slytherinpokegirl:

The only people to blame for children under the age of 10 having “addictions” to smart phones, tablets, and technology in general is the parents. I don’t want to hear people complain about their 4 year old knowing how to play with the settings on their ipad. You put the iPad in your kid’s life. You gave a 4 year old their own ipad. They learned to use it. You did that. It’s your fault. Don’t blame kid’s for poor parenting, incompetence, and laziness when it comes to raising children.

mamoru:

mamoru:

mamoru:

it just keeps happening

long story short bethesda accidentally doxxed people who complained

in case you missed it, the chain of events is roughly as follows:

1. fallout 76 launches. it is entirely online. there are a lot of bugs. a whole lot of bugs. people report countless bugs, many of which are game-breaking. bethesda’s communication leaves a lot to be desired. fallout 76 officially has a no refund policy, but due to the large number of people requesting refunds, many refunds are issued.

throughout the following events, they are largely vague in regards to patches, support, outreach, and the fallout community is split between defending or criticizing their actions.

2. people begin to realize that the $200 collector’s edition, which promised a canvas bag, came with a low-quality nylon bag. bethesda claims it was too expensive to make the canvas bags and that they cannot possibly honor their $200 bundle, despite promotional material listing the canvas bag as part of the bundle up until release and until shortly after.

3. bethesda offers 500 in-game atoms (game currency) to individuals who purchased the collector’s edition. to receive the atoms, players must submit a support ticket with personal information, images, and proof of purchase. it is worth noting that these 500 atoms are worth approximately $5 USD, and cannot even purchase an in-game canvas bag.

4. after significant backlash, bethesda begins producing the promised canvas bags. to get the bag, people have until january 31st to submit a support ticket proving they purchased the collector’s edition. again, this requires submitting a ticket with ample personal information.

5. at some point, everyone’s support tickets became viewable to people who submit their own support tickets. meaning, the full names, usernames, addresses, phone numbers, emails, proof of purchases, and partial credit card details of everyone who submit a support ticket for any bethesda product were viewable. it also allowed anyone to open or close anyone else’s support tickets. bethesda effectively doxxed the most hardcore of their fanbase – the ones who spent the most money and were most likely long time fans. the long time fans who may have been inclined to defend bethesda up until this point. following this leak, a huge chunk of even the most hardcore fans have stopped defending bethesda.

the status of the leaked data is currently unknown. it is also unknown how long the leaked information was visible. several people took screenshots, meaning that it was possible for all of the leaked personal information to have been collected, scraped, or otherwise saved with nefarious intent.

summarized by a screencap from the linked article:

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masterpost of tumblr alternatives

olderglow:

this post will be updated as I find more websites to add! please check with the original before reblogging to see if there’s an updated version, and message me with corrections or more suggestions if you have them!!

websites in red have explicitly forbidden the posting of NSFW content. websites in orange allow certain types of NSFW content or have questionable / unclear guidelines.

for general use

  • friendproject.net – built on myspace, great blog customization
  • gab.ai – added for completeness, but has a huge alt-right + racism issue
  • joinmastodon.org – basically like if twitter and discord had a child??
  • mewe.com – privacy-focused, has groups and private messages
  • minds.com – allows you to exchange traffic for being promoted (??)
  • myspace.com – yes, it still exists, i’m just as surprised as you
  • nibblebit.com – similar to tumblr with reblogs / likes / customizing of blogs
  • pinterest.ca – easy sharing and collecting, but has many issues with theft
  • swarmr.com – an exact tumblr clone down to the default images (??)
  • twitter.com – allows posting both text and photos in sets, allows retweets

geared towards writers and bloggers

  • archiveofourown.org – specializes in hosting fic, excellent tagging system
  • dreamwidth.org – a blogging site similar to livejournal or wordpress
  • fanfiction.net – another big name in fanfic posting
  • livejournal.com – technically an option, likely unsafe for LGBTQ peeps
  • mibba.com – for creative writers, centered around community feedback
  • quotev.com – decent website for original / fan fic and fandom quizzes
  • royalroad.com – hosts webnovels and other fanfic, nice dark theme
  • wattpad.com – modern pretty fic site with direct links to irl publishers
  • wordpress.com – old and well-established, often considered the default

