“Who do we contact?”
unboundbymusic reblogged your post “A History of Fandom Purges”We don’t contact anybody. If there’s one thing that all this fandom history has shown, it’s that these sites don’t listen and the fandom community on them does not recover.
The solution is to find another website to use as your new fandom home. Hopefully, this time, fandom will choose one with a sensible business model, one that is geared towards fandom and protecting its users. Both DW and PF are businesses, but they’re by and for fans and their profit model involves paid accounts covering the free ones (no advertisers to worry about).
Dreamwidth is oldschool but has stood the test of time (and yes, people have attacked them for the content they host, and they’ve stood up for it). If you want somewhere that’s more of a sure thing and/or if you post a lot of text, DW is your best bet.
Pillowfort sounds good but is in its infancy and is semi-down today from the traffic of everyone getting off of tumblr. If it succeeds, it will have some good features that Dreamwidth doesn’t. OTOH, it might not succeed.
If you want to change formats entirely, people are exploring fan art websites, more chat-oriented things like mastodon and discord, and peer-to-peer protocols that would avoid having a mainstream commercial host at all.
What will not work: petitioning tumblr.
Sorry. It has never worked before. These are gigantic corporations we’re talking about. Yahoo killed Delicious and many other fandom homes. They did not care. They’re not going to care. Verizon is even worse. Save your breath.
But hey, if you can spare some outrage, use twitter and tag Tumblr every time you come across a stupid implementation.
Ex: https://meeedeee.tumblr.com/post/180771758256/is-your-stuff-actually-being-marked-as-nsfw
They may not care about us, but PR casting them in the role of incompetent buffoons that devalue stockholder value always hurts the little capitalist brains