#pillowfort

[childrengore]

IMPORTANT: Help Pillowfort become a non-profit!

To cut to the chase: I’m making this post because Pillowfort needs some helping hands.

Dear Pillowfolks,To cut to the chase: I’m making this post because Pillowfort needs some helping hands.I started Pillowfort ten years ago be

[mustinvestigate]

Pillowfort has built a site culture where positive interactions and productive conversations form the expected baseline of what a lively dis

[ooksaidthelibrarian]

Pillowfort has built a site culture where positive interactions and productive conversations form the expected baseline of what a lively dis

neat essay about comment culture

[pillowfort-social]

Hey everyone! We want to make Pillowfort a non-profit, but we need to bring together a team to make that happen. In order to register as a nonprofit, we will need at least three board members to assume the roles of President and Secretary. We’re also looking for people to join as directors and/or to helm the following responsibilities:

General Operations & Administration

Development

System Administration

App Security

Legal

Finance (Treasurer role)

Content Moderation

Community Management

If you're interested in joining Pillowfort in one of these capacities, please follow this link to read more about our goals & how you can help us!

[motherblackcap]

I do occasionally see some hand-wringing about people moving onto Pillowfort, with concerns about whether it's a sustainable platform compared to tumblr, considering it's dependent on its userbase for donations. Here are a few points that I think should be raised, as someone who does use Pillowfort:

The reason Pillowfort runs on user donations is so that it doesn't have to rely on advertisers to keep the site afloat. The site is completely ad-free.

For the last few months, Pillowfort has almost consistently been meeting its donation targets. This is likely due to a large influx of people moving from other sites (tumblr included, but apparently some people from bluesky as well) in the past year or so.

Despite the increasing number of users, the cost of running the website hasn't increased. In fact, last month, it went down! The monthly goal was previously ~$7000 USD, and now it's $5,500 USD.

Despite the monthly goal being reduced, the donations haven't slowed much, meaning the site, as of today (9th July, for me) currently stands at 30% funded for the month. That's greatly over what it's usually been at this time of the month, and indicates that the site is growing more sustainable with time.

[motherblackcap]

A community for aspecs, no matter their identity, and their supporters. Share your memes, your experiences, your positivity, whatever! As l

I've set up an aspec-focused community on Pillowfort! I've just created it today so it's pretty much empty, but hopefully it starts to flourish as more people join :D

Gratuitous Pillowfort multi-use invite below, for those who don't currently have an account (I recommend it!):

[iimpavidwrites]

either i'm a fool clown and cannot figure out how to do it or tumblr doesn't permit you to reblog your own content to communities-- rather you must post to the comm first, then reblog.

this irks me.

pillowfort's comm system makes more sense to me. but, then, that's why i'm mostly over there.

[ciijaygw2]

This account was one out of two of my sideblogs that were removed without notice, since earlier this week. I only was able to reinstate it as of yesterday - thanks to Tumblr staff/CS.

Thankfully, this blog is mostly related to reblogging. However, moving forward, I don't plan to really post new content to Tumblr after this experience. I'll be using it to reblog some stuff and like content, but all of my Guild Wars 2 content moving forward will be on my PillowFort related to Fandom stuff: CiijayFan !

Feel free to check em out on there!