#and there is still pillowfort

[onewomancitadel]

And I have said it before and I'll say it again, Tumblr has to turn to algorithmically driven content for new users joining the website because these new users don't know how to find stuff (go through a blog and find another blog, go to a public tag and find things there, find recommended blogs through them, and so on) and because Tumblr's original algorithm - the reblog - doesn't work with passive consumption styles, so they need to supplement that with a different algorithm instead.

Like on Twitter, quote retweets take away engagement from the original post, so especially for art or commentary media, people will avoid engagement. On Tumblr, this doesn't happen. You can add comments and tags and it won't detract from the original person's post. Most other websites have moved toward Likes, which yes, is why they're making Likes public now.

Likes are great and I really like them (lol), but I am just talking mechanically here: reblogs move posts around, likes previously did not. For someone with a sideblog like this, there's not necessarily impetus to reblog because this is where you come if you want enthusiastic posts about Knightfall and it's not the sort of thing you might be interested in sharing around. But for artists or general bloggers or people who write joke posts or anything else, a dearth of reblogs do create problems.

It's not a nice feeling for the threat of Tumblr going the way of most barren social media, not least when Tumblr itself is a microblogging website before it is social media, but I would suggest not to be alarmist and yes, you should totally send (polite! and kind!) messages to Tumblr Support with feedback about what you like and dislike.

I suggested gifting ad-free subscriptions to Tumblr in addition to badges, and badges of achievement-type varieties, and maybe a year later this was actually implemented. I don't even know if that influenced their decision, but it seems like a somewhat unusual step for a microblogging website to implement that type of thing (compared to something like Twitter). But the Support staff are generally very helpful.

I have done this type of thing before IRL and you would be surprised how often it can make a difference.

Anyway, like, it's probably good to keep in mind that a self-aggrandising billionaire buying out a mainstream social media website moonlighting as the social news hub of the world is a pretty extreme scenario, and certainly not a positive one (I don't enjoy the idea of social media/hubs in general being just randomly bought out, I don't enjoy the monopoly of social media, I don't enjoy the dickmeasuring of Z/uckerberg and his Twitter counterpart, it's all a circus). And Tumblr has seen worse before. And it might get worse. But you're also still here.

#and there is still pillowfort #needless posts about the health of Tumblr no one cares about but I find it interesting

[mattodore]

he's waiting on a call he's planning to send straight to voicemail

#sorry matthias </3 maybe he'll pick up the next time you try calling............ <- me when i lie #river dipping #ts4 #ts4 edit #gifs #theodore doe #echthroi #hi friends and lovers hope everyone's doing well <3 #i got my old laptop to work so i have a laptop again even if the battery on it is messed up #but still #i haven't been online much bc i've started getting dizzy from staring at computer/phone screens for too long #and in particular the act of scrolling either on mobile or desktop makes my head spin and my eyes hurt :/ #but i powered through it yesterday so i could get in game with theo (and matthias) since i missed him really bad... oc plague be upon ye #i took... well. like five hundred screenshots and forty videos... i was in the soup. the mattodore soup. what can i say? #i don't like posting too much on here bc. i'm crazy (<- has avpd) so i probably won't post much from yesterday's fun here #but i'll post whatever i want on pillowfort <3 pic of jerma holding out his hand captioned let's take mattodore together #what else should i say before leaving... right my inbox... well i'll get to it eventually <- have been saying this since october sorry #but okay i've been staring at my screen too long so i need to go lay down for a bit #enjoy theo in motion!! if you’re a theo-head like myself #theodite à la jermamite? hm. its in the works. i’m workshopping. #mentioning jerma twice in these tags… busting a cyanide pill onto my tongue i’ve said too much #i have to go now mwah mwah mwah bye warmth and love to you mwah

[momentarysilence]

some reasons why you should consider checking out Pillowfort! I've personally been using the site for several years now, and I love it! I just wish more people knew about it and gave it a chance.

reblogs are appreciated! I also encourage you to download this image and send it to your friends / post it yourself!

#pillowfort #sometimes I see ppl say stuff like 'I miss when social media was like this' or 'if only there was a social media site like that' #and they're basically describing pillowfort #it's such a great site fr #it's still a baby website compared to the competitors we all know but it has grown so much and I know there's so much more it can become! #if pillowfort sounds like something you might like please consider making an account! #also yes this is of course a very small simplified list #I wanted it to be quick and simple so that it's easily digestible

[t4tails]

what if we all move back to reddit

#og post #WHAT IF WE ALL JOINED ONE BIG DISCORD SERVER 😭😭😭 #oh god is pillowfort still a thing???

