So, my dears, here is my Tumblr migration info post. I’ll use it to
collect info and updates about saving your stuff, finding new homes and
all that dealio. You can also find it on my Twitter, my Dreamwidth and my Pillowfort.
I’ve seen some people panicking, but remember all us Fandom Olds have been through this before. It
sucks to lose all that investment, but it is not the end. In fact,
we’re well-prepared these days because we learned from those times.
We’ve got tools for archiving content–both yours and the content from
others you can’t bear to lose–and for migrating and staying in touch
with your friends.
And while I have your attention: Support AO3. Support the OTW. Support EFF. Support the ALA. Fight for net neutrality. This is just the beginning of what happens if we lose it.
I may have found some help to archive my blog (thank goodness). I just posted about it below.
If you need help with your blog or know of blogs that are in danger please reach out to them so we don’t lose it!
One post that I had under review has been unflagged, at least we know the process works. And takes about 2 days…ish.
I just got my pillowfort key so I’ll be on today!
This blog will be diverging a bit until this whole tumblr thing is over, I’ll have Sherlock posts sprinkled in among posts to help archive and find fandom after December 17th
Please submit all endangered Tumblrs you care about in this form. Also please spread the message.
Hello Tumblr users,
we are the Archive Team, the Archive Team is a loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers,
writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage. Since
2009 this variant force of nature has caught wind of shutdowns,
shutoffs, mergers, and plain old deletions – and done our best to save
the history before it’s lost forever. We already worked on other Yahoo related projects like GeoCities and Flickr.
i’m just gonna post all the ways i’ve found so far to get RSS Links They Don’t Want You To Know About from social media sites, because people keep Leaving Tumblr Forever in favor of sites that i’m not going to use
(if you don’t have an rss reader yet just make a feedly account, it takes about one whole minute, if you decide to use a different reader later you can export your whole list, it’s fine)
i’m gonna use strikethrough to indicate the text you need to replace and also include examples of feeds that seem to work
A General Rule
on almost any website look for the icon that looks like this
that’s the button that means ‘the rss feed is here’
Tumblr
just add /rss to the end of literally any blog’s url, including tags
i.e. unpretty.tumblr.com/rss or unpretty.tumblr.com/tagged/original/rss
now you can Leave Tumblr Forever and still follow blogs until such a time as tumblr implodes in earnest
Dreamwidth
use username.dreamwidth.org/data/rss
i.e. gallusrostromegalus.dreamwidth.org/data/rss
WordPress
if it’s hosted on WordPress.com, just add /feed to the end of the url
if it’s self-hosted (i think around 20% of people who have their own website use wordpress to host it, i know i do bc it’s easy as sin) also just add /feed to the end the url
i.e. en.blog.wordpress.com/feed or kittyunpretty.com/feed
ArtStation
use username.artstation.com/rss
i.e. beccahallstedt.artstation.com/rss
Mastodon
just add .rss to the end of someone’s profile url
i.e. cybre.space/@kittyunpretty.rss
deviantART
use backend.deviantart.com/rss.xml?q=gallery%3Ausername
i.e. backend.deviantart.com/rss.xml?q=gallery%3Aarvalis
YouTube
this one’sa goddamn pain in the dick because you need to find the channel id first
in general youtube channels have a nonsense url like youtube.com/channel/abunchofbullshit
you have to take that last bit and plug it into youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=abunchofbullshit
i.e. youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCbpMy0Fg74eXXkvxJrtEn3w
Tapas
this is mostly handy for webcomics that were hosting on tumblr and crossposting, i think? i don’t know how tapas works for creators tbqh. anyway they’ve actually got a button at the top when you go to the comic page.
