#pillowfort blogging

[spongynova]

From time to time we love a good old meme redraw around here <3

[windslar]

It happened in a dream

[paintpanic]

Hello! Inspired by recent news, I've started a Pillowfort! (I'm @paintpanic on there, also.) Nothing posted on there just yet, but I'll try to get around to it sooner or later. You can expect to see the same stuff you'd see here on there.

Pillowfort is a blogging platform very similar to Tumblr - albeit much smaller and lacking some features. This is because it's entirely user-funded! So no ads or obnoxious monetization schemes.

It has several other features that really appeal to me, like a total AI ban. (Also! NSFW content is allowed. I'm sure that appeals to a lot of people.) The one caveat I should mention is that there's no mobile app right now (it's in the works, though!).

If this site sounds interesting to you, you can go give this introduction post a read! It explains a lot of things way better than I can.

[darkwood-sleddog]

no idea where i'll go if tumblr falls. my dogs whole lives have been documented here. my training successes and failures. my literal everything. this blog has been the only time i've ever felt like i've built a community online. i really hope tumblr sticks around.

[newvegascowboy]

It really sucks because I've run this blog for like eight years and I really love the community here and the culture, but idk how much longer I'm going to be able to put up with tumblr given the series of recent events

[doodlesdreaming]

Info Pin Post

(Updated as of April 11th 2024)

C0mmissi0ns for your artistic needs. More info can be found on my K0F! page.

Any sort of support is appreciated, even if just spreading the word.

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If you’re looking for something with a bit of “spice”…

Head over to my PillowFort for X-tra content.

[eljeebee]

Moving to Pillowfort

For the past few days, I'm thinking about moving to Pillowfort completely. I won't delete this account of course, it will stay up. This will work as the archive for my past stories that you can look back if you need catching up.

I will continue reblogging for CC (perhaps), and continue reading the stories I'm following. The next stories I will upload, it's going to be on Pillowfort. Yes, even the last queued posts in The Life of a Hatcher. Gen 2 of the Davis Legacy Universe will be there instead. As the new segment, Beneath, is still quite new, I will move them there as well.

I don't think opting out of the AI stuff would be enough. I think it's merely a suggestion to the AI companies, and they would ignore it instead of opting the user out of it.

I don't want them scraping my work. I know my work consists of Sims, but Sims helps visualize my story. I'm protective of my stories, because it came from me. I made it, I didn't type down keywords and asked AI to write the rest for me. It is the work of my imagination.

You might think that all the written stuff I've done is not the best for you, but to me, it is. They're the proudest works of mine.

So, if you're also on Pillowfort, feel free to follow me. This is my account.

I will come back completely if and only if Tumblr stops the AI crap and protect its users from it.

[eruscreaminginthedistance]

So after resetting up my old account last night this is the kind of engagement I just woke up to after leaving a few new posts overnight with no established presence

Based website honestly; it's definitely a lot more active than when I poked my head back in a year ago

I'm definitely considering making this my main once the mobile app comes out

[gramophoneturtle]

Blog Update

So for those that don't know, I primarily post my art on Tumblr first. It's been my art archive for so long that it gets priority, and I have a bigger base here, and the archive system is nice. However, it's been brought to my attention that they may start doing AI nonsense so I'm going to focus on making sure I have back up archive on pillowfort account (gramophoneturtle) so if I need to stop posting on Tumblr, I don't have to start from scratch.

When Twitter went downhill with it's AI policies I removed all my art there. However, because of how Tumblr works, I will probably keep my art here. Since once it's reblogged, and maybe once they have the unprotected works in their databases, they already have access to it.

I don't remember if pillowfort still needs registration keys but I have a some I can hand out if people need them.

I picked pillowfort because they only other sites I looked at were mastodon & bluesky (both are not really long blog post sites for comics, for example) and cohost (which...didn't sound reassuring at the time. Never looked into what posting options they had). If there are other alternatives, let me know.

I'm hoping the Tumblr user base can fight back on this idea out but, it might be like Tumblr Live where it gets pushed out and only after a year or an overwhelming amount of backlash and loss do they remove it.

[messyspacespades]

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that Pillowfort is having an end of the year donation drive!

In order to keep the site running, they need to raise 25000 dollars by 12/31/2023! They're currently 58% of the way there!

Pillowfort is one of the last few sites on the internet that allows for nsfw content. It has no ads, no investors, its ENTIRELY RUN by donations from users! In order to join the site, you may pay either $5 to get in, OR you're given a link from someone that already has a pillowfort account that allows u to register!

Please donate to pillowfort! I would hate to see the site 404'd! I myself am already paying for PF premium via donating 10 dollars a month! I'll post the 10 invite links I'm allowed to generate a week in the notes of this post!

Donate here!!!

[pillowfort-social]

Pillowfort might be for you if you're looking for a cozy user-funded platform that doesn't sell user data, is adult creator & SWer friendly, and has extensive privacy controls.

Join for Free Today

[riftclaw]

love that the new interface looking so much like twitter makes me actively want to avoid spending time on the site, like twitter

[pick-a-plush]

[boomstab-papa]

"but i don't know how pillowfort works 🥺"

Well, come over here and learn!

This post has some good tips that even I was wondering about... but I think a lot of these are great features

[calicogoat]

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[dylawas-reblogs]

the fact that antis in that post are like "op I'm so sorry you have to deal with that 🥺" as if we're monsters? Like we're traumatizing?? That's dehumanizimg asf more reason to show how horrible antis are

OP also literally never stated that like... the mutual proshipper ever like force-fed any of their ideals or content. Or that they were even super close. They just happened to be mutuals. And mutuals that may or may not have ever directly interacted. And just happening to find out the mutual was proship was enough for OP to feel like they'd been nefariously misled for malicious purposes. How much you wanna bet the proshipper in question didn't even have that """bad""" of a ship, if a ship was even a part of the equation that lead to the discovery? In my experience, most pro-shippers actually have more tame ships than antis-- but of course, why should that even matter?

I'd expect that kind of reaction from OP from being mutuals with a na/z! or genuine predator-- not because they vaguely "knew" someone who does the fictional equivalent of beheading barbies and blowing up the dolls. Key word dolls.