I think it's really a wider issue for me. What tumblr is doing is just part of what the wider internet is starting to try and do. They had all the power to dig in and oppose some of the lawmaking that's behind the changes, and FOSTA/SESTA is one of those things, you know? If these kinds of corporate based websites are going to understand that monetizing their content producers means protecting them and continuing to deliver on their promises even when it's not as profitable, then every effort has to be gone to, I think, to make them listen. Facebook is starting to see its market share slip, hopefully so will tumblr.

It's not ideal by any means. It sucks to have a backlog of content and have built up followers and made friends and have to move that, because the effort gets thrown on us. But when it's that or silent acceptance that they can do whatever they like no matter who and what it harms, it doesn't feel like I have a choice.

That's not gonna be a universal feeling though, like I said below. People, especially young folks, are gonna take this as not that bad, or actually think that it's a good thing, and they'll stick to tumblr cause it's easier. Some people seem to expect the site to die in the spring and I don't think it's that simple. It has too much content already built into it to do that, and one of the things that especially bothers me with that is that the content producers can leave but they can't delete their content; they can't rob tumblr of the thing that, once those people are gone, will continue to make tumblr money in clicks. Or: I hate reblogging and it's bad D=