alias_sqbr

There's been a very Strikethrough-esque purging of accounts on tumblr recently. Apple removed the app because there was too much Inappropriate Content so tumblr used a highly unreliable automated process to remove accounts, and enough people have been hit that's there's a general air of "maybe this is going to be it for me and/or the site".

People have been posting links to their other social media, so! From most to least used:
I'm here(*) on dreamwidth at alias_sqbr and sqbr
Twitter: sqbr
Mastodon: sqbr at im-in.space
Pillowfort: sqbr

And while I'm listing things:
Tumblr: alias-sqbr and sqbr
AO3: sqbr
DeviantArt: sqbr

I also have Serious Game Developer etc accounts but I don't publicly link those to this pseudonym.

(*)Which is to say, I am making this post on dreamwidth, but this line is aimed at those reading the livejournal and tumblr crossposts, because anyone reading on dreamwidth probably knows my dw username already ;)

Sigh.

Staff still haven't actually answered my question, I just saw this linked somewhere else.

I joined the latest beta round of the social media site Pillowfort. So I made sqbr and joined some communities. It's nice enough, very quiet.

Structure-wise it's a sort of mix of dreamwidth/lj and tumblr: posts have a comment section, but can also be reblogged if marked rebloggable. Communities also have chat posts in a sidebar organised by "most recently commented on". Making posts is very tumblr-ish, including in-built image hosting (that crashed when I tried to use it :/)

Also: it seems like you have to write your posts in rich text D:

The "friendslock" feature is weird, unless I'm misunderstanding it: the only option is to show posts only to people who follow you, rather than only people you follow. That seems open to abuse.

You can turn on reblogs, comments, and "nsfw" on a post by post basis which is nice.

Most of the communities I joined haven't had any posts in months, or have one dedicated poster doggedly talking about their OCs to the void.

There's an in-built tag blacklist function. To test it out I added a tag on the top post of my feed and the post vanished entirely, which I don't like. I much prefer xKit's "a post has been blocked for containing X tag" approach, that way I can decide if I want to check it out based on my mood, who posted it, the other tags, etc.

It's a little slow, but it did just get an influx of new users and is still in beta.

Based on the most popular communities, the people there skew fannish, creative, and queer, which is no bad thing.

They got their initial costs paid for by an indiegogo compaign but I can't see any way for them to make money long term, unless they're planning on adding paid accounts/ads later.

Overall I see them going the same way as imzy and soup: a nice idea that won't take off. But we'll see.