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Well, there is a healthy community concerning a particular obscure kink I have been 'given', that is not present anywhere else. I wonder what are suitable places to migrate to.

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Communities need to start hosting their own content again. These days computing power and storage are cheap. Anyone can throw up a Reddit clone thats just for kinks. Would probably make good money too if it charged a subscription and didn't bother with advertisers.

Hosting your own server gives you full control. That said, it puts more responsibility and liability on you to do content moderation, assuming you make it public.

Some people do a hybrid approach. A public forum/board to share content, with some rules. Then another private server for a smaller group of friends to share anything.

You can also create a Tor Hidden Service.

The thing is that for the more niche kink communities on Tumblr the fact that everyone was using it was what made them work.

You will never get that kind of activity on a Tor service. If you look at the more obscure, older fetish-related networks which often still have active IRC channels and such you'll notice that a large portion of people there are quite techy.

I don't think that's true for the wider kink community at all, it's just that the barrier of entry & discoverability of such communities will exclude the less techy folks.

I agree. If something isn't happy-clicky and already works from their existing browser, most won't bother. Perhaps you could develop a simple innovative way to make Tor easy for that community to adopt. Maybe a small number of them try it out at first.

> Hosting your own server gives you full control.

And exposes you to all kinds of problems to care about including DDoSes, pwners, lawyers, hardware failures etc.

> You can also create a Tor Hidden Service.

So (I feel sad about this but this is how it seems) almost nobody will ever find it, but child porn lovers and other kinds of ultimate weirdos will and you will have hard time banning them.

I agree with all of this. I only mention it because it is one valid option. You would have to find ways to lower the bar to access for your particular community.

Start a subreddit. Try to get as many people in your community to migrate before the 17th.

Reddit isn't exactly known for its tolerance of sexual content that doesn't harm anyone (or violate anyone's privacy).

What are you thinking of that they took down? Most of the stuff seems to be nonsexual and more political or gorey

The r/lolicon subreddit and they have placed a site-wide ban on posting or linking to cartoon pornography that depicts characters who appear to be fictional children.

DeviantART is probably the closest alternative, but with more focus on the individual instead of the interaction between people

There are lots of big photographers that are complaining that DA has been killing their stuff as well so I would be very surprised if it won't add similar policies.

Keep an eye on the notes section of the tumblr staff post. https://staff.tumblr.com/post/180758987165/a-better-more-pos...

I've seen twitter and ao3 mentioned the most for replacement.

reddit probably.

FetLife

They can't even figure out how to accept credit cards.

That's not a problem of their own making, their payment processors essentially dropped them for (cough) "blood, needles, and vampirism" (per the announcement). See https://pastebin.com/FFSQUML9 and https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/payment-processors-are...

There is a desperate need for a way around these morality police suppressing legal free speech via money:

GNU Taler seems to be that answer, if it would ever actually launch...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18529764 https://cryptosumer.com/2018/11/24/free-software-messiah-ric... https://taler.net/en/index.html

Go on...

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