geared towards artists and photographers

  • artstation.com – excellent website for posting professional art portfolios
  • behance.net – meant for professionals posting various visual media types
  • deviantart.com – huge community, allows posting art + sorting into folders
  • flickr.com – great community for photographers, can join groups
  • furaffinity.net – similar to DA but for furries, easy to display commish info
  • galleria.emotionflow.com – very similar to pixiv, with imo better tagging
  • instagram.com – photo and video posts, excellent tag search
  • newgrounds.com – an oldie but a goodie, allows a ton of media types
  • piczel.tv – allows both streaming and posting art / photosets to a gallery
  • pixiv.net – huge anime art community, allows livestreaming
  • vero.co – app only, similar to insta but with MUCH more privacy control

chat or forum based

  • aminoapps.com – community-based, has blogs + chat, custom themes
  • discordapp.com – great chat app, text + voice, can join infinite servers
  • reddit.com – literally a community for everything, SO MANY CAT PHOTOS

18+ only

  • bdsmlr.com – microblogging + social media for people into kink
  • blogr.xxx – a tumblr clone created specifically for sharing porn
  • fetlife.com – considered one of the biggest kink communities online
  • libertine.center – beautiful + modern site for posting irl nsfw and kink stuff
  • thefetlibrary.com – for posting of erotic stories, replaces bdsmlibrary

paid platforms

  • patreon.com – subscription-based access to many diff types of content
  • typepad.com – similar to wordpress but with reblogging and a dash

up-and-coming platforms

  • pillowfort.ioclosed beta. should function almost identically to tumblr but with many many improvements
  • poizen.medevelopment alpha. gorgeous website for artists to post art AND track comms
    • this one’s still early in development but looks incredibly promising as a platform and super pretty to look at!! go snap up a username before all the good ones are taken! favouritism what’s that
  • qink.copre-alpha. 18+ only. plans to be a kink-oriented replacement for tumblr.

defunct platforms

(so people will stop telling me i forgot them)

  • jux.com – shut down in 2014 due to lack of funds
  • shoandtell.me – now redirects to someone’s personal blog
  • soup.io – more or less closed down this year due to GDPR issues

ways to save your current tumblr posts

  • use the wayback machine! you do have to archive each page of your blog individually but once you do all the content, including media, will be saved exactly as it was at the moment you archived it.
  • wordpress allows you to directly import whole tumblr blogs, and if i recall correctly it’s something both dreamwidth and pillowfort have said they are working on.
  • tumblthree is a great tool with a ton of functions including downloading whole blogs, only posts tagged with a certain tag, all the posts you’ve liked, etc. etc. along with being able to download every type of media hosted on tumblr (pictures, videos, audio, everything). it also has a proper GUI so no computer knowledge required beyond downloading and running programs!
  • if you have some knowledge of computers you can try this github solution which uses a python script to download your whole blog to your computer. even if you don’t know anything about programming or the command line they give a very good beginners tutorial on how to use it so you should still give it a shot!
  • here’s another python script that should allow you to archive all the images from your blog or your likes, though it requires some knowledge of python and the command line or very very good google skills.

some notes

edit: please stop commenting on this post to self-promote your porn accounts on other sites. those replies / reblogs will be deleted or hidden.

please note that every site on this list will have pros and cons, and i haven’t listed them here since this post would be a mile long otherwise. please do your research before moving completely over to another site in case they have policies you disagree with.

also, because I see a lot of misinformed people ranting about this: deviantart does not own the art you post. some years ago hot topic stole a ton of art from DA and sold it on merchandise and people assumed that DA gave them permission to do it despite there being literally zero evidence for that claim. DA explictly states in their TOS that you retain copyright and sole license of the art you post.

and related, mastodon does not allow or condone CP or pedophilia. the people spreading this info are misinformed about what mastodon is. it is not an exact twitter clone; anyone anywhere can host a mastodon instance using their personal computer as a server, which means mastodon as a company can’t do jack shit to moderate them. what they DO is permanently block all users from every other instance from viewing or interacting with that instance, and add that instance to a publicly viewable list along with the reason for the block. please give their post about anti-abuse measures a read before making snap judgements.

