As a user of tumblr since something like 2008 (oh no has it been that long) it wasn’t the removal of porn that ruined it for me, it was the collateral damage th

As a user of tumblr since something like 2008 (oh no has it been that long) it wasn’t the removal of porn that ruined it for me, it was the collateral damage that came with it. For the month before it happened my feed was a list of all the interesting people announcing that they were leaving for alternative platforms. It was the impetus to just abandon the place, not helped by the fact it seemingly hadn’t changed at all under yahoo’s neglect and the spam was omnipresent. I had used it as a scrap book, there was genuinely interesting art and design content on the site, from illustrators portfolios to photographers work to architecture blogs. Maybe it’s found it’s place with hyper specific fandoms around tv shows as seems to be what’s suggested logging in again but part of me is sad that something that was genuinely great was squandered.