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Tumblr is now owned by a phone company, so it’s stopped fighting for Network Neutrality

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Yahoo’s sale to Verizon means that Yahoo’s sub-companies – Flickr, Tumblr and a host of others – are now divisions of a phone company, and as you might expect, being on the payroll of a notorious neutracidal maniac with a long history of sleazy, invasive, privacy-destroying, monopolistic, deceptive, anti-competitive, scumbag shakedowns has changed the public positions these companies are allowed to take.

This matters a lot. The previous fights for net neutrality were won in part with the support of scrappy online companies like Tumblr, whose CEO, staff and users worked together to send a strong message to Congress and the FCC about the importance of a neutral internet, free from ISPs who slow down your connections to services unless they pay bribes for “premium” carriage.

With Trump’s FCC set to slay Net Neutality, the internet is once again planning a day of coordinated action: on July 12, sites across the net will send their users to the FCC and Congress to demand that ISPs be held to a public service standard befitting the trillions of dollars in public subsidies they receive every year in the form of access to rights of way through our cities and between them.

However, Tumblr is not among the companies presently slated to participate, and sources within the company told The Verge that the company and its CEO, David Karp (once a staunch Net Neutrality campaigner) have been given orders to sit this one out.

https://boingboing.net/2017/06/22/corporations-arent-people.html

bastlynn

Ahhhh that explains the whole reason why ATT email addresses won’t be allowed to login to Tumblr anymore starting June 30th. (NOT. A. HOAX.)

https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115007729788-Heads-up-for-AT-T-customers

This btw - is why if you have fic on this site, you should probably work on copying it over to Ao3 now. Because the nature of Tumblr is likely to change with the new ownership… remember strikethru and prepare.

sulasaferoom

Heyyy everyone
Have you been backing up the stuff you have only posted on tumblr? Because you should
Gentle reminder Tumblr does not count as backup

shinelikethunder

This. Start backing your shit up. Having lived through a few seismic internet shakeups, I can tell you right now, these tremors feel awfully fucking familiar. Just… bigger.

(Not just your content. Figure out a way to keep in touch with the people you want to keep talking to if all your social media hangouts fall into the ocean. Protip: IRC is the indestructible cockroach of online chat platforms and will probably outlive all of us.)

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Please check out this small kick starter project for pins I’d like to make. ♡♡♡♡♡

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For those who are international and interested in pins: I’ve found some cheaper alternatives to shipping! If you have any further questions, speficially to shipping to your country, please email me at itslizombie@gmail.com (´・ﻌ・`) ♡♡♡♡

liz-pls

Thank you to everyone who reblogged my kickstarter, I super appreciate it! Even if you can’t back a project, getting it out to others is extremely helpful.

3mangos

Important information for Content Creators on Tumblr

saxonsfierytemper

okay i know ive posted alot about this just now, but now that ive got it more or less figured out I’m gonna make a better post here and include the tags relevent to my interactions in it to ensure no one else in my fandoms/communities are blindsided like i was. 

I encourage you to make your own, or to just recopy this, tagging the fandoms and communities important to you!

CONTENT CREATORS: TUMBLR IS HIDING YOUR POSTS!

If you make a post with external links, your post will be hidden from searches. If you make a post and link to your redbubble, no one can search for your post. If you make art and link it to your deviantart or artstation, no one can search for you post. If you make any post and just throw on a “hey here is where you find me!” no one can search that post. If you want to recommend a fic or a youtube video, no one can search your post, if you… hell you get the idea. Tumblr has completely shut down content creators on this hellsite and its fucking infuriating.

Edit:  I have just confirmed that the post type “Link” also does not show up in the tags. Thats right, there is an ENTIRE TYPE OF TUMBLR POST that cannot be searched. G-FUCKING-G TUMBLR.

WHAT TO DO?

It shuts down posts with external links, so at first i assumed internal links would be fine. and they are. if you make a page on your tumblr blog called like /links or something you can certainly link to that. But in that way you run into an issue, tumblr mobile is a piece of shit and cant load tumblr pages, and itll just take you back to the mainblog any time you try.

The best solution ive found so far is put all your relevent links in your blog description like so:

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and then in every content post, call tumblr out for being a piece of shit and direct them to the links in your blog description.

Edit: In the top right hand side of photo posts you can click on it and include a single link as “source” that should work if you have one link neccessary. though if you need more you are still SOL.

CONTENT CREATOR SUPPORTERS

It is important now more than ever on this hellsite that you try to support your artist and content creators, reblog as much as possible, look to find them on websites off this piece of shit, and generally do your best to spread the word and support them, since tumblr itself is trying to silence them! 

chaoskirin

Holy shit. Now I know why no one is commenting on my videos. I upload them to YouTube because tumblr won’t play them.

epicaistar

Glad other people notice that too! Made two posts about that issue on April this year. It is infuriating how bad Tumblr’s search engine is! 

BTW, Tumblr isn’t just hiding posts with links! It hides ANYTHING! Many drawings I made that are completely harmless, like DuckTales or Steven Universe, are still hidden! Same thing happens to my friends!

beaglebabe1

How annoying. Reblogged!

katoushair

Tumblr hides anything, no matter what the content is! No wonder why some posts get more hits than others. Also people miss out on art from other people. Tumblr really needs to fix that!

mylifewithfel

You can also post URL’s without the http://www… like just “google.com”. Readers would have to copypaste it. It’s annoying, but that’s all we got :(

rajii-scraps

I just tried it myself. I deleted the link to my FA page on my latest post here and now it shows as a result when I search it.
What a stupid thing to do Tumblr!

3mangos

Just deleted the links on my last post and yup, sure enough this has been happening for the longest time. Who knew! Be sure to spread the word.