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@somnilogical, I wanted to thank you for your efforts in being a Tumblr Purge News Network. I’ve found it very helpful.

i like to do lots of meta when thinking of changes. im kind of using my tumblr to pinboard possibility-space of where humans could go

im also downloading every app and signing up for every website someone mentions and poking around in them to see what theyre like

Yeah, it’s bedtime for me now but tomorrow I’ll be doing some poking around too.

And researching backup methods for all the potential sites, because fuck having a mere single copy of anything.

(If I parsed the jargon correctly, this Mastodon backup program [link] is compatible with Pleroma? *If*. I’ll test it soon, probably tomorrow.)

If you self host Mastodon you could just back up straight from the database on your server.

Even if I get a handle on how to do that on a technical level, I’d need to rent a URL for it, right?

If I decide to settle down in the Fediverse I will seriously consider self-hosting, but I’m not ready to drop money on it yet.

Either that or an instance ran by someone else. 

(see also this other branch I was in)

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(I know I’ve been trying to stick to links in the “[link]” form lately, because–at least IME–these days it’s not always easy to tell in the dashboard view whether something is a link or not, but this post really does flow a lot better with embedded links.)

This notepad draft has been through a couple iterations today as I learn more stuff and think of more possibilities, but I guess I’ll post it now. Everything is still pretty up in the air, though.

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I have made an account @brinbellway@pleroma.site. I do not know yet whether I will be posting anything there, or just reading. I will probably not stay on that instance long-term, unless maybe I only use it as a dashboard.

I made a Scuttlebutt account, but upon poking around in it I don’t think it’s really suitable for my current needs. I might try it someday, but not now.

I am fairly confident that my future OPs will be on Dreamwidth: https://brin-bellway.dreamwidth.org. There may also be link roundups and/or roundups of comments I’ve posted. 

Definitely for at least a little while, I will post links to new DW entries on Tumblr. The thought occurred to me this evening that I *could* do that indefinitely, and simply see whether the censors ever notice what some of those external posts are about.

Yes, I see the place is falling apart. Yes, I don’t trust the devs further than I could throw their server racks. Yes, I know they won’t want deviants like me here.

But what are they going to do? Delete me?

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(You know what, I’m going to move the tag ramble into the main post body. I think I don’t want it to get left out of any reblogs, and if nothing else it’s less work for the future self cleaning up this WordPress-mirror entry.)

#I’m gonna go ahead and preserve the tag   #The Last Tumblr Apocalypse   #regardless of what happens next   #even if I end up not being in the first wave of evacuation I still believe   #that people looking back will see this as the beginning of the end   #but honestly the past couple days have been a fucking emotional whirlwind   #and I have not had enough sleep today   #and I don’t really know what I think anymore   #(and because this *is* still a Tumblr-hosted post I am trying very hard not to make any innuendos about any of that)   #just… bear with me‚ okay? bear with all of us‚ as we figure this out together

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brin-bellway:

@somnilogical, I wanted to thank you for your efforts in being a Tumblr Purge News Network. I’ve found it very helpful.

i like to do lots of meta when thinking of changes. im kind of using my tumblr to pinboard possibility-space of where humans could go

im also downloading every app and signing up for every website someone mentions and poking around in them to see what theyre like

Yeah, it’s bedtime for me now but tomorrow I’ll be doing some poking around too.

And researching backup methods for all the potential sites, because fuck having a mere single copy of anything.

(If I parsed the jargon correctly, this Mastodon backup program [link] is compatible with Pleroma? *If*. I’ll test it soon, probably tomorrow.)

If you self host Mastodon you could just back up straight from the database on your server.

Even if I get a handle on how to do that on a technical level, I’d need to rent a URL for it, right?

If I decide to settle down in the Fediverse I will seriously consider self-hosting, but I’m not ready to drop money on it yet.

Renting a domain for a URL is around $10/year.

Renting the shittiest server possible is already around $60/year, and I’d be surprised if the shittiest server possible would be enough to handle Mastodon. And the effect on your electric bill of using your own computer as a server is around $200/year

There also exist free domains, but like in no universe is $10/year not a drop in the bucket compared to the overall price of hosting a server.

Pleroma boasts that one can run an instance on a Raspberry Pi [link], but again this is really not my area and I would be unsurprised to learn that this is far less impressive than they are trying to make it sound.

Probably the figures I’ve encountered over the years about domain costs were actually varying levels of package deal.

I had some further details here about cost estimates, but honestly I think they’re beside the point. There exist *some* financial costs to self-hosting, and I could tell that much even without having any experience in such matters, and that was enough to dissuade me from jumping straight into the deep end. When and if (*big* if) I decide that I am willing to pay money for a server, *then* I’ll research exactly how much it would cost me and compare that figure to the amount I am willing to pay (not to mention the amount of effort involved in determining which knowledge and skills I would even need, and then acquiring them).

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canmom:

I wrote a longer post but it basically boils down to… I wish people wouldn’t confuse Mastodon (software anyone can run to make a Mastodon instance), individual Mastodon instances (whose rules may be strict or lax, at the whim of the admins), and the ‘fediverse’ of Mastodon instances that may or may not be sharing content with one another (again depending on what the users interact with, and which other instances the admins of individual instances choose to defederate with)

Basically your experience of Mastodon will depend very very much which Mastodon instance you join, just like your experience of PHPBB will depend what forum you join, or your experience of IRC will depend on which server and rooms you join. Except not quite, because you might unexpectedly federate with other instances… but that’s a better comparison for what Mastodon is than centralised platforms with rules like Tumblr and Twitter.

