Brooklyn Bridge Images wrote:
Anybody with helpful tips for a new place to host NSFW content that has features like custom page templates

Don't know about custom page templates. But Flickr (for now) and 500px.

barepixels wrote:
If someone need help with backing up all their pics on Tumblr, let me know.

You know... I don't have any adult content on my blog, but a ton of photos 95% mine and a few reblogs of stuff I liked...

Doing a full back up might be a good idea in general! 

udor wrote:
America is regressing at a frightening speed....

Some studies show that people, especially younger people in the US, supposedly losing interest and have less sex than the generation before

America is going the way of Mother Russia, every single Ruble going to the 1%-- crumbs for the rest. Hopelessness. Rotten, expensive healthcare. Puritanism. Fear of absolutely EVERYTHING -- harmless immigrants, minorities, gay people. Life spans DECREASING. Life spans do not decrease in functional countries.

Risen Phoenix Photo wrote:
As an art nude photographer I am glad Tumblr is taking down all the nudity on to site. I abhor Puritanism, I abhor the nanny mentality and the regressive nature of hypocritical right wing christians.

However I stopped having anything to do with Tumblr once porn sites became popular on their. I didn't want my Images reblogged from my site onto the myriad of straight up porn sites.

My models also did not appreciate that and Tumblr did little to fix this problem.

So, if you aren't on tumblr, why are you glad that other people can't post on tumblr anymore?  Why do you even care?  I have a few thousand followers on tumblr so someone seems to like my work there but now that avenue is blocked off and I can no longer post work there, I guess so that your work, which isn't on tumblr anymore, will continue to not be on tumblr anymore?  I don't get it.  And the problem you cite, while real, is not a tumblr problem.  Once you put ANYTHING online, ANYWHERE, anyone can do a screen cut and paste and put it anywhere else.  True, tumblr made reposting very easy, but tumblr is not what made it possible.

Risen Phoenix Photo wrote:
As an art nude photographer I am glad Tumblr is taking down all the nudity on to site. I abhor Puritanism, I abhor the nanny mentality and the regressive nature of hypocritical right wing christians.

However I stopped having anything to do with Tumblr once porn sites became popular on their. I didn't want my Images reblogged from my site onto the myriad of straight up porn sites.

My models also did not appreciate that and Tumblr did little to fix this problem.

You realize to the average uptight, pro censorship, nanny state Point of view your work is in the same exact basket as the Porn sites you are happy to see purged ?
What about Erotic art ?
Would you be glad to see Robert Mapplethorpe banned regardless if his work suits your taste or not.

I ask you to consider this famous quote

"    First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

    Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.

    Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

    Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. "

kickfight wrote:
I acknowledge that NSFW is merely a connotative acronym, but it's still hilariously ironic to note that every effort is apparently directed exclusively at making things "work-safe".

Because yeah... nothing uplifts the proletariat more than realizing that WORK is apparently the only "safe" space that the masters give a shit about.

I've never understood the push to make things "work safe" when I cant think of a single job that WANTS you to be looking at social media at work and wont actually fire you for it if they catch you, unless you work for like....buzzfeed...in which case the weirder shit you can find the better and everyone at buzzfeed is constantly having to turn worksafe filters OFF in order to do their jobs

I just operate like a half-intelligent adult human being and dont open certain apps or sign into certain accounts when I'm not in the comfort and privacy of my own home because I know that the assholes looking over my shoulder while I'm in line at starbucks are going to throw a shitfit if they see a boob while they're spying on what strangers are doing. I dont know why websites feel like they need to police that FOR anybody, if someone cant behave themselves with what they're looking at in public they should be responsible and probably get kicked out of wherever they are. At MOST websites/apps should implement a splash page that asks you if you want a "worksafe" mode on and theyll censor your timeline at that moment. Most social media already insisted on self-flagging of adult content, but your filters are just always on or always off and theyre hidden in your settings so its a pain in the ass to toggle.

Laura UnBound wrote:
I've never understood the push to make things "work safe" when I cant think of a single job that WANTS you to be looking at social media at work and wont actually fire you for it if they catch you, unless you work for like....buzzfeed...in which case the weirder shit you can find the better and everyone at buzzfeed is constantly having to turn worksafe filters OFF in order to do their jobs

I just operate like a half-intelligent adult human being and dont open certain apps or sign into certain accounts when I'm not in the comfort and privacy of my own home because I know that the assholes looking over my shoulder while I'm in line at starbucks are going to throw a shitfit if they see a boob while they're spying on what strangers are doing. I dont know why websites feel like they need to police that FOR anybody, if someone cant behave themselves with what they're looking at in public they should be responsible and probably get kicked out of wherever they are. At MOST websites/apps should implement a splash page that asks you if you want a "worksafe" mode on and theyll censor your timeline at that moment. Most social media already insisted on self-flagging of adult content, but your filters are just always on or always off and theyre hidden in your settings so its a pain in the ass to toggle.