the one between ‘add to library’ and the paper airplane will give you the rss feed
LINE Webtoons
ditto wrt tumblr-hosted webcomics, and also having a button
the button to the left of the one that says +subscribe will get you the rss feed
Twitter & Instagram
these are the only two sites i’m including that don’t have native rss support, just because so goddamn many people have literally no other web presence at all for some reason
twitter used to have rss feeds but killed them, and i don’t think instagram ever had them. you have to use workarounds for these, and a lot of them end up getting killed, like TwitRSS.me. fetchrss seems to work okay but it costs money. if you pay for inoreader they’ve got built-in support for following twitter accounts but that’s not a practical solution for most people.
right now i use rsshub.app/platform/user/username
i.e. rsshub.app/twitter/user/dasharez0ne
… but the instagram one doesn’t actually seem to work, like, most of the time. i don’t know if i’ve found one that works ever. if you’re jumping ship there please consider doing the world the enormous goddamn favor of just making a free wordpress.com account and cross-posting all your instas with ifttt or something, rather than being totally at the mercy of mark zuckerberg
word of advice to anyone exporting/downloading their blogs – anything below a cut will not be included in the download. i downloaded my art blog and it didn’t save any media files or text from below the cut on those
so, just fyi: if you have a post with a “read more” you’ll want to manually save that information
s e r i o u s l y ? ?
I have not verified this, but something to check if you’re exporting posts.
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.
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.io – closed beta. should function almost identically to tumblr but with many many improvements
poizen.me – development 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.co – pre-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!
if that’s still a little daunting you can try soarcodes’ tumblr post that also has a decent tutorial!
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.
I have gotten tons of messages about my Sherlock Pride photo. First off, thank you so much. It really has lifted my spirits during this very sad time. I want to touch on things I keep getting asked about:
You have my permission to share it. Of course I would like credit, but I know that credit can’t be squeezed in everywhere. Getting the photo/message out there is more important to me than credit. If you’re not making money off of it, have at it. Spread the love.
It is in fact a photo I made from scratch, not a manipulation! I am flattered that people think it’s a manip though (lowkey wanted to fool some people into thinking it was an official photo). I obviously wanted to replicate the promo pictures that were released at the end of December.
I focused on shooting Sherlock first, then getting the flag. Being Sherlock was a ball, per usual. It’s hard not to feel like a superhero swooshing the coat around like that. The flag SUCKED SO MUCH DICK. You can see a fraction of the struggle in the gif. I hope it looked silky and effortless in the photo, but in reality it was chunky and cumbersome and wouldn’t cooperate with me at all. It took me HOURS to get one good shot of the flag. Thankfully, the winning shot turned out better than I imagined. I love how it slightly wraps around the back a little. UGH, so worth it. I did a few wardrobe variations with a scarf and different button ups, but decided to keep it simple. The concrete wall I edited in is the shitty view from my NYC apartment lmao. The only thing that was created in photoshop was the wallpaper and smiley.
I shot on a Canon 5D Mark III with a 28-70mm L lens and my Profoto D1 Air lights. Shooting took about 6 hours from set up to breakdown of the lights and equipment. It was a rough shoot… Like I said capturing a fluttering flag or coat is all about being patient and taking a million shots until you get a good one. In addition to that, I was shooting in my apartment and my building controls the heat. These old timey radiators blast all winter. So: radiator from hell, plus a button up, plus a heavy knee length Sherlock jacket, plus swinging around like a maniac for hours and you have one unhappy, overheated Iris. But let me tell you, when I get fixated on an idea literally nothing can stop me.
If you have any more questions send them my way! I have read every single message and comment. I try to look at all the tags and follow everyone back but it can be hard to keep up. I love you all!
Hells yeah, I got this post unflagged by tumblr
UPDATE: Tumblr Doomsday Day 2
I’ve gone through my fanart tags and the TJLC tag, sent some posts off to be reviewed if I was able (sometimes I have the option to and I’m not sure why) or sent them to the OP to have them fixed.
There are posts on those tags that will disappear cause the OPs are gone due to deactivation or they haven’t been on in ages. I will be backing up those posts starting tomorrow and reposting them making it VERY clear that these are not mine/will put as much info as a I can to show that and are only being reposted for archival purposes. Should the filters be fixed, I’ll delete the reposts.
