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.
YES THIS
One of the great things about PF is that the staff is listening to the userbase. They want to know what we want and need. We got features like mutuals-only post locking and readmores months before they were originally slated to roll out, just because so many people not only wanted them but said that those were at the top of their wish lists. Yes, that’s right, they actually listened to user feedback – solicited it, even, with surveys! – and then changed their plans based on that feedback. More than once.
There are a lot of cool features that are planned but not yet implemented. There are a lot of bugs. But one of the things that’s been most fun about watching this site grow (I’ve been on there since February) is the moment every few weeks when BAM! we get a major feature we’ve been waiting for, or a major bug magically disappears.
If you don’t want to deal with bugs and lack of features, that’s fine, totally understandable, but don’t shit on the site just yet. None of us knows for sure what it’s going to look like a year from now. Once it’s out of beta and had a chance to work through the inevitable growing pains that will come after that, if you still think it’s going about things all wrong, by all means, warn people away from it.
But right now, if you’re not sure about some of it but are at all curious to see how it turns out, come join us and let Staff know about your concerns. Strike up conversations about the features you think are most important. You have the chance to influence the shape of this site in a way that is rare, and that Tumblr has never given a shit about.
Just don’t go into this kitchen expecting a cake. Because what you’re going to get is a bunch of ingredients and a lady working on mixing them while the oven’s not even done preheating yet. You can either get mad that there’s no cake yet, and go around telling everyone what a shitty baker she is, or you can let her know what flavor frosting you want.
⚡️ If you want to manifest something quick don’t ask for something specific, ask for something general like “a great opportunity/experience” this way you don’t have to face limiting beliefs.
⚡️ Say “wouldn’t it be nice if…” when you are in a good/happy state of mind (and then move on with your day)
⚡️ Write your abundance log! It will make you feel better (and will help you with your vibrations/manifestation abilities)
⚡️ Be grateful for something!! (As many things as you can but one thing is completely fine)
⚡️ Are you running late? Stop for a sec, breathe in and say “I’ll be there in time”, keep doing whatever you need to do (it works for me every single time)
⚡️Do you feel lost? Ask for a sign! Don’t be afraid of saying “universe (god/spirits…) give me a VERY clear sign!” (Or ask yourself for the sign you want to see)
⚡️ Be careful of how you speak. Say “I don’t master my drawing skills yet” instead of “I can’t draw fml”
⚡️ Don’t bottle up your emotions. Are you angry/sad/whatever??? Accept it, experience it and go and do something you like. (If you deny emotions you’ll keep attracting situations where you’ll have to feel that emotion over and over again because you’ll be operating from that low vibration)
⚡️ Think about the time you manifested something and feel that excitement again!
⚡️ Ask how you can improve your relationship with yourself. Are you denying anything to yourself?? Do you really want to do something?? Act accordingly (if you feel good about yourself you won’t have thoughts like “ohh but I don’t deserve this!!”)
⚡️ Do/go through your manifestation board on Pinterest and keep pinning stuff (it has to feel fun and easy)
⚡️ Having trouble letting go? Try to physically do something else. If you’re expecting a phone call put your phone down and go out/read a book/do your laundry…
⚡️ Having more trouble letting go?? Repeat to yourself “I need to let go, I need to let go, I let go” and do a little shake with your body (I usually shake my shoulders, arms or hands depending on where I am)
Note: this is all from personal experience, doesn’t mean it’s the ultimate truth. Just some tricks that work for me and hope they can help you manifesting things in your life.
don’t join mastodon. the lax nature of regulations makes it an extremely popular platform for maps and pedophiles.
there are always alternatives to tumblr but mastodon is Not a trustworthy or good one
This is based on a drastic misunderstanding of what Mastodon is. It’s not a social media site like tumblr – it’s open-source code that allows anyone to create a social media site, which can then interact with other sites using that code. To say Mastodon has “lax regulations” is really misleading, because Mastodon itself has no regulations, it only has tools for moderators to regulate their own instances
Mastodon “allows” pedophiles in the same way that email “allows” identity theft scams. No, “email” doesn’t put a stop to identity theft, but “email” is just a set of protocols for sending messages – it’d be absurd to expect it to
Most Mastodon instances (including mastodon.social, the largest and oldest) do more to keep pedophiles off their platform than tumblr ever has, by having strict rules against it, banning any instances that don’t have strict rules against it, and actively moderating to enforce those rules. At that point it’s as if the pedophiles are on a different website entirely – because they literally are on a different domain
As someone who actually uses it, I can confirm that I’ve never had or even heard of a run-in with pedophiles. Admins know the instances that allow it and quickly block and spread the word about any new ones that pop up. Again, it’s been more of an issue for me on tumblr than it’s ever been on masto
Please reblog this. People love spreading this rumor without knowing what they’re talking about, and it’s driving people away from non-corporate, community-controlled, secure open-source social media. And that’s a real big shame
Second, this means any poor person with a phone and the new Burger King app can literally get food for a penny just by going to McDonalds, which is probably a goddamn lifesaver if you’re regularly worried about where your next meal is coming from
no other website has the same ambiance of gothic confusion and unrelatable obtuse content
they are a hapless pornbot who knows not of the end coming for their quivering female presenting nipples
mega spite
like normal spite but you’re posting dick pics before The End
Direct Contact with the Memes
god, wht the fuk even is twitter
they tried to leave but woke up again on tumblr like it’s the Groundhog’s Day movie
More reasons:
tumblr allows us to post in any format medium we choose (image, long text post, sound, or video)
shitposting just isn’t the fking same anywhere else
like some sort of ancient slumbering giant this is where we have laid for many a century and Will Not Get Up Again (aka can’t be bothered)
This is the only godforsaken place I can have an open online presence where my fucking family haven’t managed to find me so you can pry it from my cold, dead, nippleless hands
I love how the 5e corebook is very clear about how dragonborn do not have tails and literally every player and DM since has unilaterally said “That’s fucking dumb give them a tail :/”
if you give them a big stupid dragon head but no tail theyll be top heavy and fall over. this is so sad 1000 like
Tails are literally the most important part of ANYTHING. How dare they imply otherwise
I remember back in 3e and 3.5 when the descriptions of Tieflings emphasized how subtle their demonic features were supposed to be and all of my friends and I made Tieflings who were like “yeah I’ve got giant black horns and red claws and a barbed tail, what’s your fuckin’ problem?”
fun fact nonbinary ppl with boobs, nonbinary ppl who like their boobs, and nonbinary ppl who want boobs are cool and valid and just as nonbinary as ppl w flat chests and deserve to have a good time all the time
SlythKris (tumblr backup babey) 