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I'd say instagram is the other big one for artists, not twitter. Instagram has all the functionality of tumblr with even more accessibility.
by debaserab2 8y ago
I'd say instagram is the other big one for artists, not twitter. Instagram has all the functionality of tumblr with even more accessibility.
- wukerplank 8y agoExcept for some very fundamental things (AKA "link in bio"). But yes, most artists I know moved away from Tumblr years ago (with great success).
- nickthegreek 8y agoI've known several photographers who have lost 25k, 100k+ followings by being banned from instagram for posts that did not break the ToS. This has been devastating to their careers as freelance artists. I wouldn't recommend leaving a more tolerant platform (tumblr) to put all your eggs in a FB owned basket. With instagram, it all seems to depend on who the mod is who got assigned the reported photo to look at. Many of these artists now run a backup instagram and promote it on their primary account about once every 2 weeks to keep a solid follower count on it in case their main gets the hammer.
- pmarreck 8y agoClass-action lawsuit grounds?
- code_duck 8y agoSame with all sorts of legal cannabis business related pages. I see a lot of seed companies, dispensaries, culture/meme accounts with fallback accounts and bios saying ‘deleted at 25k...’, etcetera. It’s the same situation as consumers have long faced with Facebook, Twitter, Etsy and so forth - they don’t seem to care that other people invest time and money in their accounts, which the company tosses aside so easily.
- wishinghand 8y agoBut none of the permissiveness that old Tumblr had. I believe the new TOS for tumblr are still more liberal than the ones for current Instagram.
- fl0wenol 8y agoI hope not... Instagram has terrible usability if you don't have a Facebook account and/or don't want to install the app on mobile. Tumblr was at least tolerable in that scenario.