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With the new update to Tumblr's community guidelines announcing that they will no longer permit adult content on their site, we'd like to take a moment to reassure all y'all that we have your backs. With a very few exceptions (such as spam and the like), if it's legal under US law, it's okay to post here. We're 100% user-supported, with no advertisers and no venture capitalists to please, and that means we're here for you, not for shady conglomerates that buy up your data and use it in nefarious ways.

Tumblr's definition of "adult content" seems to be inherently visual, and I also wanted to remind people that we do have basic image hosting. (It's definitely not as slick and easy to use as Tumblr's, I won't lie, but it does exist.) If you want to include images in your posts, you can upload them and the site will give you HTML that you can paste into your entry. Or, if you have post-by-email set up, just attach the image to the end of your email and it'll be posted. All users have a 500MB image hosting quota right now. I know that's small for people looking for a place to host NSFW image blogs, but we are reviewing usage statistics to see if we can increase it, or at least make it possible for people to pay for more quota like you can for more icons.

For those asking whether we have a mobile app: we don't at the moment! There are many (soooooo many) prerequisites that we have to do first, which we've been working on but haven't yet finished, because we're dealing with a lot of systems and architecture decisions that were made nearly 20 years ago by now. (A mobile app would also be subject to the same censorship pressure Tumblr faced -- it's looking pretty good that Apple taking the Tumblr app out of the App Store was the proximate cause of Tumblr's content guidelines change, and Apple is notoriously strict on apps for sites that allow user-generated content -- so even once we have one, it's even odds on how long it'll be able to stay available for certain platforms.) We've been trying to improve the website's experience on small screens in the meantime, and that's an ongoing project that we'll do our best to devote some more attention to over the next few months.

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Somehow I don't feel ok with that at all. A nazi is a nazi and should never be allowed to say "hey, I'm a supremacist!". Because that means we respect them. But ih well.

Eh, there's a difference between respecting someone as a person and respecting them as an authority, isn't it?

You can respect people's right to say dumbass or even awful shit without respecting their "right" to push that shit on other people.

They obviously have the right to think whatever... but if this were my site, which isn't and I respect the people who manage it (wouldn't try to godmod anyone), I would just band anyone showing such behaviours or beliefs. I have an extreme aversion to fascists, we suffer them a lot here in Spain, specially my town, and well, it was just a thought I let out.

Hey, that's totally fair.

In the place where I grew up, I was on the receiving end of that kinda banning/ostracizing for being gay. I don't want anyone to have to go through that, even if they really deserve it- especially because if there's a group of people who does "deserve" it, it's really easy to lump everyone you hate in with that group.

You got the right to your opinion, though, and I'm sorry you have to deal with those fuckers.

In my mind it goes down to this: if your behaviour and ideas go against other people and cause harm (like being a racist, homophobe, xenophobe, anti feminist piece of shit), then it's not a valid opinion, it's a menace for society.

I get it, everyone has the freedom to express themselves. But that doesn't mean you are right or valid. So ok, they can say whatever they want. I'll just block the hell out of anyone who's like what I mentioned above.

I would put up explicit rules for that if it were my site... but as I said, it isn't, so I'll just have to go with it.

Honestly, I’m not fond of that sort of content/those sort of people either, but based on my experience, it’s MORE important to have a clear, bright-line test for content you don’t like or are personally offended by, because you’re more likely to react emotionally when you see it. And the problem with a “disallow people saying things that are -ist” policy is that no two people will agree on what qualifies. So drawing the lines around behavior and what people are doing with their terrible opinions, rather than a moral judgement about the opinions themselves, makes it much more likely that two random people will agree that this particular thing is against the ToS, and more likely that we can make people understand exactly how and where the lines are drawn, which is seriously important.

Thanks for your input and point of view. I really appreciate it. I think I understand what you're saying and I see why it's a beneficial way to handle this.

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