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pillowfort-social · 4 months

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Thanks to your support on December 21, 2023 we reached our $25,000 Funding Goal to keep the lights on at Pillowfort. We're completely blown away by this turn of events. This wouldn't have been possible without you. Thank you for believing in us. Thank you for believing in our platform. This gives us approximately six months of funding, which we will use to put the rest of our business plan into action. It's still important to consider supporting us if you haven't yet by subscribing to Pillowfort Premium or donating to us directly. Any additional funding we receive now will help extend past that time-frame. As a reminder, here are our End of Year Fundraiser Rewards:

INDIVIDUAL USER REWARDS Funding Badges - Every Pillowfort user who donates or is subscribed to Pillowfort Premium duringthe timeframe of November 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023 will receive a limited edition badge for helping to keep the lights on. We’ll have a form available soon for gifting these badges to other users who can’t donate to us directly. Stay tuned to this space.

Invitation Rewards - This year we are also offering limited edition badges for users who help grow our Community between November 1st, 2023 to December 31, 2023. You can generate invitation links here. Based on your feedback we have added even more rewards for community members who invite 10, 25, or 40 or more new users between November 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023. In order to help our community reach these rewards we’ve increased the number of invites each user can generate per week to 50!

REWARDS FOR ALL USERS As a thank you for meeting 100% of our goal by December 31st, we will release a light/pastel theme and a Pillowfort avatar frame for all users in the first quarter of 2024! Details on both of these TBA– let us know if you have any suggestions/requests for what you’d like to see!

Thanks again for continued support, we truly couldn't do any of this without you.

Best, Staff

#pillowfort #pifo #we did it #thank you #pillowfort.social #fundraiser #social media #funding #goal #100%#pillowfort updates #avatar frames #business plan

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itsquakey · 2 months

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Alternatives you can move to if the Midjourney deal goes through (including me)

After getting some examples from fellow followers who want me to move to different places, here are a small group of places you can move to if Tumblr no longer becomes a safe place.

Newgrounds (I'd recommend being an adult to use this)

Pillowfort (Similar alternative to Tumblr)

Artfol

Bluesky

Artstation (Great for porfolio stuff)

Instagram (Kinda a shitty place to post but if you have no alternatives)

Co-host

Pixiv

Please add onto this with your own picked sites and apps, as I'd love to see

#midjourney #ai #art #important #for those wondering #pillowfort and artfol seem like the best for ME to use #keep an eye out for more updates

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mattodore · 4 months

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you want to play bitey?

#okay... sleep time for me. i leave you all with this <3 originally posted it to pillowfort but i'll share it here too #if you're like river didn't you already do a bitey edit before?#the answer is yeah back in may but that was when i'd just started editing and i don't like the way it looks plus theo's all wrong #so i wanted a new edit of him looking up at matthias like this with his updated sim and his pretty doe eyes...#river dipping #theodore doe #matthias evanoff #a burning house to live in #echthroi #ts4 #ts4 edit #ts4 screenshots #simblr #the sims 4 #sims 4 #...............................was gonna hit post and leave but i'm staring at this like i kinda want to make it my icon?#i'm a bit attached to my current icon i won't lie it's so pretty and theo has glasses and everything #but look at his eyes here.........................................#i'm so serious if theo looked up at me like this i would do literally anything he asked. if theo says let's jump off a bridge well! okay!#i love him dearly <3 but. i gotta go seriously i have to be up by six!! i'm on a strict schedule now!!#when i log back in i'll show what this looked liked before i edited it bc ykw... i think i'm getting pretty good at editing now #not where i wanna be just yet but! still proud i think <3 but yeah yeah okay gn

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eljeebee · 2 months

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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.

#moving to pillowfort #Pillowfort #lana rambles #blog updates

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gramophoneturtle · 2 months

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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

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conkers-thecosy · 9 days

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"Backs To The Wall" - Sneak Peak: Chapter 24

#conkers corner #conkers quotes #backs to the wall #bttw #it's a pillowfort link - let me know if it doesn't work for folks without an account there #I'm posting updates to ko-fi as well and I'm pretty sure you don't need a log in to read it there so I can send you that link instead #these are the only two platforms I feel are safe from data being sold to ai companies just now though sorry!

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sesamenom · 18 days

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welp dashboard unfucker finally died so I will probably be a little less active here and a little more active on Goblin

#not silm #not art #tumblr #tumblr update #goblin #goblin band #funnily enough though goblin uses the vertical layout so it actually did help me get more accustomed to it #so the change isnt quite as surprising/distressing than at first?#but yeah i'm on pillowfort and goblin #pifo doesnt' quite have the same interaction so less fandom stuff there probably #but if you want a goblin invite just message me!