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WITCHY PSA

teaberrymagic:

therestlesswitch:

0303neet-hime:

witchy-queer:

DON’T YOU DARE PUT SALT IN THE GROUND.

DO NOT CAST SALT CIRCLE IN THE DIRT.
DO NOT SALT THE GROUND TO CLEANSE IT.
DO NOT BURY SACHETS THAT INCLUDE SALT.

STOP SALTING THE GROUND.

YOU WILL MESS UP THE SOIL AND HURT THE PLANT LIFE.
USE SOMETHING ELSE.

Alternatives : rice , potatoes , plant seeds ,sweet onions , eggshels , baked sun water , pocket sand and bones

Preferably not rice.. if birds eat it it can kill them. My preference is crushed eggshells or bonemeal. Good for the soil, safe for the environment, safe for wildlife. 

Can the rice kills birds myth stop going around again? There’s literally no reason to think that rice kills birds. There are literally studies showing that this doesn’t happen. Rice is biodegradable, cheap, and a far better alternative to salt witch circles laid out in nature. Use rice.

SIGN THIS PETITION TO KEEP ADULT CONTENT

screwingwithsfm:

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https://www.change.org/p/tumblr-com-allow-nsfw-content-on-tumblr
https://www.change.org/p/tumblr-com-allow-nsfw-content-on-tumblr
https://www.change.org/p/tumblr-com-allow-nsfw-content-on-tumblr

Tumblr wants to take away all adult content on the platform, abandoning a large majority of it’s userbase which uses the site for this exact matter. Please sign the above petition if you would like to keep tumblr the way it is. They need to be shown that they will lose a HUGE amount of their traffic if they’re too carry this through.

Link to tumblr’s post: https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Sensitive-content

PLEASE REBLOG AND SHARE

healsbian:

controversial but in my many years as a minor on tumblr i’ve never seen a single sex worker. they always block minors, mark their blogs as nsfw, and don’t spam the popular sfw tags. even if you, as a minor, actually look for them, as long as you listed your age truthfully in the registration, you won’t be able to find them.

what i, instead, saw as a minor was:

porn bots (which could be stopped by: captcha, double confirmation for accounts, not allowing url shorteners, not allowing rebloggers to delete captions, i would even be ok with hyperlinks not being allowed in reblogs)

fetishes and kinksters (which could be stopped by: adding more tags to the nsfw filter, including fetishes/kinks that appear as sfw)

people who forget tag their shit (which could be stopped by: an auto-tagging system for sensitive tags that would work similarly to the current block for apparently nsfw posts, but can give the op the option to delete incorrect tags)

pro-ana, pro-mia, romanticization of self-harm (which could be stopped by: banning the whole tag, as it just happened)

nazi, terfs (just kick them out for hate speech like twitter does)

pro-map thankfully only appeared once i was already past 18 but of course you could just ban the whole community + tag as it just happened.

prevent usernames with words that hate and pedophilic groups use to flag from being chosen at blog creation.

while i know that tumblr is a 13+ website, nsfw content was hidden from minors last year. most cp was deleted + outlawed (both irl and drawn) for good not even last month. and while those are recent changes they did make tumblr, overall, 13+ appropriate.

i do not care much for porn, i just feel like they are solving the problem the wrong way and punishing a group of people who did nothing to harm minors. there were smarter solutions to this problem that were ignored in the favor of a very sloppy solution that doesn’t even cover stuff like sfw kink blogs, porn bots who don’t post pictures (most of them), people who just won’t tag their nsfw, hate groups and other non-sex related communities who are extremely dangerous for minors.

dingdongyouarewrong:

dracophile:

grimly68:

officialwadewillson:

Lmfao

Fun fact: she left Yahoo citing the staggering incompetence of management and development teams. She was brought in to salvage Yahoo and they proceeded to ignore her and belittle her every chance she got.

Where’s that post about bringing in a woman to run a project they intend to fail so they can blame her or some shit?

Glass Cliff