[sinfulsunni]

OK TRYING THIS AGAIN. izzy [REDACTED] posting attempt part two electric boogaloo

view full image + two more nasty sketches on pillowfort!! (you don’t need an account)

tumblr pls don’t nerf me he’s just tired from some exercise I swear

#I still don’t know how I wanna format these things so pls bear with me 🙏🙏 #also pls let me know if the link doesn’t work or if anything looks weird!!! I literally just got started in pillowfort today #absolutely hate the format so far but I’m only using it for art so whatever #and HYPOTHETICALLY you should be able to view it without an account #tbh this is more a test run post than anything #sunnyposting #izzy hands #ofmd #art #my art

[boomstab-papa]

Tae's guide to Pillowfort

So you fucking hate what tumblr is doing, you're fed up, but you don't know where else to go / what to do when you get there

Here's a guide what I've been up to over on Pillowfort:

For starters, new users need to either get an invite code (message me if you want one, because I literally always have some!) or donate to Pillowfort's operating costs to get started. I recommend getting a code first, and then donating later if you decide you like Pillowfort.

Recognize that Pillowfort has no ads and does not sell user data, so you are not the product. You are the customer. Pillowfort lives because users give their money to the webisite directly, just like how ArchiveOfOurOwn.org operates. If you give Pillowfort a try... and you want to see it keep growing... and you have a couple bucks to throw their way... please consider donating!

On your new account, you'll set up your blog. User icon, description, settings, etc. You get one blog per account. Consider making this your "everything" blog, where you make your original posts AND reblog things.

Consider making a Community that will serve the same purpose as a tumblr sideblog. For example, I made my main blog ceylon-tae and then made the Community "ceylon-tae-art". Just make the Community for now.

Did you set your NSFW and blacklist preferences? You should. Filters & Blacklist have their own link in the sidebar, so you don't have to go into your Settings every time you want to blacklist something. Easy!

Join some more Communities! Think of joining a [Fandom] Community like following the [Fandom] tag on tumblr. Posts from that Community will show up on your feed now! Here is a list of the currently-most-active communities.

Follow some people! You might have seen some of your comrades on tumblr posting their Pillowfort accounts, or maybe you really liked someone's post in a Community and you decide you'd like to follow them! Go follow them! Their posts will show up on your feed now!

Make a post! Remember to add any relevant tags to the post, especially if your post is NSFW, and don't cen/s0r your tags. Your post will now show up on your blog, and you can control who can see it, reblog it, or comment to it. You can make text, image, video, or link posts.

Now you can reblog that post you made to your Community that you made! Or to another Community someone else made! Some Communities review submitted reblogs before posting them, others do not. Remember to add the relevant tags to your reblog here as well.

Reblog posts you enjoyed, so you can show it to your followers!

If you have something to say about the post, Pillowfort has a nested comments section! Livejournal / Dreamwidth / Reddit users will find this familiar. Newbies will hopefully find it easy to learn: make your own comment, reply to the comments other people have made, talk to people in a space that's made for talking and replying.

You can make your own hush-hush commentary in your tags when you reblog a post to your blog, but these tags are not visible anywhere else. So Pillowfort is not gonna rat you out to OP when you make weird tags on your reblog. But also there is no bulit-in way to read everyone's tags in one long list.

You cannot make addendums to posts when you reblog them. If you want to add something, make a comment! Or make your own post and include link to the original post.

Seriously. Comments section. Good stuff. If you enjoy a post, check out its comment section. For comparison, tumblr discussions lived in reblogs, but comments on AO3 fics are what makes an author's world go 'round. Comments are where discussion lives on Pillowfort. So comment on the post if you have something to say! You can have real discussions again! GO. BE FREE. You can also do a Kung Pow Penis in nested comments if you want to. Nested comments are good.

Likes just tell OP you liked the post. That's it. It's just like how kudos works on AO3.

Remember, there's no algorithm, so Likes don't boost any post's visibility, and if you want other people to see a post, you reblog it. If you want to see posts, you follow people and communities, or you dive into the tags for yourself.

There's more details and things to know, but I think these are some good basics for "how the fuck do I even get started"

More how-to-pillowfort guides: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/3459763 by DoktorHobo https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/4099124 by rah https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/4404622 by killerandhealerqueen

In summary:

Make a blog. Make posts. Make a niche-interest Community or three. Follow people and Communities. Reblog other people's posts to your blog. Reblog posts to your niche-interest Communities. Make comments. Reply to comments. Love the comments. The comments are a fertile land and we will thrive. And we will call it... Pillowfort!

#pillowfort #talking #still figuring out cohost but i do like what people post there too

[ssspringroll]

Tumblr's been a rocky boat these last few days, things coming to a boiling point that have been simmering for years and years now.

I want you all to know that first and foremost this blog is in absolute 100% full support of trans women, trans femmes, and every other beautiful nuanced intricacy of gender one can be.

Secondly, if this website shits the bed further, and either deletes my account or the entire website goes under, I will not be migrating to another social media site. This is a link to my simfileshare cc folder, the main place I've uploaded all of my sfs files thus far. Feel free to bookmark it.

I don't plan on going anywhere anytime soon, but it's always good to think ahead.

I hope everyone, especially all of my trans followers, take care of themselves and have a wonderful day, evening, night, etc.