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zorasink · 2 months

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about tumblr

i have been thinking into having a acct on pillowfort since the new partnership that tumblr has does concern me not only as a artist but as a storyteller with my stories i hold dearly i dont want AI to ever be looking, taking, and stealing the stuff i create with my heart but im not sure if i should go to pillowfort or somewhere else i am downloading nightshade and glaze since i have so much history on tumblr here and i still want to post art but with the changes in here, im not sure if i will post art here i do have a twt account if any of my followers want to follow me there (https://twitter.com/ZoraSink) but yeah just a update in general ill be posting art on twt for now until either tumblr backs down from their partnership (i have a feeling they wont) and i might make a pillowfort account speaking of ik that pillowofrt has a waiting list but im not sure if i wanna go to pillow fort so does anyone have any other websites to post art? ik that artgram is doing well but on the website its more for professional portfolio art anyway that is enough rambing

#my thoughts #my post #tumblr #pillowfort #artgram #nightshade #glaze #update post

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dreams-of-pepperoni-and-grease · 10 months

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Hello everyone!! Lunar here!! Just wanted to say that this au blog will be getting more updates in the future!! I have not forgotten about this blog yet!! I've just been having a creator's block, so please stick with me!!

#pillowfort au #pizza tower #pizza tower au #update #blog update

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fruitsgoblin · 6 months

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re: the latest tumblr news

is it really that shocking or alarming to people that the site is being put on a skeleton crew? no it's not dying, but it's definitely not receiving further updates

you either support the websites you like or you don't. this was coming. the best thing that could happen now would be for someone else to grab tumblr I guess... preferably a smaller group that actually cares

#melon talks #people will shit on tumblr as a platform and then when its gone they finally realize how good they had it here #yeah its obviously not perfect especially with the staff #but goddamnit if it isnt the best fucking place for fandom nonsense and fanart #I swear if tumblr is to go soon and I see yall crying abt it dont get weird when we go “we told you so”#im a lil salty yeah. we like to shit and talk abt how tumblr is the hellsite but people take it for granted so bad #when its gone good luck finding a similar space #dont say pillowfort because PF has slowed down considerably in its progress and updates --#--you only saw regular updates on PF during the time everyone was leaving #correct me if im wrong but I just went there and it still looks like a website in beta test

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pillowfort-social · 6 months

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Site Patch 11/3

We've spent the last few hours making some significant changes to the site's database, which we hope will improve the slow loading times that some of you have been experiencing lately. Let us know if you notice a performance improvement or not, particularly on the home feed and search results.

Additionally, we've released fixes for the following bugs:

Fixed a bug causing the Notifications feed to fail to load in some circumstances

Fixed a bug causing Search results to fail to load in some circumstances

Fixed a bug causing the mutual followers page to return an error in some circumstances

Let us know if you are still experiencing any new issues since this week's earlier site update.

Best, Staff

#pillowfort #pillowfort.social #pillowfort updates #site update

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mattodore · 6 months

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waking up to paragraphs worth of insight into my friend’s ocs

#river dipping #LOVE IT HEREEEEE #also asking a question and being like ''HMMM i get the sense that __? is this right or am i maybe misreading them...?''#and being told like YEAH it kinda is actually #makes me wanna jump around like LOVEEEE BEING ABLE TO SEE AND UNDERSTAND THEM #but okay let me dig into this and then :3c i'm getting in game to go take updated pics of theo and pics for the oc page #and then i gotta test out all the poses i've made recently and maybe get something worthy of using that 18+ label on pilowfort :3c #i don't... remember if i said this on here or if it was on pillowfort but i spent aWHILE working on customizing all of theo's beauty marks #i finished them all up yesterday but alas... spent like five hours afterward downloading cc and not actually getting in game for new pics #but i'll do it soon :-)#next i just have to start working on matthias's scars... i'm nawt looking forward to that one 🚶#when i say he was tortured i mean that literally... so i'm not sure how much justice i can do to how i picture some of his scars #but i'll practice making them over the next few months (bc i imagine it'll take a while to make them nicely...)

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groovysaber · 12 days

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I JUST REALISED IM THE #spawnday BOY AGAIN ON GAMEJOLT

all the epic info is found here on my main blog

or the Gamejolt Link!

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omgkayplays · 3 months

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finally updated my game...now to update my mods

#kay rambles #haven't updated since the horse pack lmao #also updated my bio to include my pillowfort username

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gramophoneturtle · 27 days

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Update/Pinned Post

Welcome to my art archive. I've posted a lot about my OCs, TWEWY, Persona 5, Xenoblade X and in other fandoms.

Unfortunately due to recent-ish changes on Tumblr I no longer feel comfortable posting here much or at all. I'll keep my blog up for the foreseeable future or maybe even forever because of how Tumblr stores data. I'd rather have the link back to the source.

Or if the other sites explode in the meantime.

This has nothing to do with the date sadly. I'm just at my limit.

Here's where you can find me:

Pillowfort: gramophoneturtle. The most artist respected place and a decent long form blogging place.

Neocities: I'm currently developing an art archive on neocities over here. This will be THE archive place, one day! With RSS, one day!

