apparently we are doing Imzy round 2.0?

[sciatrix]

Or at least, that's what Pillowfort sounds vaguely like to me. Well. Uh. I tried to join and got an error, so that's off to an excellent start.

ETA: And it looks like accounts will no longer be free, so I will not be joining--I'll sign up for something like metafilter since I'm paying for speaking access in a room of folks I already know and love and the work of the moderators that maintain that room, but I'm definitely not paying to join an unknown quantity with no known mod staff and no apparently ability to preview anything. Zzzzst, all interest dead. But I digress...

Honestly, I'm really using this discussion to find more interesting DW folks because I like it here, dammit, and I want to delurk more. So if you've recently had me following you, hi! I'm Sci, or I go by grison in a few places (notably AO3 and Tumblr). This is a general-purpose hi talk to me thread, if you're into things like that? If you've seen me following you, probably it's because I've seen you around for quite a while and am only just now delurking; hi! If you want to get a sense for who the hell I am, most of my longform stuff has been on Metafilter for the last few years; here are a few of the things I've written over there. I suppose I should think about porting some of those discussions over here, but.... meh. There's probably a limit to how much I can get away with pretending not to write my paper for the morning.

Anyway, here's a vague list of interesting conversations I've had, because that seems less awkward than just listing a bunch of identity terms into the void.

On allyship and men.

On the history of the asexual flag.

On my largest peeve about Ant Man. (Probably not for the reasons you think.)

On evangelicals actually putting their money with their mouths on morality.

On the meta I could find about good f/f porn.

On orchids blooming underground.

On parasitism in nature and science fiction, and whether or not we should talk about pregnancy. (Of course we should.)

On the loss of spikes in the (human) penis.

On the time I got very angry about an MRA who did not understand mammoths as well as he thought.

Anyway, hi!

Comments

[elf]

Pillowfort isn't going to be free? (I mean. Not surprised; the choices are basically "paid membership" or "ad-supported" or both, and both wouldn't surprise me.) I just got my beta invite yesterday; it's free so far.

I have no reason to believe they'll turn out any better than Imzy, although the interface is better. Not that I'd call it "good," but they haven't made a swarm of design decisions based on "branding" that are awful for a substantial number of users.

[doomhamster]

Eugh, PF isn't going to be free? -sound of interest plummeting-

In fact I was starting to wonder if it had any real chance to take off anyway, because it seems, at least superficially, very like tumblr. I've been wondering lately if one of the reasons DW has never gotten the attention it deserves from fandom isn't that fandom as a whole was getting really sick of LJ, and DW (understandably, since it was BUILT to be LJ-but-better) was too... viscerally similar?

[sebenikela]

hi! we started mutually-following each other on tumblr (i'm kawuli there) so I thought I'd try and connect over here where the signal-to-noise ratio is a little better :)

[jesse_the_k]

Proving my motto, "it's never too late to interact on DW," I'm here to say HI! I love your contributions on Metafilter and I'm so glad you're here.

[exasperative]

Hi! I'm testing Dreamwidth out over Pillowfort right now because it seems to line up better with the direction I want to go. I'm subscribing to a lot of people right now (including you!) to get a feel for post frequency etc. I'll probably do a prune once I've figured out how I'm going to use this dang thing.

I'm a legal assistant by day. It's been a long time since I've written anything for pleasure or even for consumption outside of the bar & bench, so I'm here to stretch a different muscle.

[swingandswirl]

Hello! I'm here via a post on AskMefi that links to your journal; you sound like a very cool person, and at least three of your links make me go 'oooh!' so, hi!

And honestly, staying away from PF seems like a good idea - I got in one of of the beta waves, but everything I've been hearing since makes me SO glad for DW, which is at least run by people who have the sense God gave a grasshopper.

[caeciliusinhorto]

So pillowfort is: Tumblr, except on a .io domain so porn is banned from the get-go, and I have to pay to use it, and there's no existing community that I would want to pay to join, and there's a 1Mb limit for images/gifs? And it's still in beta so things may change at any time without warning. And it's spent a not insignificant amount of time since tumblr's latest bullshit down for maintenance.

Well, I guess I'll wait and see whether it takes off, but... I'm not holding my breath.

[*Opens half a dozen tabs on meta about f/f porn for future reading*]

[eirias]

Hello! I recognize your username from metafilter! Someone else I know IRL pointed to your journal, so I thought I would say hello.