heads up before you spend $$ on pillowfort, especially note the paypal thing. the io domain concern does not seem carefully enforced but is in the TOS so đ¤ˇ
Yes, we have seen the news! We are planning to have the
site back up either tomorrow or Wednesday; we just have a couple last
security measures we want to put in place today, but we will be working on
it as quickly as possible and we will have a clearer ETA by tonight.
We will also try to come up with a way to lower the barrier to entry for new users, though we donât want to drop the entry fee entirely because a) we feel that would be unfair to our users who have paid for their registration keys and b) we donât think our servers could handle a massive influx of new users right now, so weâre going to try to allow as many new users as we can without capsizing the boat. We appreciate your patience and will have more details soon!
Pillowfort.io is a new blogging platform
that aims to improve the current state of social media by providing better privacy and communication tools. We wanted to make a user-friendly space on the web for creativity, communication and content-sharing. Pillowfort aims to be a hybrid of Tumblr, Twitter, and LiveJournalâ keeping the strengths of these sites while giving you more control over how your content is seen an shared, as well as providing better communication tools. Everyone who contributes $5 or more will get a registration key to create an account on the site once the Kickstarter completes, and we also offer a bunch of cool physical rewards pictured above, so click through to the Kickstarter for information about the site, our business plan, and more!
if you can support i highly recommend this platform, its a breath of fresh air after tumblr and all the ways you can customize your experience on pillowfort is A+
Iâve been really loving Pillowfort so far. Itâs a great platform for fandom, giving us a lot of the same functionality as tumblr while also providing the same kinds of privacy / community tools that ye olde LiveJournal used to give us. I really, really recommend supporting the Kickstarter and joining us over there. I want to see this site take off as THE fandom hub.
One thing I feel like I need to talk about, though: right now, people are talking a lot about how friendly Pillowfort is and how much less toxic everyone is over there. This is absolutely true â the place is a total breath of fresh air. But bear in mind that this is just a natural result of it being a much smaller collection of people with more or less similar interests who are all really happy to be somewhere new at the moment. The bigger a social platform gets and the longer itâs around, the more toxicity has the chance to take root. There is ALWAYS a small percentage of toxic people and/or toxic behaviour in ANY group of people, and the number of people who make up that percentage grows in proportion to the size of the overall group. There is no magical social platform that is ever going to be completely immune from toxic elements, and nobody should join Pillowfort expecting sunshine and rainbows forever.
What you should expect is a platform that cares about its users, and offers plenty of tools to help curate your experience and cut down as much toxicity as possible. You can blacklist content you donât want to see. You can set the privacy level of each individual post you make (visible to the public / followers only / only you). You can delete your posts and all reblogs of your posts. You can create your own communities and moderate them based on your and your community membersâ needs. Thereâs no algorithm controlling what shows up in your feed. There are no ads being forced on you and no investors dictating how the site should be run. Also, âNo Nazis allowedâ is basically right there in the TOS, which is really nice.
Thereâs also native image hosting, nested commenting to encourage long discussions, and communities so that everyone who loves a thing can gather and squee about the thing and make friends over the thing. Itâs everything I wish Tumblr could have been and everything LiveJournal and its clones should have evolved into but didnât.
If this is of any interest to you at all, toss âem $5 on the Kickstarter, get your access key, and join us over there. Or if you cannot justify spending $5 right now but are genuinely interested? Get in touch with me. Iâm going to be throwing a little more than $5 their way, so Iâll have a few extra invite codes to spread around. You wonât have to pay anything that way, but what I do ask is that if you want an invite code from me, you have to give me your word that youâll be an active, positive member of the community and wonât waste my invite code by grabbing an account and then never using it, or using it for like a week and then abandoning ship. Be willing to commit. Be willing to help us build the Pillowfort community. If itâs not what you want it to be, help MAKE it what you want it to be.
I didnât realise just how much I had missed nested comments until looking at this⌠Signing up just for the mere concept of coherent conversation threads!
On Pillowfort you do not see any posts from someone youâve blocked, even if it is reblogged by someone you follow/have not blocked.
My workaround is to blacklist the URLs of people whose posts and comments I donât want to see… but that only works on my browser with XKit and does nothing for my phone.
I personally donât have a Pillowfort account yet, but my partner does and she has let me look at her account fully to see what it is like. Iâve also viewed Pillowfortâs demo account which is linked to on their Kickstarter. I am waiting with anticipation when I can make my own account, but right now Pillowfort is in a closed beta which means the only people who have access to the site are ones who have been given special registration links. They were doing waves of free beta accounts a bit ago (which is how my partner got her account), but right now for every $5 you pledge to their Kickstarter you will receive a registration key if the Kickstarter gets fully funded (they are as of today 40% of the way to their $39,900 goal).
Here is why Iâm excited for Pillowfort:
If you delete your original posts, every reblogged version will be deleted too. Edit your original post and the changes will appear on every reblog,
The ability to make posts visible to everyone, just followers, just mutuals, or just yourself.
A functional blacklist where you can blacklist a post body & tags or just tags.
A terms of service that explicitly states you hold all rights to your own intellectual property. It also states clearly that it forbids callout posts, doxxing, degradation, harassing, hate groups, spamming of tags with unrelated or offensive material, and slurs against minorities. If there is a user that is doing anything offensive or hateful, it is encouraged and mandated you donât make posts about it and instead flag it and let the site moderators take care of it. This sort of system cuts down on âdashboard dramaâ and harassment that sites like Tumblr are known for.Â
They have threaded comments which means discussions or praise no longer clog up your posts and your blog, keeping things much more organized and clean. We can also use tags for their ACTUAL purpose, tagging of posts for ease of search and organization instead of talking.
They have communities and a more connected user-based and user-led environment.
Posts in chronological order like they should be!
A staff that actually cares about the input of their members and is driven to listen and collaborate with their members to create a site that the users actually want instead of being led by a corporation that has their own agendas in mind.
A staff that wants to avoid corporate involvement, unwanted ads, and selling of user info to fund Pillowfort.
The future possibilities of what the staff can do with the site that we didnât dream could be possible to have all in one place including accessibility and a functional mobile app.
So far, Iâve seen a lot of good things and Iâve been really impressed with how the staff is handling the site and how they have explained their plans for the future of Pillowfort.
If you say you really want a social media site that actually cares about their users, this is it. This is your chance to have what pretty much all of us want. This new blogging platform is all the best parts of Tumblr (and for those who miss Livejournal this is like a wedding between Tumblr and Livejournal) with all the parts we hate and loathe about the site scraped out of it.
If you canât support Pillowfort monetarily, then please, please reblog, tweet, share, and spread it about everywhere you can.Â
This is our chance to have a social media made with us in mind and itâs already starting out so well with 10,000 users in the closed beta. Letâs bring it to the next stage of its life!
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