Bluesky: gramophoneturtle. Twitter replacement. I don't trust it but it's meshing with me more than mastodon. Stream announcements are here b/c I ran out of energy for crossposting.

cohost: gramophoneturtle. I don't trust it'll stay but it has both a draft system & can save alt text on draft edits. Wild stuff to praise but when porting art out of Tumblr, it's helpful to have new drafts.

Twitch & YouTube: I stream weekly on Twitch and store VODs on both. Twitch has all my VODs and YouTube has VODs from Fall 2023 and onwards.

More details, pros and cons about each site below for those who are curious. Thanks for sticking around and reading.

Pillowfort

It's user funded and transparent about the breakdown of funds

They're against generative AI. Their reinforcement came out around the time Tumblr's not-really-against-it stance came out. This is huge to me.

They're working on a PWA of the site so it will have a way to function like a smartphone app

Image post options aren't great but you aren't limited to 4 (unlike cohost - kinda, and Bluesky)

Alt text gets eaten if you edit a post currently which is awful. (Tumblr used to do this.) Alt text isn't an option for picture type posts but is for text posts with pictures. But hey at least you can include alt text!

Communities are nice for fandoms and stuff. You can search by tags but you don't follow tags, you join/watch communities.

They have funding for the next 6 months past any month that was fully funded. So as of April 1, 2024, funding should last until (the end?) of October if they were to not get any more donations/subscriptions from now on. Basically, they have a 6 month buffer and so far for 2024 they've been keeping it and maintaining their monthly funding goals

Neocities

Home page URL should not change but artwork URLs might

The artwork section is inspired by Tumblr's archive page/system. I don't think I want it to be exactly like it (might be a limitation of static pages re: tag filtering) but I want to try and partially make it

Artwork on there have been nightshaded and glazed. I would like to reglaze some pieces that are too glazed for my liking, now that I have a better computer for it (so it doesn't take forever). That's why not a lot of art is on there yet

I might go into detail about how I automated some of the web dev stuff to make my life easier on my my main blog. In summary: I'm using 11ty (eleventy), generating pages from data and templates, using github for version control and github actions for updating the site automatically

Bluesky:

Feeds are cool. I've found and made (through SkyFeed) a lot of Feeds. Feeds can look for text in posts and alt text, and/or specific tags. Can filter out reblogs or replies. Can work off of user lists. Can include/exclude specific posts - like Twitter Moments. There's a lot of flexibility and filtering.

Feeds can lookback anywhere from 25 hours to 1 week when not looking at one user. So when pulling from many users, you could just get the latest updates. For one user (say your own gallery of whatever) you're allowed to go back to the beginning, it can be your art gallery. And then people can just follow that feed so you don't have to worry about your art getting buried if people just want to follow your art

There's a setting you can turn on to warn and prevent you from posting until you add alt text. I love this. Especially since, like Twitter, you can't go back and edit a post

Forcing ALT text has the added bonus of leaving it last so I can double check tags and text in case I accidentally hit the post button before I'm ready

Twitch

There is art. And VTuber stuff. And life updates. Art/project updates. Lots of OC talk. Like I wish I could post more about Null considering how much stuff I've spoken about them on stream but freaking time! And energy.

YouTube

Used to do more Timelapses but stopped because laptop was not having fun with it. Now that I have a new computer it might be better!

Also has Twitch VODs because I want another place to back up VODs since local recordings take up a lot of space. And I can mark Chapters(/Moments?) timestamps to find stuff again.

Special thank you to those that made it all the way down here!

So what is the blog for now? Archiving, mainly, as I said at the beginning. I might link to my neocities page in maybe art updates or to pillowfort. And I might need a place to fall back to if the other sites don't last. I know bluesky and cohost are not much better/probably not better in other ways so I know that posting on them probably won't be good long term.

But that's why I'm working on the art archive site on the side. I'll always have a safe and controlled place where I can have all my art and details and stuff. It's gonna take a while and it's challenging but it's what I feel like I gotta do now.

I'm just so tired.

#update #tumblr #pillowfort #neocities #bluesky #cohost #twitch #youtube #text #social media #blog update #the like...guilt...or betrayal of sharing my creations on a site that has caused enough harm that i just Mentally Can't anymore #it's a struggle #again: i don't think bluesky and cohost are better #...i have a feeling april 1st is a poor day to post an update like this but i just need to post this while i'm ready to

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phycorb · 9 months

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With tumblr taking twitter's example and self-destructing, can we start considering moving to pillowfort?

It has such a cozy look, and I love its functionality.

The only reasons why tumblr is appealing are

Blogging function, which pillowfort also has

All the customization, which they're taking away anyway

The community

There's no alternative to tumblr currently because tumblr culture / the community here is unique to tumblr. The humour is unique to tumblr. But if we all moved to pillowfort, it would become a great new home for us.

The ability to customize blogs is also unique to tumblr, but it seems it is slowly being taken away, so that makes one less reason to stay here.

I actually gave tumblr some money because I thought then they would listen to our wishes, but clearly they won't, so I think its time to start talking about a new website to use

#tumblr change #staff #tumblr update #pillowfort #reblogs #messages #custom theme

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