Laura UnBound wrote:
I've never understood the push to make things "work safe" when I cant think of a single job that WANTS you to be looking at social media at work and wont actually fire you for it if they catch you, unless you work for like....buzzfeed...in which case the weirder shit you can find the better and everyone at buzzfeed is constantly having to turn worksafe filters OFF in order to do their jobs

Yep. Most employers already have (or should have) a pretty clear and pretty firm policy on non-work-related internet usage, so none of this is really about workplaces at all. But it's endlessly amusing to see the acronym being bandied about, as if it was somehow a matter of merely keeping that oh-so-abhorrent torrent of icky filth from besmirching those pristine sacrosanct corporate intranets.

Laura UnBound wrote:
I dont know why websites feel like they need to police that FOR anybody, if someone cant behave themselves with what they're looking at in public they should be responsible and probably get kicked out of wherever they are. At MOST websites/apps should implement a splash page that asks you if you want a "worksafe" mode on and theyll censor your timeline at that moment. Most social media already insisted on self-flagging of adult content, but your filters are just always on or always off and theyre hidden in your settings so its a pain in the ass to toggle.

My 15-year full-time stint in high tech (1993 - 2008) always reiterated to me that ANY level of nuance ---basically, anything that exceeds the basic on-off binary--- is apparently too expensive to implement/support. And even when you actually design that shit for them ---look! you *can* actually iterate across a decision tree! OMG MAGIC!!!!--- they still say it's "code-bloat" and unnecessary, so no can do. So yeah, it's STILL either a frickin' free-for-all always at all times wheeeeee *OR* the hammer-down on everything because THE CHILDREN or WORKSAFE or whatever lame excuse to rationalize away doing anything other than the bare functional minimum. Urgh.

- Phil H - wrote:
This may be of interest to some, a social media like platform that currently allows nudes and is currently running a "free for life" promotion. https://www.vero.co/

A lot of photographers seem to be hopping onboard, so it might be worth a try.

This Vero appears to only be for hand-held devices.

- Phil H - wrote:
This may be of interest to some, a social media like platform that currently allows nudes and is currently running a "free for life" promotion. https://www.vero.co/

A lot of photographers seem to be hopping onboard, so it might be worth a try.

I remember vero coming out during one of FB or Insta's many crack downs and there was something super sketch about it that made me delete it immediately. Cant remember what it was now, but I'm generally a "make an account and hold onto it just in case" kind of person and whatever it was was enough to make me not just abandon the account but fully delete it.

Laura UnBound wrote:
I remember vero coming out during one of FB or Insta's many crack downs and there was something super sketch about it that made me delete it immediately. Cant remember what it was now, but I'm generally a "make an account and hold onto it just in case" kind of person and whatever it was was enough to make me not just abandon the account but fully delete it.

I forget exactly what it was but I think it had something to do with the owner's previous business dealings and basically what a piece of shit he was.

Laura UnBound wrote:
... now they get to say "banning all porn is for the best!" because what monster is gonna argue against something that bans child porn? Sort of exactly how SESTA/FOSTA was won  - "think of the children!" while giving the axe to all consenting adults who depend on these platforms as a source of income.

The "think of the children" argument while giving the axe to all consenting adults vs. gun control is just one of the Right's hypocrisy. They are fine stripping consenting adults' rights to get their right to view adult material and do adult activities with other consenting adults as long as "it's for the children" because one child is too many. However, you can't pass any sort of sensible gun laws (like mental health background checks) because taking away one person's right to possess as many firearms as they can afford to buy is one person too much.

Take away sexual rights, but keep gun rights. Because sex or anything sexual, is "icky".

Francisco Castro wrote:
The "think of the children" argument while giving the axe to all consenting adults vs. gun control is just one of the Right's hypocrisy.

Not to get too political, but Scalia's dubious argument in Heller that people not in "orgainized militias" have some kind of "right" to own weapons is flatly insane. It's like giving people a right to drop matches in the forest. The fact that any random idiot can get any weapon, however gruesome, means that law-abiding citizens can never feel safe in public anymore. It abridges the rights of others.

The Tumblr people are metaphorically banning nerf guns because there are AK-47 "out there".

Keith Allen Phillips wrote:

I forget exactly what it was but I think it had something to do with the owner's previous business dealings and basically what a piece of shit he was.

Sounds plausible. And then you had to ASK to pretty please actually delete your account and it was this whole thing? I dont like a platform that wont let me leave.

Francisco Castro wrote:
Take away sexual rights, but keep gun rights. Because sex or anything sexual, is "icky".

sex has always been worse than violence, for both sides of the same coin.

Women and trans folx are largely the ones harmed by banning sexual expression on the internet. Are the big brand porno sites taking a hit? No, and they never have. They never had trouble finding hosting, they never had trouble securing credit card processors...and despite them being full to the brim with women, they're owned and controlled by men. Tumblr, twitter, sex worker sites, et al allowed women and trans folx to take control of their own business, and that can't stand. Men need to be in control of the business, and as a result, in control of women's bodies and their sexualities. You're only allowed to be bought and sold by men. It's an act of violence...and we're perfectly fine with violence as long as its carried out by big powerful men (or men who want to feel big and powerful)