My thanks to OP. I would like to note that a number of these articles are out of date, and just republished with "2025" in the headline for SEO reasons.
5 Best Tumblr Alternatives in 2025 If you're looking to build your own website from templates and maybe make money off it.
Top 10 Tumblr Alternatives to Publish Blogs In 2025 Repeats all the first article
Pillowfort has a wait list. One of these other suggestion lists says the community feels "dead"; this does not surprise me. I am not confident in them financially going the same way as Cohost. Cohost went belly up at the end of last year and turned off its servers in January 2025.
Reddit, while its reputation precedes it, I would recommend looking into the u/spez scandals; there is a sizable reddit refugee population on tumblr. Tumblr dev invented "Communities" which are functionally very similar to reddit boards, or DW communities here. Of what I remember, the CEO of reddit suddenly affixed an unreasonable sticker price for 3rd party API pullers (which until this point, API pulling was not monetized), making them virtually unusable, so everyone on app was forced to switch to the Reddit official app, which contains more ads than actual content. Later then entire corpus of reddit was sold as training data during the generative AI arms race. I think Google was the one who bought it for Gemini, but will not swear.
Mastodon is one of those federated twitter alternatives. With most people migrating to Bluesky instead, I find the people advocating for Mastodon to be much more technologically niche than the average former twitter user. There is allegedly a way of hooking up mastodon to bluesky. When I asked a friend about it, it's unpopular because it forces bluesky users to follow to the middleman as well. Overall, your mileage will vary based on which server you create your account on, and how much each server's administrative team is able to keep up with the users on that server. The reason I am about to shut mine down is due to its poor search features. Within the local server is alright. It's trying to get outside of that bubble that's difficult if you are searching by tag. Search also doesn't want to pull history further back than maybe 20 posts containing the specified tag. It's a little easier by user, but not enough for me to find what I'm looking for.
15 Best Tumblr Alternatives- 2025: With NSFW Content This article is out of date.
Pixiv is a better website if you are using it in a language other than English. The aggressive machine translation makes searching for things difficult unless you can read an asian language.
Twitter, not "x.com" makes it more apparent this article is not viable. We all know about elongated muskrat's hostile takeover and failed rebranding.
18 Best Blogging Platforms for Free Blogging in 2025 I don't find this list trustworthy either?
Mostly repeats of the above, especially among the blogging to get paid tier stuff.
LinkedIn is NOT a blogging platform. Instagram is also not a blogging platform.
I'm also not entirely sure what's happening between wordpress dot COM and wordpress dot ORG. This involves some drama with Tumblr's current ownership and a former friend. I think one of them is a fork of the other after the two of them had a falling out.
The 20 Best Alternatives for Tumblr in 2025
NewTumbl I have never heard of and not seen promoted as a tumblr clone. I fear this one is in the same tier as Pillowfort or Cohost with a very uncertain financial future.
This article also deadnames Twitter, so I must assume it is out of date.
Soul APP looks like a Facebook/Metaverse failure. Facebook isn't a blogging service in the first place.
Pintrest is where art goes to be stolen. It also doesn't appear to have any sort of social component, but I could be wrong.
List of Best Tumblr Alternatives & Competitors 2025 and TOP 10 Best Blogging Platforms for 2025 are all repeats of the above lists.
diaspora* (sic) is another fediverse alternative to Mastodon or Bluesky.
Flickr is not really a blogging platform any more than Instagram is, and Instagram is trying to turn into a Tiktok clone. The last I have read of it, there's some controversy around it deleting freebie users' archives unless they pony up for a paid account. I do not know if this is still the case. Imgur appears to be safer? More research required.
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5 Best Tumblr Alternatives in 2025
If you're looking to build your own website from templates and maybe make money off it.
Top 10 Tumblr Alternatives to Publish Blogs In 2025
Repeats all the first article
Pillowfort has a wait list. One of these other suggestion lists says the community feels "dead"; this does not surprise me. I am not confident in them financially going the same way as Cohost. Cohost went belly up at the end of last year and turned off its servers in January 2025.
Reddit, while its reputation precedes it, I would recommend looking into the u/spez scandals; there is a sizable reddit refugee population on tumblr. Tumblr dev invented "Communities" which are functionally very similar to reddit boards, or DW communities here.
Of what I remember, the CEO of reddit suddenly affixed an unreasonable sticker price for 3rd party API pullers (which until this point, API pulling was not monetized), making them virtually unusable, so everyone on app was forced to switch to the Reddit official app, which contains more ads than actual content.
Later then entire corpus of reddit was sold as training data during the generative AI arms race. I think Google was the one who bought it for Gemini, but will not swear.
Mastodon is one of those federated twitter alternatives. With most people migrating to Bluesky instead, I find the people advocating for Mastodon to be much more technologically niche than the average former twitter user.
There is allegedly a way of hooking up mastodon to bluesky. When I asked a friend about it, it's unpopular because it forces bluesky users to follow to the middleman as well.
Overall, your mileage will vary based on which server you create your account on, and how much each server's administrative team is able to keep up with the users on that server.
The reason I am about to shut mine down is due to its poor search features. Within the local server is alright. It's trying to get outside of that bubble that's difficult if you are searching by tag.
Search also doesn't want to pull history further back than maybe 20 posts containing the specified tag. It's a little easier by user, but not enough for me to find what I'm looking for.
15 Best Tumblr Alternatives- 2025: With NSFW Content
This article is out of date.
4chan got hacked so badly this past Monday, it's considered all but dead.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/04/internet-cesspit-4chan-apparently-hacked-mostly-unreachable-since-monday-night/
DeviantArt sold out to generative AI as well. https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html
Pixiv is a better website if you are using it in a language other than English. The aggressive machine translation makes searching for things difficult unless you can read an asian language.
Twitter, not "x.com" makes it more apparent this article is not viable. We all know about elongated muskrat's hostile takeover and failed rebranding.
18 Best Blogging Platforms for Free Blogging in 2025
I don't find this list trustworthy either?
Mostly repeats of the above, especially among the blogging to get paid tier stuff.
LinkedIn is NOT a blogging platform. Instagram is also not a blogging platform.
I'm also not entirely sure what's happening between wordpress dot COM and wordpress dot ORG. This involves some drama with Tumblr's current ownership and a former friend. I think one of them is a fork of the other after the two of them had a falling out.
The 20 Best Alternatives for Tumblr in 2025
NewTumbl I have never heard of and not seen promoted as a tumblr clone. I fear this one is in the same tier as Pillowfort or Cohost with a very uncertain financial future.
This article also deadnames Twitter, so I must assume it is out of date.
Soul APP looks like a Facebook/Metaverse failure. Facebook isn't a blogging service in the first place.
Pintrest is where art goes to be stolen. It also doesn't appear to have any sort of social component, but I could be wrong.
List of Best Tumblr Alternatives & Competitors 2025 and TOP 10 Best Blogging Platforms for 2025 are all repeats of the above lists.
diaspora* (sic) is another fediverse alternative to Mastodon or Bluesky.
Flickr is not really a blogging platform any more than Instagram is, and Instagram is trying to turn into a Tiktok clone.
The last I have read of it, there's some controversy around it deleting freebie users' archives unless they pony up for a paid account. I do not know if this is still the case. Imgur appears to be safer? More research required.
I hope this helps.