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“Starting Dec 17, adult content will not be allowed on Tumblr.”

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Is this the beginning of the end for Tumblr? A very informal survey of friends indicates that they only knew of it for NSFW content so who will still be using it?

I’m curious what percentage of users are only there for that kind of content.

The phrase "female-presenting nipples" opens up so much room for interpretation and discussion, doesn't seem like a great choice for trying to make your policy less ambiguous.

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It's written in such a way as to encompass trans-women too.

Someone that "expresses" or "presents" themself as female is "female-presenting". These people will no longer be allowed to show their nipples.

There's simply no way to formalize rules of nudity and sexuality in this new era. They're better off being super vague about "no sexual content" and picking their battles when it comes to needing clarification.

It's basically "if it looks like boobs, you can't post it". But phrased a bit more delicately.

there are a lot of jokes being made along the lines of "there goes their userbase" but for me personally this is a huge loss.

especially for those of us who have certain kinks, Tumblr to this day has been the only place to ever exist where women could safely express their sexuality.

it allowed us to meet like-minded people, it allowed us to break the taboo and it ended the isolation that many of us felt.

Tumblrs main asset has always been it's community,and I'm deathly afraid this new policy will take all of this away

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EDIT: The URL was just put under a login-wall?

How much of Tumblr is NSFW material? How many of their users are only there for that? I would have guessed... most?

Surprise, surprise.

The shittiest "tech" job has to be reviewing flag content looking for child porn, snuff, etc.

Sounds like tumblr/oath/verizon just decided that it was easier to not have to pick and choose which porn was o.k.

Section 230 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...) was recently neutered by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Enabling_Sex_Traffickers_...

So once again no really a surprise that tumblr is saying goodbye.

May be a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18590944

Seems like it will force a lot of people onto other platforms. I wonder if it will be the Fediverse and if the Fediverse is ready for it.

End of an era

How much longer is Tumblr going to circle the drain? Virtually unmonetizeable and declining userbase, and its founder has been gone.

edit: Meh, don't feel like having this in my comment history, since I don't really have anything to add anyway.

I'm sad tumblr is doing this, but I understand why they are making the decision to remove it.

The main thing is that some Tumblr users consider depictions of childlike characters having sex as OK, whereas that's considered illegal on most of the west. The exact same issue happened to LiveJournal a decade ago, but LiveJournal decided they'd rather keep the new users, creating an exodus of mainstream users as the site became an underage HP fanfic site.

Are illustrations depicting underage sex really illegal in most of the West? Possession/distribution/both? That's shocking/scary to me if true.

"Are illustrations depicting underage sex really illegal in most of the West?"

If you are talking about the USA, the answer is a definate Maybe. And even if you get convicted, it may get overturned. See [1] because there are conflicting court cases, partially overturned laws. It's a mess.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_drawn_pornogra...

I was vaguely aware of some grey area in the US, but not of clear cut illegality in "most of the West". Still, even in my vague awareness, I thought this was less muddled in the US than it apparently is.

The whole us view on pornography is crazy. For crying out loud, this was said in a Supreme court case by a justice: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it

They're definitely illegal in UK and Oz too (see references in Wikipedia link above)

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