Remember to boost the voices of our trans sisters

#everyone is jumping ship to bluesky or cohost or pillowfort. #so i just wanted to be clear that i am not doing that. #if you have my discord ill probably still be available there for dms #but i dont really feel like learning the ecosystem of another website.

[choilacanth]

Made a Pillowfort account, I’m slowly reposting works I like over there. Also raunchy stuff is going up there from time to time since they absolutely allow that. :]

#Pillowfort #Feeling very lukewarm about PF but nobody is married to one single social media place #as of now it still doesn’t supply what I want in a website or function as a tool that helps #But it does supply deez nuts #social media rumble

[akuma-homura]

anyone want pillowfort invites and / or toyhou.se invites

i have. a number for both.

18 12 for toyhouse. uh. over 50 for pillowfort.

#[ ;text ] #toyhouse invite code #toyhouse #toyhouse invite #pillowfort #pillowfort invites #pillowfort invite #'course pillowfort has that waitlist now and apparently it shouldn't take long but #even still

[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.

#update #blog update #text #mastodon #tumblr #social media #bluesky #pillowfort #twitter #this sucks so much i like how tumblr archives stuff #the information talks about these talks happening in 2023 which wasn't a great year for tumblr #and 2024 is supposed to be the better Tumblr Spirit focused year #it has been a huge reason why there's been a slowdown of art. it's just exhausting #like honestly it's partially why i've focused more on vtuber things and sammi programming #i still WANT to draw but if people are just going to enable art theft like this... #i enjoy sharing my art with people. and i will continue to draw for myself and i guess for stream #ugh. so exhausting

[mattodore]

hello good morning happy thumb in his mouth tuesday (a day i just made up for matthias's slutty little whims)

#river dipping #theodore doe #matthias evanoff #echthroi #a burning house to live in #ts4 #blender #now i just have to make a pose where theo's thumb is in matthias's mouth so everything goes full circle #you already know matthias is gonna be on his knees for it 😌 #but anyway i finished making that first pose last night while recording a little video showing nene how i make poses #and then when i woke up i jumped back into blender to make another version of the pose but like. hornier. #i love making poses rn like i'm in blender so often these days... honestly i'm in blender more than i'm in the sims lmao #there's one i started working on like two days ago that is so... i wish i could share it on here but cock and balls are out in it </3 #placing so many curses on tumblr hq #...........i did make a pillowfort account tho so :) #i'll post the wip of it onto there when i get further along bc the pose is kind of messy atm. still trying to figure out the anatomy 😁🔫 #i actually made a pillowfort yesterday just to post an old screenshot from the casual oc save that i found again and had a good laugh at #i've been messing around on there and i really like how you can set posts to being just for logged in users / followers / mutuals #and there's an 18+ label you can slap onto your posts too #like it's great!!! tumblr sucks so bad why don't we have those options on here... seriously #ALSO you can turn off reblogs on pillowfort any time you want and you can set it so that it DELETES ANYONE ELSE'S REBLOGS OF THE POST!!! #WHY is that not an option on this website like i hate it hereeeeeeeeee #but anyway pillowfort also seems to not have that many people on it so like. that's literally perfect for me and my avpd #i'll probably end up posting on there a lot #...... oh and #nsft #?? just in case i mean matthias does in fact have a handful in that second pose there so. for the blacklists ☝️

[riftclaw]

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

#tumblr #good job guys a++ way of making me want to go to pillowfort and give them money instead #or dreamwidth #at least dreamwidth still has CUSTOM BLOGS

[trillionstars]

nick and olive make a porno on pillowfort (18+ LINK) toxic yuri on pillowfort (18+ LINK)

uploaded some old comics from 2020 to pillowfort! i still like the art in these and i'm pretty sure i never posted these anywhere other than in one of my zines on gumroad, so i put them here so they're more accessible. enjoy 🍆💦

#i still draw in this color blue a lot huh #✩ nick #✩ olive #✩ comics #✩ pillowfort

[revenantghost]

If tumblr dies I WILL be crying

#Where the hell is left?????? #Discord doesn't serve the same purpose Twitter is dying #Is Pillowfort still a thing? Aren't they struggling too?????? #Damn I'm sad ): #Yadda yadda

[raynedayys2]

Tumblr alternatives?

I have a pillowfort, but I don't think I'm gonna use it. I've also tried mastodon & bluesky but I can't really get into their queer communities.

#text post #tumblr #tumblr alternative #pillowfort #cohost #common tumblr l #uh I signed up for cohost on April 2 and I'm still in their '2 day waiting period' #and I likely won't be able to use the site for at least another week because there's 9000 people in front of me who also can't use the site

[jadelapis]

Finding the Recent Bullshit at Tumblr quite gross. I quite like how Tumblr "works" (or doesn't) but I'm wondering if I should go back to Pillowfort

#Boring Shit With Jude #MuFos if you want a Pillowfort Invite (if that's still a thing) just message me #If you're already on Pillowfort let's follow each other