- Joined
- Mar 22, 2019
I've been on Tumblr for ages (I like landscape photography and capeshit, sue me), and many of us have been in awe of how incredibly pleasant the site has been since the porn ban. There are way more conversations happening instead of immediate shout-downs, fewer people parade around their ridiculous xenogenders, and lifehacks and mental health tip posts actually get built upon instead of everyone jumping on them to shout about how "organizing your office is ableism" or what-the-fuck-ever.Was looking at the thread growth the other day. Things really started picking up after the Tumblr porn ban (in 2018ish) forced them all to colonise Twitter and Reddit in earnest, and it's been accelerating ever since as far as I can tell.
It's still a decidedly liberal site. Posts about environmentalism, UBI, BLM, etc. get the most traction and right-wingers still get shoved into their own little corners. (There is a growing radfem community that drives others up the walls, though. Lol.) And of course there are still idiots who get attention with outrage about Rowling or whatever, because it's social media.
But in comparison to how it was? Turn off people's firehose of coom sources and stop catering to the "sex work is real work!" contingent, and the Tumblr userbase got more sensible, mature, and community-minded pretty much instantly








