based on the way they’re ignoring everything their own users are saying it’s pretty clear that staff doesn’t care about us, like at all, if you can’t show basic respect to the people using your site on the daily and helping to make it into what it is today, the people who have been on this site for years and have been loyal users of your platform which would have no purpose of existing if it wasn’t for us to use it, if you can’t let us have a voice that actually matters in the way you’re handling things and go about everything displaying that the opinions of the hundreds of thousands of us are completely unimportant for you, you’re going to lose everything
who will stay on the platform that hates their audience? that doesn’t care about most of us? you let things come this far and your way of dealing with the issue is misguided to say at least, unwilling to tackle the actual problems, sloppy and I’d even go as far as to say that it’s lazy, instead of investing the time to solve the real issues, you just decided to go about it the easier way and ban everything that could be considered adult content? how will that solve anything? how will that achieve anything else but most of your audience abandoning this site for good? this is not the only platform out there, you really think people will stay on a site that rejected them?
you’re abandoning the majority of your users, the marginalized, the people who have no other place to express themselves, who’ve finally met people who understand them, like-minded folks, an accepting environment, just because you’re reluctant to deal with the specific groups of people who are the actual problems here? in a fight to stop the illegal, you’re getting rid of the legal as well, at the cost of your own users. tell me, is that not what’s happening? because I fail to see it as anything else, but prove me wrong staff, do prove me wrong. prove that you actually care about us. prove that we matter.
Basically, because I know Mobile is bad with links, the article points out hat the broad, “sfw only, no titties allowed” wave on the internet in recent years is largely due to Apple’s absolute stranglehold on the App Store. Apple has strict guidelines about NSFW content that choke creators right out of mainstream social media, even on sites like Reddit, for users of their products:
But there are fewer and fewer mainstream sites and services that support porn and adult content, and much of that attitude has grown out of Apple’s strict controls over the App Store and the iOS ecosystem. Steve Jobs famously suggested that “folks who want porn can buy an Android phone,” and Apple has repeatedly leveraged its unprecedented power over millions of smartphones to sanitize the apps that are available on iPhones. Apple does not allow apps “that contain user generated content that is frequently pornographic.” In 2016, Apple famously deleted all third-party Reddit apps that allowed users to toggle NSFW posts on and off; even now, it is impossible to access porn on an iOS Reddit app unless you jump through various hoops.
remember though that this anger isn’t about Being Horny On Main, it’s about sex workers, their platforms and followers, NSFW creators and their art, and adult content communities that are continually being shoved out of spaces they created in recent years:
Tumblr’s leadership seems to believe that the community using Tumblr for adult content is the same as any other porn site—showing a serious disconnect with how its users actually interact and connect on its own platform. “We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community,” he wrote.
The value of Tumblr for NSFW creators and fans was in the autonomy to curate something original, and the freedom to express and share what they’re into—something that can’t be replaced by algorithmically-suggested porn on the rest of the internet.
it was mentioned before somewhere else, but 20% of Tumblr’s traffic is brought in by content they’re now flagging as “adult”
This is yet another example of a platform ignoring adult content when it helps the platform flourish, and then leaving those users out to dry when it’s time to crack down for some monetary gain or face-saving. In addition to being a terrible way to treat your user base, banning adult content on Tumblr will stifle a lot of creativity.
The communities that will feel this change the most will be the already-marginalized. “Tumblr banning adult content is a huge loss for the LGBTQ community, especially those with overlapping marginalized identities,” Kitty Stryker, a queer porn performer and consent activist, told Motherboard in an email. “For many, that’s the one place we could find porn that represents us, made by indie performers who created their own content outside of an often racist, transmisogynist, fatphobic industry. Tumblr was where our content could exist without pushing us into the restrictions of a misogynist, male dominated workplace.”
It makes me super glad I have never bought Apple products and now I definitely never will.
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