As someone not involved in the development of pillowfort but am a web developer, I think you should lower your expectations, but not for the reason you think.
Pillowfort is a baby. A newborn. A smol bab. If you were here during the early days of Tumblr, think of that.
Pillowfort simply cannot be the immediate solution to your woes. It needs to be nurtured and cared for to become a mature and happy adult.
If you want Pillowfort to work, they’ll need feedback, advice, bug reports, etc. This is a chance to make Pillowfort the Ao3 of Fanfiction.net. It’s not gonna happen overnight, you need to give it time and love and it’ll get there.
If you don’t want to pay money to get into the beta, that’s ok. It will be open to the public soon enough and you won’t have to pay a dime. Their financial model moving forward sounds good (a subscription fee for super extra features), but even an Ao3 model would work swell for them probably.
We’re living in an interesting time on the internet. Governments across the world are cracking down on content and yet community run websites are starting to thrive more and more.
Tumblr once upon a time was what Pillowfort is today, but this time, let’s make sure Pillowfort can stay independent from mega corporations.
yes this
most of the criticism i’ve seen of pf so far ultimately come back to this
is it an alright platform with a good community? yes. does it have a lot of potential? yes. does it have a lot of problems still being worked out? yes. are the staff open and responsive? absolutely. do i recommend it? yes, if you’re willing to live in a house while it’s being built.
but it’s not a ready-made replacement for tumblr. set your expectations accordingly.
Also they’ve already announced on twitter that they’re moving away from the .io because of what it means for posting adult content.
I am concerned about NSFW content on pillowfort because of the fact that they work with paypal (which is EXTREMELY anti-porn/sw) but that also seems like the kind of thing they’d correct going forward.
Despite all the law enforcement resources expended, empirical research on the dangers or benefits of erotic services ads has been sparse. But a new study provides strong evidence that when law enforcement closes down sites like Craigslist or Redbook, women die.
The September 2017 study, authored by West Virginia University and Baylor University economics and information systems experts, analyzes rates of female homicides in various cities before and after Craigslist opened an erotic services section on its website. The authors found a shocking 17 percent decrease in homicides with female victims after Craigslist erotic services were introduced.
The data does not provide a single clear explanation as to why female homicide rates drop so steeply, Scott Cunningham, one of the paper’s authors, told ThinkProgress. It’s possible, for example, that when Craigslist opens erotic services ads, some women in abusive domestic situations decide to become sex workers, move out, and so escape violent homicide at the hands of their spouses or boyfriends.
The most likely explanation, though, Cunningham says, is that sex workers simply make up a huge percentage of female homicide victims. When sex workers are safer, female homicide rates drop significantly.
[…]
Once sex workers move indoors, they are much safer for a number of reasons, Cunningham said. When you’re indoors, “you can screen your clients more efficiently. When you’re soliciting a client on the street, there is no real screening opportunity. The sex worker just has to make the split second decision. She relies on very limited and complete information about the client’s identity and purposes. Whereas when a sex worker solicits indoors through digital means, she has Google, she has a lot of correspondence, she can ask a lot of questions. It’s not perfect screening, but it’s better.”
[…]
In theory, closing down advertising is supposed to reduce exploitation of women. In practice, when resources are taken away from people living on the edge of poverty, they have fewer options and are less able to protect themselves.
For all these reasons access to the Internet can transform the experience of sex work. Young women who have been able to screen clients using sites like Craigslist, “almost feel like this is a safe job because they have these tools,” DiAngelo said.
Sex workers report that free online advertising makes them safer. There is now data showing that erotic services ads significantly decrease female homicide rates. So, will law enforcement back down and allow these sites to operate again?
(Click the link for the full article, quotes posted for brevity)
Here’s my info again for anyone who wants to keep in touch in case my blog gets deleted. I have no way of telling if it will be or not, afaik. I intend to stick around here for now, if they let me.
mastodon: @potatoshoe@mastodon.social (how do you link to a mastodon account? I don’t know!)
