Thought about a long post explaining my reasoning for leaving Tumblr, but it really comes down to two major things:

1. Tumblr has been slowly (and now, all at once) alienating the users that it built its platform on. This adult content decision makes it clear they’re not interested in providing features for current or longtime users. They’re attempting growth at the expense of their current userbase.

2. Tumblr’s method of determining “adult content” is sloppy, haphazard, and extremely anti-LGBT+. It has been for a long time, but there were ways to get around this. Banning “adult content” by their algorithm’s definition is destroying anything in the vicinity of sex, including marginalized voices.

It’s clear I’m not welcome, and I have no interest in being here if I have to follow some shitty code’s interpretation of Disney-esque censorship.

I’ve been here since at least 2010 when I was a different, barely-out-of-the-closet person. It’s been fun, usually, and I appreciate the people I found here. If any of you want to follow me, I’m definitely the most active on twitter and I’m hoping to make something out of my pillowfort account once things are a bit more stable there. I even made a new twitter account that will last until twitter decides that sex is bad.

• Twitter SFW: @orcanist

• Twitter NSFW: @NSFWorcanist

• Pillowfort: orcanist

• Mastodon: Aros@monsterpit.net