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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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So, uh, the webpage view [link] is showing me scrambled posts now. The post at the top of page 1 is 4 hours old (I’ve made several posts since then), and at the beginning of page *3* it starts showing posts in what looks like it might be the order of last *edit*: those few posts I’ve made since the page-1 posts, followed by some posts whose tags I updated [link].

Incognito mode does not seem to help.

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Remember, there’s more to backing up a Tumblr than the posts! Make sure to grab copies of your: 

  • Drafts (WordPress will include these in their Tumblr export, or you can post them and then use any method that backs up posts, or copy them manually into some notepad program)
  • Queue (I don’t *think* WordPress includes these, but there’s still posting them or manual copying; I pretty much never use my queue, so I don’t have any experienced techniques for archiving it)
  • Inbox (I paste mine into a Word document: the formatting is a bit off, but it’s still fairly readable, and you can always clean it up)
  • Outbox (same method as inbox)
  • PM logs (I separate these into one Word document per person)
  • List of followed blogs, to help you consider which other blogs to archive† or to find elsewhere (there might be a cleverer way to do this, but I simply went through my list and wrote everything down in another Word document; I also included a note of how many there were in total, so I can tell at a glance if any vanish from Tumblr)

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†You don’t need to own a blog to use the tumblr-utils backup method [link] on it.

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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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