I’ll be heading through the ship tags next. And then focusing on meta/theory posts
Next week I’ll start backing up my entire blog elsewhere and continue searching for flagged posts.
I’ve backed up my content from this account and my Fandomfanworks sideblog, and am in the process of creating a public-facing archive of the latter at fandomandfanworks.wordpress.com.
My contact and other sites are in my AO3 profile, which I’ll keep up to date. For the moment, I’m splitting time and efforts between recently_folded on pillowfort and recently-folded on dreamwidth.
I’ll be leaving tumblr because I just cannot endorse censorship. And given the things that are being flagged vs what remains legit, I feel that this is clearly a case of censorship rather than “safe” space maintenance. Further, I don’t actually support the notion of a squeaky-clean sex-free world.
That means that as of Dec. 16, I’ll be deleting both of my accounts. I am not going to move on and leave my work here for tumblr to continue to monetize. Anything you see after that date that looks as though it’s me: it won’t be.
I’ll miss all of the folks I currently follow. I’ll miss my followers. I’ll miss the random people who’ve reblogged my posts whom I’ve never gotten to know. I’ll miss the fans and artists and writers and other cool folk who’ve populated my dash here and gave me so much entertainment and pleasure. At a time in history where we’re all losing so much as western capitalist society implodes, I hate to give this up too. But censorship is not something I can participate in, even if I am powerless to stop it.
Okay, so @havingbeenbreathedout thinks something like this may already be going around, but the only one I’ve seen so far was single-fandom-specific and also now I can’t find it; and I also don’t know if it had notes about Tumblr archives, which this does. If there is already one going around, please tell me and also tell me how I can get in touch with the owner, if it’s not obvious, because I want to either add the info about Tumblr backups, or link to this sheet. @roane72 linked us to extant sheet, @copperbadge‘s “Tumblr “Find Me” Directory”, and I strongly encourage you to use that for tracking people, and just use this for Tumblr archive info! The spreadsheet has been updated accordingly.
This spreadsheet grants edit permission to anyone with the link, so: the first rule of the post-Tumblr Tumblr Archive Tracker is: don’t be an asshole. The second rule of the post-Tumblr Tumblr Archive Tracker is: don’t be an asshole.
If you’re down with #1 and #2: go ahead and add your info over here. Since @copperbadge did the work to get the yellow pages side going, the primary use of this sheet is for archiving purposes: you are strongly encouraged to note whether or not your Tumblr has been archived (either locally, or to an external site like WordPress), and if it hasn’t, also note if you would like some help getting it archived before 12/17 (see the “This is my Tumblr and I would like help archiving it!” dropdown, Column F).
I have limited space on my personal machine but I’m going to be digging up every functioning hard drive I can find in my apartment to pull content as and when I can; once I have some drives up and running, I’m going to start referring to this sheet to see whose stuff I should download, and I encourage other people with time/Python fu/hard drive space to do the same. Then we’ll just have to deal with the headache of us getting it to you, but I’d rather have to deal with that than deal with lost content.
For liability issues: I’m only going to pull fannish blogs, and I’m going to prioritize blogs I follow (this isn’t because I think the rest of all y’all are evil, it’s because I want to know what I’m putting on my own personal hard drives). I’m also not going to back up anyone’s blog unless they actively request that someone do so. If you do request a backup, and I go to your blog and it’s not obvious that you’re a fan, I’m not, myself, going to back up your content; but I’ll leave you in the spreadsheet for someone else to grab unless your entry is obviously abusive.
[last edited 2018.12.04 10:01 PST]
@roane72 hooked me up! Thanks, @roane72! This is great news, it means we can just use this spreadsheet for tracking Tumblr content archives and cross-reference with the work @copperbadge has already done. There are already about 1500 fans in @copperbadge‘s directory, including me, now—come find your friends!
Sherlock Fandom Archive 