I can respect that.
Back from the log-out started late the 16th, numbers reduced I see (around 50 followers gone) but not like Metropolis up there.
tumblr sucked yet its the only thing people like us could ever have posted on. tumblr was a deep sea geothermal vent and we are all pallid, desperate crabs snapping at the dark toxcic nutrients spweing from its hole, and bringing us into the harsh light of the instagram influencersphere would kill us instantly.
I study hydrothermal vents and I endorse this metaphor, especially the way it implicitly makes Yahoo a deep-sea mining company that doesn’t understand the role of vent fauna in the ocean ecosystem
Reblog for marine biologist input.
PSA:
Go see Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse ASAP! Take your whole family! It’s amazing!
Even after you turn off Facebook location tracking, Facebook tracks your location
Facebook is a model of offering incredible, nuanced privacy protections to its users, allowing them to configure exactly how much of their data they want to share and how they want it to be used – Facebook offers these protections, it just doesn’t deliver them. Every Facebook privacy setting seems to be an empty checkbox, not hooked up to anything that alters its data-collection.
Aleksandra Korolova took several steps to tell Facebook not to track her location: she turned off Facebook’s access to her Iphone’s location data in the relevant Ios control panel, and cleared and switched off “Location History.” She does not list her city in her Facebook profile and does not post photos. She turned off location access and declined to state a location for Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram. She doesn’t tag her location in Facebook posts and doesn’t check in to locations when she gets there.
But Korolova still sees ads for businesses near her home and work, and the places she travels to, which are labeled as being shown to her because she was “recently near their business.”
Korolova cares about this stuff in part because she’s a researcher who published a paper that showed that stalkers can use Facebook’s ad-location services to track people to areas as specific as a single house.
Based on Facebook’s marketing materials for advertisers, Korolova thinks they’re deriving her location from her IP address, cell-site data, nearby wifi networks and Bluetooth spotting.
deviantART, Google, etc’s TOS
Everyone is panicking over TOS-es right now as they find a new home as Tumblr gets flushed down the toilet. I don’t like those random TOS breakdowns because the analysis is always wrong.
Anyway this is what people pay me to do and I will now do it for $0 because I’m tired of everyone spreading misinformation. This post is not a substitute for legal advice etc. Reblogs are appreciated because I literally see TOS nonsense on my dash every day.
Any more experienced copyright lawyers please feel free to weigh in - it’s part of my field yes, but my wheelhouse is more film production COT rather than derivative works.
Google Drive (TOS)
- Google doesn’t have rights to do whatever they want to files you upload to Google Drive
- Their TOSes are annoyingly broad in drafting but essentially boilerplate clauses that they need to host your work, use google translate on it, make it searchable etc. They cannot steal your fanfic. They cannot modify your art and use it for whatever.
- Your work MAY be threatened (that is, deleted) thanks to FOSTA/SESTA, which imo is a clown provision signed by a clown that sent safe harbour down the toilet. This and this has more information (I’ve skimmed but not perused both), but the tl;dr is: similar to Tumblr, there was a ham-fisted attempt to protect victims of sex trafficking and all it really did was make cloud based services start deleting user files whether relevant or not.
deviantART (Submission Policy) (TOS)
- Uploading work to dA doesn’t give them a license to sell it to Hot Topic. This post is incorrect. Debunked here and corrected by the artist himself here. Your art is safe.
- There’s a breakdown of the TOS in there that’s pretty much wrong on most points, if someone wants me to do a not-wrong version, ask. This may help.
- All you really need to know is that like Google, I checked it over and nothing in there puts you at risk for dA asserting ownership over your work or selling it - they need those rights for thumbnails, search functions, resizing etc.
- Sexually explicit fanart is not allowed, as well as “obscenity”, which is an oddly broad term covering things like “sexually orientated commercial telephone messages”.
- I’m not aware of any content purges.
AO3 (TOS)
- Yum. I like this one. Easy to read and clearly explained for most people with basic reading comprehension. Section G - What We Do With Content will tell you everything you need to know.
- Basically, they have the same clauses about you granting AO3 a license to modify/apart/etc you work, but they take the trouble to explain to you exactly what that means, and how they use it to improve accessibility etc.
- No history of content purges as far as I know. Explicit content is allowed with limits eg. no child porn.
Wordpress (TOS)
- Same deal - you’re looking for 1. Wordpress - Responsibility of Contributors, with the exact same thing as everybody else. They also do a decent job of explaining what they use the license for (though once again, it’s standard), albeit not as beautifully as AO3.
- However, images of sexual acts (including fanart) are against TOS.
- I found no history of content purges.
Dreamwidth (TOS)
- Same old standard licensing clause, again doesn’t let them steal your stuff.
- Incredibly…open content policies…you can basically do whatever you want so long as you don’t break laws or commit fraud it seems? If I’m wrong, feel free to correct.
Hope this helps. Feel free to force me to read and explain any other site TOS documents. Again, more experienced copyright lawyers, feel free to correct me if I clowned up somewhere.
reblogging as a correction to my last post re DevArt, although since
DevArt
still doesn’t allow adult art, still not a great alternative to tumblr
