Tumblr Post+ Protest

[soc_puppet]

Anyway, yeah, I'll be logging off of Tumblr in a few hours as part of Phase Two of the Post+ Protest. I'm afraid I don't actually expect Tumblr to take Post+ away; a lot of websites are married pretty hard to the Sunk Cost Fallacy, and Tumblr has sunk waaaay too much into Post+ to abandon it without at least a few years of trying to make it work. But I'm sure y'all have already gathered how big a proponent I am of Dreamwidth, and, well, any excuse to get people to check it out!

Official logoff time starts in about 3.25 hours after this post goes up, and lasts for 48 hours. We'll see what happens!

Comments

[capri0mni]

It's a thing Tumblr is trying out, to get people with Tumblr accounts to put a portion of their content behind a paywall... From which, Tumblr will take a cut (naturally).

The really bad thing is that, in Tumblr's first announcements of this shiny "new feature," they were encouraging account holders to get paid for their fan art and fanfic... which is illegal. And also, in the fine print about Post+, they absolved themselves of all responsibility, and won't defend any user if they get sued for their fan art or fanfic.