It's the same problem that's caused Youtube to start demonetising videos left and right, especially political commentary, religion and sexuality. Advertisers really care about brand associations, and they don't want their ad playing right before some conspiracy theorist starts yelling at the camera or a cringy activist starts espousing some fringe views. They really don't want their adverts appearing next to porn, especially some of the fetishy stuff that is popular on Tumblr. Which means such material is just not profitable: It drives advertisers away.

If Tumblr wanted to just rid themselves of child porn, they already use a very effective screening program utilising an international database of known images compiled by law enforcement. But it's more likely they already have commercial reasons to rid themselves of a lot of the adult content, and the claimed child pornography finding is merely the trigger that escalated the issue to urgent priority. This would have happened anyway, eventually.

Yeah, apple found it with a database issue they had when they had to end up removing it from their store. They are the biggest holder with all that so tumblr caved. Verison and yahoo are doing their best to ruin it like they did Flickr, and the Flickr pro users. I wish there was an actual, better fix other than what is going on now.

PostyBirb might be able to help you get caught up on Twitter (and any other gallery you might choose) and subsequently maintain it. Either way though, best of luck!

I've seen this mentioned before! My wife is definitely interested in it. If I myself expand to many more galleries I'd look into it as well.

Thanks for the suggestion :)

Cool beans! If you've questions and the like, the developer runs a Discord server where you can poke your head in for additional support.

Oh! I recently started using PostyBirb, and that would be fancy. Can I get an invite?

Me neither. Curious to see how it pans out but yeah... Not looking good lol.

I honestly feel like the NSFW stuff was a huge appeal to the site.

Look at it this way. NSFW stuff will always be allowed here.

Right? *looks around* Right? *getting nervous* Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight?

Oh man, I couldn't even imagine FA without the lewds!
Back when I first found Furaffinity it being NSFW friendly was the main appeal for people to come here instead of deviantart lol

Not a artist, but it makes me thankful that I never bothered posting my commissions and setting up a Tumblr. I only set it up to more or less exist, and follow the artists that were mainly there.
But now that Tumblr's getting axed I find myself following alot of tumblr sites, which is a mixed bag. I worry art might get drowned out there as I don't check my feed that often. Mainly only go there when I'm on the move, but being out in public I don't want to whip out the ol' twitter with like 80% followed people being NSFW artists. Just asking for a awkward moment with someone seeing what I'm looking at.

Oh gosh, I thought I replied to this comment before so pardon the delay here.
I agree completely about the being thankful part. I had briefly dabbled in tumblr myself before letting it fall to the wayside.

You bring up a really good point though. Sites like twitter and tumblr having such a variety of content on them can make them rather dicey to just browse publicly if you follow a bunch of NSFW artists.
Whiiich is why I like FA and other art galleries in general. They're more about the art itself and more focused in general. Twitter and tumblr were always a bit chaotic for my tastes haha.

FA also has the plus thing that it is a gallery. Can understand from a artists' standpoint that on tumblr and twitter people retweet your stuff and you only garner more and more viewers and the growth of your page is much faster than it is on FA.
On FA though its much easier for people to find your art. As I'm sure I'm not the only one with a large feed that has the chance of having artists' posts get drowned out in all other things and simply not get to it when scrolling through their feed.
I hope you find a good balance though!