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!
I’m not jumping ships but I am, I’ll be getting a pillowfort account for all my accounts. I’ll be updating everyone with links once I get set up
YOU FUCKING IDIOTS MASTODON IS USED AS A MEETING HUB FOR PEDOPHILES BECAUSE ITS ALMOST COMPLETELY UNSUPERVISED
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plus they cant interact with us and we cant interact with them. .social is its own thing entirely
I hate seeing posts like this with blatant misinformation garnering thousands upon thousands of notes so, here’s how Mastodon actually works for those that aren’t familiar with it (and also why you should recognize people calling it “a meeting hub for pedophiles” and “completely unsupervised” as just blatantly incorrect / fearmongering)
Mastodon is different from any popular social media you are probably accustomed to- tumblr, twitter, instagram, reddit, etc. It’s different in that mastodon is free software that can be set up and run by anyone. Mastodon is based on an open standard (called Activitypub) designed to be able to freely share Content in between “federated” servers.
If those words flew over your head, I’ll give an example. Basically, just imagine mastodon like e-mail. There are thousands of websites out there that you could sign up for to get an email address, such as gmail, yahoo, outlook, protonmail, etc. You could even set up your own email server if you have the technical know-how to do so.
Yet, despite the fact that all of these individual websites are owned and operated by different companies/groups, all with varying rules and methods of operation, no matter what email service you sign up for anywhere on the internet, any email address can send emails to anyone else on the internet, regardless of where they’re signed up for.
Mastodon works the same way! So, mastodon is not a single website, but a “federated network” of many different “instances” that all have their own staff, moderation policies, etc. Anyone can start up an instance at any time for whatever they want.
There’s no single person or group that controls the mastodon network as a whole, and therefor no single point of failure for it. There are simply many instances with many different rulesets and communities, and if you find out an instance you’re on allows for nasty stuff to be posted or shared, you can just jump ship to another instance. There are tools they give you to do this easier, as well.
https://joinmastodon.org/ explains a lot about how mastodon works if you’re not satisfied with my explanation.
Most popular mastodon instances have very strict rules against pedophilia, as well as even fascism/nazism or hate speech, much stricter than you would ever find on twitter or tumblr. There are in fact instances that allow such vile content, but most popular instances block the other instances that do allow nazism/cp outright. If the instance you are looking into is lax on pedophilia then just join another instance.
As you can see in the screenshot in the previous reblog, someone explains that the instance mentioned by the op is blocked outright by mastodon.social, the “flagship” mastodon instance. So even the most populous general-use mastodon instance blocks that kind of garbage.
NO, mastodon is not perfect. It has many flaws and problems with its core infrastructure that make it hostile to creative types hoping to get discovered on mastodon, and a lot of the lead developers make some (imo) pretty stupid decisions at times, sometimes dragging the whole community back. But, I dunno about you, but I’m not asking for perfection. Just something that works and is based on values which give more power and discretion to the end user.
TL;DR, op is spreading misinformation / fearmongering, for every mastodon server that condones pedophilia there’s 100 that blacklist that server outright and have strict rules against disgusting filth like that, including the ““main”“ mastodon server.
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