Dec. 16th, 2018 03:23 pm
Dawn of the Final Day
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beast_below Well, the Tumblr Purge is officially tomorrow.
I just finished saving a handful of text posts from one of my personal sideblogs and archived them here. Also tried to snag some of my favorite pieces of art from my small fan sideblog. But honestly, I haven't done as much as I could. It's finals during my most hellish semester so far and my puppy comes home in just four days, so I've just been... overwhelmed
And now, Tumblr has blocked the Wayback Machine. For reasons I cannot even begin to fathom, they've actively blocked archival attempts.
Although I don't know how it's going to turn out, how much the internet may or may not change in the coming months and years... I can't help but mourn. I can't imagine things aren't going to change, and significantly. Maybe not overnight. Maybe even for the better. But so much is going to shift, so much is going to be lost.
It's hard to wrap my head around, really.
Just. Shit.
I just finished saving a handful of text posts from one of my personal sideblogs and archived them here. Also tried to snag some of my favorite pieces of art from my small fan sideblog. But honestly, I haven't done as much as I could. It's finals during my most hellish semester so far and my puppy comes home in just four days, so I've just been... overwhelmed
And now, Tumblr has blocked the Wayback Machine. For reasons I cannot even begin to fathom, they've actively blocked archival attempts.
Although I don't know how it's going to turn out, how much the internet may or may not change in the coming months and years... I can't help but mourn. I can't imagine things aren't going to change, and significantly. Maybe not overnight. Maybe even for the better. But so much is going to shift, so much is going to be lost.
It's hard to wrap my head around, really.
Just. Shit.
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"GOOD MORNING INTERNET
This morning, Tumblr mass IP-banned entire swaths of @archiveteam volunteers and warrior instances. Some of our folks will do some work to see if they can get a little more out, but Tumblr has spoken: Get the hell off our lawn, we got some deletin' to do."
Original tweet and comments here: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1073951013634113538
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I'm glad I've been copying over things locally as well, but like... on an individual level, it was an easy, low-tech way to archive a lot at once, and on a group level, the fact that they were running a mass archival project was great for anyone who just Can't or for functionally abandoned blogs. w h y
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