olderglow:

this post will be updated as I find more websites to add! please check with the original before reblogging to see if there’s an updated version, and message me with corrections or more suggestions if you have them!!

websites in red have explicitly forbidden the posting of NSFW content. websites in orange allow certain types of NSFW content or have questionable / unclear guidelines.

for general use

friendproject.net – built on myspace, great blog customization

gab.ai – added for completeness, but has a huge alt-right + racism issue

joinmastodon.org – basically like if twitter and discord had a child??
mewe.com – privacy-focused, has groups and private messages

minds.com – allows you to exchange traffic for being promoted (??)
myspace.com – yes, it still exists, i’m just as surprised as you

nibblebit.com – similar to tumblr with reblogs / likes / customizing of blogs
pinterest.ca – easy sharing and collecting, but has many issues with theft

swarmr.com – looks like a clone of tumblr, though i haven’t tested

twitter.com – allows posting both text and photos in sets, allows retweets

geared towards writers and bloggers


archiveofourown.org – specializes in hosting fic, excellent tagging system

dreamwidth.org – a blogging site similar to livejournal or wordpress
fanfiction.net – another big name in fanfic posting
livejournal.com – still an option, but questionably safe for fandom
mibba.com – for creative writers, centered around community feedback
quotev.com – decent website for original / fan fic and fandom quizzes
royalroad.com – hosts webnovels and other fanfic, nice dark theme

wattpad.com – modern pretty fic site with direct links to irl publishers

wordpress.com – old and well-established, often considered the default

geared towards artists and photographers


artstation.com – excellent website for posting professional art portfolios

behance.net – meant for professionals posting various visual media types
deviantart.com – huge community, allows posting art + sorting into folders

flickr.com – great community for photographers, can join groups

furaffinity.net – similar to DA but for furries, easy to display commish info

galleria.emotionflow.com – very similar to pixiv, with imo better tagging
instagram.com – photo and video posts, excellent tag search
newgrounds.com – an oldie but a goodie, allows a ton of media types

piczel.tv – allows both streaming and posting art / photosets to a gallery

pixiv.net – huge anime art community, allows livestreaming

poizen.me – gorgeous website designed for artists to post art AND track comms

this one’s still in alpha but looks incredibly promising as a platform and super pretty to look at!! go snap up a username before all the good ones are taken! favouritism what’s that



vero.co – app only, similar to insta but with MUCH more privacy control

chat or forum based

aminoapps.com – community-based, has blogs + chat, custom themes

discordapp.com – great chat app, text + voice, can join infinite servers

reddit.com – literally a community for everything, SO MANY CAT PHOTOS

18+ only


bdsmlr.com – microblogging + social media for people into kink

blogr.xxx – a tumblr clone created specifically for sharing porn

fetlife.com – considered one of the biggest kink communities online

libertine.center – beautiful + modern site for posting irl nsfw and kink stuff

thefetlibrary.com – for posting of erotic stories, replaces bdsmlibrary

paid platforms

patreon.com – subscription-based access to many diff types of content

pillowfort.io – still in beta, but should function almost identically to tumblr

typepad.com – similar to wordpress but with reblogging and a dash

defunct platforms

(so people will stop telling me i forgot them)

jux.com – shut down in 2014 due to lack of funds
shoandtell.me – now redirects to someone’s personal blog
soup.io – more or less closed down this year due to GDPR issues

ways to save your current tumblr posts

use the wayback machine! you do have to archive each page of your blog individually but once you do all the content, including media, will be saved exactly as it was at the moment you archived it.
wordpress allows you to directly import whole tumblr blogs, and if i recall correctly it’s something both dreamwidth and pillowfort have said they are working on.
if you have some knowledge of computers you can try this github solution which uses a python script to download your whole blog to your computer. even if you don’t know anything about programming or the command line they give a very good beginners tutorial on how to use it so you should still give it a shot!

if that’s still a little daunting you can try soarcodes’ tumblr post that also has a decent tutorial!


some notes

please note that every site on this list will have pros and cons, and i haven’t listed them here since this post would be a mile long otherwise. please do your research before moving completely over to another site in case they have policies you disagree with.

also, because I see a lot of misinformed people ranting about this: deviantart does not own the art you post. some years ago hot topic stole a ton of art from DA and sold it on merchandise and people assumed that DA gave them permission to do it despite there being literally zero evidence for that claim. DA explictly states in their TOS that you retain copyright and sole license of the art you post.

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No clue where I am going, but somewhere where LGBT and sex-positivity content won’t be constantly flagged. And where shipping will still exist.