I don’t use either of these very much but I’m probably going to start using them more, especially if my blog gets deleted or if enough people leave that this place stops being interesting.
If you want to keep in touch otherwise, I’d be willing to give out my email over DM as long as we’ve interacted before.
I’m trying to back up this blog to wordpress but it doesn’t seem to be working.
Since this script will now run every time you open the tumblr dashboard, disable it again after usage: With the dashboard open, click the toolbar button for Tampermonkey. Now click the switch to disable the “tumblr score checker 2.0” again.
As for those wondering about “what am I going to run on my tumblr, is it even save?”, if you would like to feel free to check the code, but what it does is get the so called “form key” from the page (tumblr uses it internally to communicate between pages, e.g. xkit uses it too). Next, this form key is used in combination with the part of the server that loads blogs in the sidebar view. The loading code returned by the server has information about whether or not posts are flagged, and a lot of extra information.
Also feel free to spread this script around 🙂
Some screenshots for additional guidance are placed below
On April 4, 2017, LiveJournal significantly modified its terms of use,
making the service subject to Russian law. The new terms prohibit users
from posting “advertising and/or political solicitation materials” or
performing any actions “contradictory to the laws of the Russian
Federation”. The terms also state that users are subject to Article 10.2
of the Federal Act of the Russian Federation No. 149, which dictates
that blogs with more than 3,000 daily visitors are classified as media
outlets and may not be published anonymously, are responsible for the
dissemination of unverified information, and are restricted from posting
pornography, obscene language, or “extremist materials”.[108][109][110] Western media have described these laws as “draconian” and restricting free expression.[110][108]
Additionally, only the Russian-language version of the terms of
service are considered legally binding. The new terms prompted wide
concern from users who believed that their content would now be targeted
under Russian censorship policies, including the country’s “gay propaganda” law.[111][61]
To: Tumblr Jeff D’Onofrio, Tumblr CEO New York City, New York, United States
Dear Jeff D’Onofrio,
On December 17, Tumblr will be banning porn from its site.
By banning “adult content” from your website in truth you categorically ban sex workers regardless of how they are using your platform. You cut them off from the ability to build an audience for their work, and what’s even worse, you declare their very existence as obscene.
Tumblr allows every content creator, artist, or small entrepreneur to build an audience and communicate with this audience at any moment in time – if you do not work in the adult industry of course.
Many brands use social media to sell products. Social media and eCommerce are interlocked. You take this now away from every adult content creator around the globe. And that is wrong.
You mentioned in a blog post titled “A better, more positive Tumblr”:
“There is no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.”
You are wrong: There is a shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content, in particular when it comes to shadowbanning and the ability to also advertise on these sites.
Look, here is what we do:
Sharesome is a site that welcomes all the people that you just kicked off your platform. You gave them time until December 17th to export a backup of their blog to save their years of work. Meanwhile we will develop an import tool, so they can move to us, and we leave you with all the white supremacist Nazi blogs – because we ban that kind of shit.
I think this is where I’m headed. The format is nice and its easily accessible for adult and NSFW content.
I look forward to seeing our amazing hypno, kink and fetish community moving to a welcoming home. This feels like a good first stop to move.
Never heard of it, but I like the cut of this letter’s jib.
If people are moving there, I’ll definitely give it a shot. A lot of other options that have been popping up aren’t working for me, so I’m just trying to see what sticks.
Gonna be honest…this ain’t bad. It’s definitely still in beta, is missing a lot of key features (no mobile app, for starters), and can definitely stand to add a LOT more “suggested topics” (no mind control, hypnosis, etc; a lot of the topics are your extremely standard/limited PornHub-level stuff), but the interface is great and very user friendly so far. Like Tumblr with a bit of Twitter thrown in.
If we all joined and collectively added more hypno content, I think it could be a phenomenal replacement!
Footwear for Tubers! 