About that post a couple hours ago that read “This is a test of the emergency systems. It will be deleted shortly.”:
I was checking whether deleting a post from Tumblr and then re-syncing my backups erases the backed-up post. Preliminary testing suggests that, for both local and WordPress copies, it does not.
While there are certainly flaws to that approach, I think it beats the alternatives. Especially given the…recent events on Tumblr.
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Relatedly, I’ve done a bit of looking around into alternative platforms, in case the worst occurs. I’ve particularly focused on platforms inter-operable with Mastodon (Mastodon is, after all, a Fediverse platform), hoping to be able to interact with Mastodon dwellers without being subject to the ridiculously small character limit.
It seems like all of the platforms listed as compatible want to be either Twitter or Facebook, with nothing that quite sates my love of reblog chains [link]. Pleroma [link] seems like it might do, I suppose, although it’s still awfully Twitter-y.
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