I was curious to see how the ages of my followers varied over various social media. As expected, dreamwidth skews slightly older. But it was also interesting to see how the responses varied in other ways.

Ages:

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Pillowfort bans someone for NSFW content in a very hamfisted way

Expect anything you do on Pillowfort.io to be publicly-visible and temporary

Also see: VidMe or Why Platforms Aren't Your Friends (which someone posted to tumblr with some Pillowfort commentary but I didn't save the post ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

It's paid accounts and opt-in advertising:

• Premium Account Features: Essential site features will remain free from a paywall, while users can pay for premium features. (For example: being able to upload larger file sizes, uploading gifs to a library, personal analytics.)
  
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Sigh.

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

This entry was originally posted at https://alias-sqbr.dreamwidth.org/669288.html. There are
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A crosspost of this writscrib post where I test everything out ( Read more... )

To complete the set I also signed up for Writscrib, another attempt to cross the best bits of tumblr and lj. I'm sqbr there as well. It's in open beta ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

There was some discussion on twitter about how appalling twitter is, and since Mastodon seems to be the most popular alternative I decided to check it out. And then the helper tool led me to an instance that let me be sqbr@im-in.space and I had to join ( Read more... )

The irc-like chat program Discord is the new shiny fannish social media. One advantage over irc is that it shows all messages posted, not just the ones you're there for, which makes for a better ongoing conversation. The advantage over tumblr etc is the ability to have private-ish, moderated, communal conversations. The advantage over message ( Read more... )