I am deeply invested in the Homestuck fandom and will be sticking around on Tumblr, but this is obvs going to become a much more unviable platform for tailored content. Just not worth the effort expense with how much the audience is going to shrink.
I am giving a lot of thought to where the fandom might go from here and how it might benefit. Watch this space for updates and hopefully we’ll all find ourselves somewhere entirely new soon enough–Ideally, somewhere where actual communities can be built. Remember forums? Those were fun.
See y’all later I am distancing myself from this and gathering my thoughts for right now.
“Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr,”
This is easily the most disappointing solution possible.
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genuinely unsure what this means for even just discussing canon homestuck all things considered lmao, press f to pay respects
i’ll be sticking around on tumblr yet but im giving serious thoughts to how to build homestuck fandom hubs elsewhere on pillowfort or other similar options, feel free to reach out
tbh in some ways this’ll be good for the homestuck fandom, tumblr’s been a terrible platform for the community for years in a lot of ways. too decentralized and easy to exploit for abuse/harrasment. wont miss it much when im ready to move on.
Thanks! As for your question, uh. I don’t really know? It’s sort of a custom setup at this point, and I got help from some cool friends figuring out some details. Also its still kind of a work in progress!
I’m happy to like, idk, export the settings or whatever, except that I don’t know how to do that either. But if anyone’s interested and has the know how, shoot me an ask? Otherwise I’ll figure out how to do it eventually! Thanks 😀
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.
hm. Blogs? It’s kind of hard for me to say without knowing what you like, but off the top of my head I guess I’d mention some like Fandom Favorites or people I think are pretty cool. But like, it’s hard for me to say without knowing who you are, baasically because I don’t know if you’re a minor and there’s quite a bit of nsfw stuff out there I wouldn’t risk sharing.
@moonpaw17 and @dyonoi are good peeps to start with if you’re into davekat and cute comics and stuff. I’ve always enjoyed @heir-of-puns ‘s blog because it tends to have a pretty even distribution of homestuck fandom content. Ditto @sometipsygnostalgic who’s done some really funny post-canon comics tho im not sure if theyre as active recently.
I guess without knowing you and what you’re looking for better that’s about what i’d say?
Oh, damn. I didn’t even realize, I am not particularly well-versed in Tumblr themeing.
If someone happens to see this and knows how, how can I add that feature? or is there like a better theme for this kind of meta-focused blog or something, or…anythin? ^^;;
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