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Pillowfort feels to me a little like Tumblr and Facebook had a baby that was the best part of both of them – it takes a little figuring out to navigate but once you do it’s pretty easy to use. It’s an essentially Tumblr interface, just with added bells and whistles in some places.
There are some downsides – it doesn’t currently have an app, though it’s relatively mobile-friendly. It’s not as flexible in terms of how you can design a post and what you can upload as Tumblr is, but that’ll change with time and with more users. Basically it’s like…training-wheels tumblr. It’s a pretty good site and I think it will only get better.
It does have threaded comments, which is awesome for people who miss those from the LJ days, but there are some downsides to that too. So far, what I’ve seen is that way more people choose to make a comment and not reblog. This has two problems:
1. If you’re commenting rather than reblogging then the post isn’t going to gain traction in the same way it otherwise might and fewer people will see it. Posts don’t circulate nearly as widely, at least in my experience, so if you’re not going to one specific person’s blog you may never see what they’re posting, even if it’s shit you want to see. There are advantages to the ability of a post to go viral. Mind you, this may be the product of a lot of early PF adopters being huge fans of threaded comments from the LJ days and so more inclined not to reblog, and with a younger/more tumblr-trained crowd incoming that could change. But there is a strong social pressure, if you CAN comment and get a response you’ll actually see, to comment rather than reblog and “spam” other peoples’ dashes.
2. With threaded comments, a lot of the discussion gets siloed off into little threads in the post, rather than being visible to everyone. That CAN be a good thing, but traditionally it has also made dogpiling much easier, because you don’t have to be an asshole to someone on your OWN blog – you can be an asshole in comments where only other people, also coming to the thread to be assholes, can see you. There’s a reason fandom_wank wasn’t a thing anymore once fandom mostly moved to tumblr – it’s because there’s no cohesive way to document a wank on tumblr, whereas with threaded comments it’s alllllll laid out.
Honestly though I think it’s our best alternative. But partly I’m just praying fandom doesn’t move to Discord. :D
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Pillowfort feels to me a little like Tumblr and Facebook had a baby that was the best part of both of them – it takes a little figuring out to navigate but once you do it’s pretty easy to use. It’s an essentially Tumblr interface, just with added bells and whistles in some places.
There are some downsides – it doesn’t currently have an app, though it’s relatively mobile-friendly. It’s not as flexible in terms of how you can design a post and what you can upload as Tumblr is, but that’ll change with time and with more users. Basically it’s like…training-wheels tumblr. It’s a pretty good site and I think it will only get better.
It does have threaded comments, which is awesome for people who miss those from the LJ days, but there are some downsides to that too. So far, what I’ve seen is that way more people choose to make a comment and not reblog. This has two problems:
1. If you’re commenting rather than reblogging then the post isn’t going to gain traction in the same way it otherwise might and fewer people will see it. Posts don’t circulate nearly as widely, at least in my experience, so if you’re not going to one specific person’s blog you may never see what they’re posting, even if it’s shit you want to see. There are advantages to the ability of a post to go viral. Mind you, this may be the product of a lot of early PF adopters being huge fans of threaded comments from the LJ days and so more inclined not to reblog, and with a younger/more tumblr-trained crowd incoming that could change. But there is a strong social pressure, if you CAN comment and get a response you’ll actually see, to comment rather than reblog and “spam” other peoples’ dashes.
2. With threaded comments, a lot of the discussion gets siloed off into little threads in the post, rather than being visible to everyone. That CAN be a good thing, but traditionally it has also made dogpiling much easier, because you don’t have to be an asshole to someone on your OWN blog – you can be an asshole in comments where only other people, also coming to the thread to be assholes, can see you. There’s a reason fandom_wank wasn’t a thing anymore once fandom mostly moved to tumblr – it’s because there’s no cohesive way to document a wank on tumblr, whereas with threaded comments it’s alllllll laid out.
Honestly though I think it’s our best alternative. But partly I’m just praying fandom doesn’t move to Discord. :D
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