Tumblr is apparently doing some crazy nonsense again, so it seems like a good time to remind everyone that Pillowfort.io is a new social media platform that aims to give users control of their content and how it’s seen and shared, as well as provide better communication tools to promote conversation and creativity. If this sounds good to you, you can donate $5 to our PayPal and you will receive a registration link the Friday after your donation. And if you decide the site isn’t for you, you can request a refund for up to three weeks after you sign up. (All money we receive through this process is going towards paying our hosting expenses and compensating our programmers.)
Reblogging this in light of the recent news, since we’ve been getting a lot of questions from people looking to join. If you’ve sent us a payment since the 16th of November you will receive your invitation email shortly after the site returns, which will likely be tomorrow! If you want to purchase more than one registration link ($5 per link, so $15 for example would get you 3 registration links) you can give them to anyone you want– the ones you purchase are not tied to your account in any way.
Now, Pillowfort will not always require a payment to sign up; we are doing this because we are still in the process of implementing our subscription plan, which will be our source of long-term revenue, and these payments through PayPal give us funding to make sure we can pay all our server expenses, employee compensation, etc. while we are still working on implementing our business plan. Once we exit beta you will be able to join the site and use all of its essential features
for free, with the option to pay for some extra goodies similar to what LiveJournal and DreamWidth offer in their subscription plans.
No but for real there’s shooting yourself in the foot and then there’s aiming a whole fucking bazooka at your legs. I cannot fathom what Tumblr is thinking banning “adult contact” in its entirety. I’m very much not a fan of porn but they even admitted that they’re using bots to decide what is and isn’t “adult content“, and judging by how well those bots have worked in the past (doing things like blocking a video of my cat Sophie for nudity and applying “restricted content“ filters on the most random of posts), this will only guarantee that more completely innocent blogs get nuked, as well as things like art blogs that show little too much anime titty or fanfiction that mentions the sex. Even Christian sex info blogs like @holy-sexuality could be in danger. This is the implosion of the website as we know it. Tumblr will be as obsolete as Myspace and as deleted as Vine in the next six months.
Oh. Well. I did approve of this solely on the assumption that humans would be a part of the process. Seeing as the Supreme Court long ago realized you couldn’t have an algorithm for this particular thing. Never mind and scratch everything.
Here’s the quote if anyone missed it:
“Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.”
The Turin Erotic Papyrus // Egypt // Ramesside Period c.1150 BC
I think is gonna be classified art…but we shall see.
It is art. But if it’s flagged it will get stuck in ‘review’ for lord only knows how long (some people get things stuck there for months) and whilst posts are flagged/under review your blog is removed from search.
That’s the point. Half a dozen (or more) examples of Egyptian Art have already been flagged and are now stuck in review
fair--y backup 