So, along with everyone else, I’ve been looking at a number of (hopefully) viable alternatives now that Tumblr has decided to delete its own account. So, for the very few that expressed an interest, and to add my voice to anything approaching a consensus….
The first site I’m looking at is Bdsmlr. It’s a straight up clone. In theory. Right now it seems pretty buggy, but the impression that I’ve received is that they’re kind of scrambling trying to figure out how to deal with a sudden and substantial influx of traffic. I have very high hopes for this one once things stabilize. I went ahead and snagged my name on there, at any rate.
I’m also looking at sharesome.com. This site looks really nice, actually. It says it’s still in beta and it’s already better than bdsmlr is right now (though again, I’m hopeful for improvement there). But this has a bright clean intuitive interface. You can follow individual blogs and also topics, which seems great. They seem to have sliced out a sort of special place in their hearts for kinky content creators, also. According to their news updates, they’re also looking to create a tool for people to import their blogs, so this might be a great, easy 1-to-1 if they get it done before Tumblr shuts down. So for now, this is where I intend to start. Same name as here. Feel free to look me up and we can get back to being kinky.
Feel free to reblog and/or comment so we can see where everyone is thinking about. These are obviously not the only alternatives, and if someone has something better, I want to know about it, too!