Pillowfort

[lizbee]

I may have once described Pillowfort as the Dashcon of social media platforms, but I also signed up for a beta account, just on the off chance it actually succeeds.

(You may laugh ... but by the time I gave in and conceded that Tumblr was A Thing, someone else had claimed my preferred username.)

Anyway, I'm there as lizbee, but I don't rate its chances of long-term success -- aside from the fact that future sign-ups are closed except to Kickstarter supporters (um), the "block user" and "report user" buttons are right next to the one for "send user a message", and the button for "delete account" is where you'd expect to find "save changes" on the edit settings page. I know very little about website design and usability, but that seems ... bad.

(Also, the ToU has a note to say they collect user data, but not what they use it for, or if they have any policies in place for sharing/not sharing said data. Seems like an oversight, no?)

Comments

[nostalgia]

whats a pillowfort

[conuly]

For some reason, somebody decided fandom needed a new social site to hang out on.

[nostalgia]

another one????

[sabra_n]

They're billing it as being closer to LJ/DW in style. We shall see, I suppose.

[sassbandit]

Agreed 100%. I'm namesquatting there, too, but I don't expect it to take off.

[marymac]

Well I assume they don't plan to have European user, then, cause if they don't fix that ToU they're going to get GDPRed.

[nonelvis]

Curiously, when I wrote them a while back to ask about their GDPR policies -- I'd been looking into them myself for Teaspoon -- I never got a response. Nor, frankly, am I ever expecting one.

[gelliaclodiana]

I am namesquatting as wel, as vaznetti -- I will look you up! -- since this post reminded me to actually activate my account there.

[jesuswasbatman]

Yep, the total lack of any data policy is seriously disturbing. Hope they're simply clueless rather than being seriously dodgy types trusting that everyone will just assume they're "woke".

[lizbee]

I suspect it's genuine cluelessness, but after Universal FanCon, I'm definitely more suspicious of well-intentioned idiots with Kickstarter money.

[musesfool]

Yeah, I'm namesquatting (I didn't even try to sign up with musesfool on tumblr, but recently found that SOMEONE ELSE DID, which. what?) but I haven't even poked around. It doesn't seem viable to me, but I guess stranger things have happened...

[sabra_n]

I'm namesquatting there too. :)

[monanotlisa]

Yeah, I took a look at it and went, LOL!11!

But I namesquatted nonetheless.

[prof_pangaea]

i’m not even bothering to squat since it doesn’t remotely look like a real business, nor are the developers remotely prepared for it to be