I personally don’t 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. I’ve also viewed Pillowfort’s 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 I’m 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 don’t make posts about it and instead flag it and let the site moderators take care of it. This sort of system cuts down on “dashboard drama” and harassment that sites like Tumblr are known for.
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 didn’t dream could be possible to have all in one place including accessibility and a functional mobile app.
So far, I’ve seen a lot of good things and I’ve 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 can’t support Pillowfort monetarily, then please, please reblog, tweet, share, and spread it about everywhere you can.
This is our chance to have a social media made with us in mind and it’s already starting out so well with 10,000 users in the closed beta. Let’s bring it to the next stage of its life!
It has been drilled into me that asking personal questions about potentially sensitive topics is rude, so I almost never inquire about them unless they are explicitly volunteered and just live in suppressed curiosity until someone opens up to me or I piece it together from clues. Or I die, I guess.
Which means I have… a lot of friends whose important details I just don’t fucking know. You could show up at my house one day with an alligator head and I just wouldn’t bring it up in case you were uncomfortable talking about it.
A lot of the time people will be like, “Oh, why does your friend need x accommodation?”
Fuck, I don’t know. They just do. Maybe a witch cursed them, maybe they’re half Vulcan and it reacts badly with their copper-based blood, maybe their parents were eaten by the M&M mascot… all I know is they can’t have blue candy. I have theories as to why, but unless they tell me directly or invite me to ask, I’m not going to pry. If they feel it is necessary for me to know, they will tell me.
That said, I’m pretty good at putting two and two together, so there have been many occasions where a friend will make a big confession to me and I… I definitely figured that out already but didn’t want to bring it up.
Ship is the kind of Fae who doesn’t learn things about you specifically so if they are asked directly they can say they don’t know without lying.
#the type of fae who respects your privacy
Oh I very much will snoop at all openly displayed information you have about yourself. Framed photos, books and trinkets on your shelves, atypical grocery choices, the stuff you have taped to your fridge… if you invite me into your home and don’t specifically ask me not to look too closely, I will gaze and learn about you silently. I won’t open cabinets or doors or books or anything, but if you’ve got books on talking to your kids about stillbirth coping with the loss of a child, well… I’m not going to bring it up, but I think I can guess why those blocks on the shelf next to a pair of baby shoes spell out ‘Jonathan’.
Does it count as snooping if I’m only looking at things openly on display, but observing them with the intent to learn things?
Also when I DO want to ask questions to clarify potentially important things, I worry that I’ll just come off like this:
When pet owners talk about their pets it’s guaranteed to fall under one of two categories:
Rover is the sweetest kindest force in my life, my closest ally, my best friend, the family member who molded me as a person who I would absolutely lay down my life for. Please let me show you photos of this perfection incarnate.
Socks is on double secret baby probation now and she’s gated in the living room because she wont stop sneaking out and trying to eat all the towels in the house, like the bastard idiot child she is.
This is hideously correct
@asilverthorne me @ my hamster who only escapes his box when I’m drunk
dude seeing these Mega high quality images of the surface of mars that we now have has me fucked up. Like. Mars is a place. mars is a real actual place where one could hypothetically stand. It is a physical place in the universe. ITS JUST OUT THERE LOOKING LIKE UH IDK A REGULAR OLD DESERT WITH LOTS OF ROCKS BUT ITS A WHOLE OTHER PLANET?
LIKE THIS JUST LOOKS LIKE IT COULD BE A PERSON’S BACKYARD. LIKE YEA A LITTLE DUSTY MAYBE THERE WAS A SANDSTORM BUT THAT’S COOL I’M JUST GONNA WALK DOWN TO THE STORE P S Y C H YOU’RE ON MARS BICH!
i hate to be rude and intrude on this post but we have decent pictures of the surface Venus too!
Yeah but Venus looks like a ridiculous hellscape just like I pictured. Mars is like. Arizona.
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I will never understand movies where Santa Claus is real that universe.
And its always the kids that believe in him, obviously, and the parents don’t but like…. who do they they think is leaving all the presents/????????? A friendly neighbor buys your kids all the things on the list and leaves it in your house????? Or did Santa not previously leave presents from years before and now that a random kid is saying he’s real bc he saw him that he decides to leave presents???
And hes always proven real when the Santa is able to tell the stubborn person who doesnt believe in Santa about their most secret Christmas present wish.. BUT WHY DID HE NOT EVER GIVE THEM THE GIFT THEYVE LITERALLY ALWAYS WANTED BEFORE?? Does he just WAIT until this person grows up into a Boring adult to present them with a doll from the 80s but never gave them their doll until they’ve become a fully grown adult????? Why didnt, when little Linda was 8, he give her the precious Susie Talks a Lot Doll she ALWAYS WANTED??? WHY DID HE WAIT UNTIL SHE’S 34 AND STILL NOT MARRIED AND HAS A DULL JOB TO GIVE HER A USELESS TOY THAT SHE’LL JUST PLACE ON A MANTEL SOMEWHERE TO COLLECT DUST.
SANTA IS A DICK.
Kasey, it’s only October 3rd……….
ITS NEVER TOO EARLY TO EXPOSE SANTA
HO HO HO MOTHERFUCKER
I think this is where Nightmare Before Christmas got it right. People readily acknowledged Santa’s existence, and then when the impostor shows up, it’s like “That’s not Santa. I know Santa. This is not that guy. Call the fucking cops.”
I mean, it’s magic, right? It seems fair to me that there’s some sort of Notice Me Not spell for non believers where they always think that the randomly appearing presents were bought by Some Other Adult (the other parent, an aunt/uncle, etc) or even that they must have bought the present themselves and forgotten about them (there are, after all, people out there who do their Christmas shopping in like July).
missionlameturtle 