So of course the big thing everyone is talking about today is tumblr banning all adult content

[frelling_tralk]

Most of the user base don’t seem to have a clue where they want to move too now, I’ve seen the most references to MySpace actually, although I presume that’s mostly people joking? :P Must admit I don’t hate the thought of this giving fandom the final push to move away from tumblr, but nobody seems to have much of an idea of where they want to go

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[sidleypkhermit]

Wow, the game-of-telephone urban legend version of Strikethrough has gotten even worse since the last time I heard it! LMAO. I'm still sittin' here on LJ waiting for Cartoon Russia to ban me for being gay and meanwhile enjoying the experience of a platform with an actual business model...

[frelling_tralk]

Haha yes, I’m still awaiting the dire repercussions we were promised from the servers moving to Russia

[sidleypkhermit]

A+ icon :D

[frelling_tralk]

:)

[malicat]

The petty part in me is all like "that's what you get for thinking tumblr is better than LJ" because while I do use tumblr (mostly for reblogging fandom stuff,funny things and animal posts),it never could give me the sense of community and friendship that I got over here. Less here in recent years as well thanks to the mass exodus but still...

I was here when the big strikethrough happened but I actually don't remember that is was so damaging to LGBT blogs?

[frelling_tralk]

It wasn’t LGBT specifically, it was underage porn and incest from what I recall. Harry Potter users were targeted the most for things like drawing sexual fanart of the twins from HP together. SPN was targeted pretty heavily too I think for things like Wincest, and also Daddycest with John Winchester. Like I said above though, I can see why some fandom content must seem pretty bizarre to an outsider, and panic about just exactly what are we hosting on our site here. It was very much a knee jerk reaction that they didn’t think through after some religious/conservative group contacted them to complain about links they had come across on LJ, and they then ended up targeting things like nudity in icons in general which got pretty much everyone in an uproar

[cozycaffe]

Wow! I've been on lj for almost 20 years and I somehow do not remember the major strikethrough thing that happened? It might have been when I, myself, made an account on Twitter and used that a lot more and then I opened a Tumblr for Sims but I never heard anything wrong about lj. I do remember being surprised at how much lj had changed though and how many people had moved off it for Twitter and Tumblr

[frelling_tralk]

It all happened in 2007, that was what caused the first big exodus from LJ with everyone convinced that it was no longer a safe space for fandom. I created a DW as a backup last year finally, but I also always forget to check my flist over there, so probably it is pretty pointless to still have it really, although I guess I will move there if LJ does ever shut down for good. It’s the most similar to LJ anyway, so I don’t know where else I would go

It seems like Tumblr owners panicked big time after their app was removed by Apple for adult content, and this is the result

[cozycaffe]

Oh, I remember people freaking out about the changes and not feeling secure about lj anymore but that's about all *laughs*

[frelling_tralk]

It does feel like forever ago now!

[domluver]

I only remember a little bit of the big LJ strike but that didn't really effect my fandoms/friends all that much. Later on and as people go older that's what killed it really. *shrug* I'm not going to leave tumblr, people are making a big stink about it but people will still stay. Besides I've been on LJ for 12 years going to take me a lot to leave this too.

[frelling_tralk]

It didn’t really affect my fandoms much either because I’ve never been into Harry Potter, and I didn’t start watching Supernatural until the fourth season, but I do remember it being an issue that nearly all of my flist was talking about, and then there was some fandom comm set up in protest to represent just how many fandom people were members of LJ

[perpetual]

I wish everyone would leave Tumblr and come back to LJ. But then, that's what I've wished for as long as Tumblr has existed.

[frelling_tralk]

Same :(