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brin-bellway:

@somnilogical, I wanted to thank you for your efforts in being a Tumblr Purge News Network. I’ve found it very helpful.

i like to do lots of meta when thinking of changes. im kind of using my tumblr to pinboard possibility-space of where humans could go

im also downloading every app and signing up for every website someone mentions and poking around in them to see what theyre like

Yeah, it’s bedtime for me now but tomorrow I’ll be doing some poking around too.

And researching backup methods for all the potential sites, because fuck having a mere single copy of anything.

(If I parsed the jargon correctly, this Mastodon backup program [link] is compatible with Pleroma? *If*. I’ll test it soon, probably tomorrow.)

If you self host Mastodon you could just back up straight from the database on your server.

Even if I get a handle on how to do that on a technical level, I’d need to rent a URL for it, right?

If I decide to settle down in the Fediverse I will seriously consider self-hosting, but I’m not ready to drop money on it yet.

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somnilogical:

brin-bellway:

@somnilogical, I wanted to thank you for your efforts in being a Tumblr Purge News Network. I’ve found it very helpful.

i like to do lots of meta when thinking of changes. im kind of using my tumblr to pinboard possibility-space of where humans could go

im also downloading every app and signing up for every website someone mentions and poking around in them to see what theyre like

Yeah, it’s bedtime for me now but tomorrow I’ll be doing some poking around too.

And researching backup methods for all the potential sites, because fuck having a mere single copy of anything.

(If I parsed the jargon correctly, this Mastodon backup program [link] is compatible with Pleroma? *If*. I’ll test it soon, probably tomorrow.)

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#The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #The Last Tumblr Apocalypse #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #reply via reblog #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #Fediverse

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moral-autism:

i would ask that people leaving tumblr try to move somewhere with an rss feed so i can in theory find some kind of rss reader and follow everyone that way

also:

  • it seems like this policy shouldn’t actually affect my blogs
    • but i will still do backups anyway
  • most alternate sites, even the distributed ones, seem like they kind of suck compared to tumblr in terms of features. they don’t have stuff like
    • reblog chains
    • easily browsable archives
    • view a user’s tagged posts in [reverse] chrono order
    • fun customizable user pages
      • i can see why this one’s not supported, it’s probably a headache

maybe i should look at dreamwidth? i know it doesn’t make comments first-class the way tumblr does but it seems like a better fit for me than, like, a facebook-clone or a twitter-clone

It looks like you agree with me very well on what the best features of Tumblr are (except I don’t care very much about customizable user pages; I have literally never changed my blog background, this was what they gave me by default back in 2011).

I hope we can find something suitable for us, and I’ll make sure to let you, especially, know if I find it.

When I first started thinking about this after the first signs of a purge a few weeks ago, I wondered if maybe one could do some sort of Mastodon/DW hybrid, similar to the Tumblr/DW proposal [link; hmm, WordPress makes the early parts of long reblog-chains pretty unreadable, I’m going to have to do something about that; for now, here’s a Tumblr-hosted alternative link] a while back. Pleroma [link] might make the need for DW hosting of non-short posts unnecessary, but the idea could still come in handy.

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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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“cryptovexillologist:

By the way: my main social media presence these…”

I think dragon.style has a 5000-character limit

*looks at dragon.style*

7777-character limit, which seems pretty workable even though I don’t really understand why there’s a character limit at all (though I notice a lot of the articles about Mastodon were written by people accustomed to Twitter who think 500 characters is a lot). Downsides: not currently accepting new accounts, some of the admin’s attempts to signal safety are of a kind that–from past experience–I actually parse as hostile instead (in a “will probably turn you in to the Thought Police” kind of way).

Still, proof of concept, and it’s possible Anthracite isn’t actually as scary as the people whose signals she’s using. (She does at least appear to have zero obscenity laws as long as you use content warnings and cuts, which is very important to me in a venue because…well, here is a quote from a PM I sent a while back regarding why I wasn’t going to move to Imzy:

“IME, obscenity laws are enforced more strictly the less sexually mainstream you are, and as someone who is about as non-mainstream as it gets, the strictures on me get very tight very fast once they start existing at all. (Good thing I’m not into bondage, or it’d probably cause a paradox. :P) It tends to work out that if straight people can’t have sex, then gay people can’t kiss and fetishists can’t talk, and dammit I *like* talking.

Basically, I don’t trust any site with any obscenity rules at all to let me post the thing I just posted {{note: the thing in question was this}}. (And woe unto anyone who tries to distribute [things that are in a grey area between porn and sex toys] like half the people in my kinky Tumblr‑sphere do.)”)

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cryptovexillologist:

By the way: my main social media presence these days is at Mastodon.social/@cryptovexillologist

And I just added a new profile, chitter.xyz/@Zipporah_Cryptovex, that’s mostly me rambling about gender introspection

Mastodon is a baller social network, and I hope this sways at least one of you to come join me there

Do they still have that 500-character limit?

I tried looking into Mastodon a while back, saw the 500-character limit, and noped right back out. Recently I *think* I heard something on the Tumblr grapevine about the character limit only applying on some instances, but I’m not sure I heard that right, nor (if true) how to go about finding an instance that isn’t so restrictive.

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