Oh, thank you so much! It looks so delightfully old-school :D I'll enjoy having a browse later on!
I totally get what you mean, and it's a bit of a relief to hear someone else express the same thing! Last year I blamed the fact that I didn't keep up blogging regularly after Snowflake for why the activity I'd enjoyed then didn't keep up on my other posts, but now that I've kept up a bit more momentum, I know it's not just that. I don't want to minimise the lovely people like yourself who comment on my posts, though, because I really appreciate it! But it's a bit jarring to go from the constant and reliable activity of the Snowflake Challenge to the comparative quiet afterwards. And while folks have made some suggestions for regular post types that I can make without too much effort (like Weekly Updates, 3 Good Things, etc.) I'm not always convinced that people will be interested enough to read them xD
(I have just started a regular post on Pillowfort called One Old Thing, One New Thing and I may cross-post it to DW too!)
Hmmm, how to best describe Pillowfort... In some ways it's like a smaller Dreamwidth and in some ways it's like a smaller Tumblr. I just saw a post from a long-standing PF user saying that Pillowfort was conceived more along the lines of Dreamwidth/LiveJournal than Tumblr, and yet I also noticed that a lot of people's feeds are pretty image/art-heavy. And I love visual art, but because Pillowfort is mostly too small for specific fandoms to have much activity, I can't follow people just for art from one fandom, and art from fandoms I don't follow is meaningless to me. There's some great original stuff too, though!
One of the biggest similarities to DW is probably the communities - they're a lot like Dreamwidth comms, and you can just Watch (subscribe to) them or you can Join and post. (You can also reblog to them which means that a post from your blog appears on the community but the original is still on your blog, and that's a decent safeguard in case the community disappears. I don't know if that happens much, though). A lot of the communities are sadly inactive, though, and/or have very few members, and that kind of discourages anyone new from joining them.
I've seen people make rec posts for active communities and promote initiatives to post more to communities, so it's nice to see some effort to combat that! It will be interesting to see how the 'Tumblr activity surge' plays out long-term. One last thing about the vibe of Pillowfort is that its long-time users are very passionate about it, so they welcome sincere efforts to be active there with open arms. It takes a bit of time and effort to find good people and communities to follow, but I feel like I'm getting to more of where the "action" is now, and that's nice. Pillowfort is also keen on discussing Pillowfort - and fannish social media in general xD - and having discussions about the State of the Web, all topics I enjoy talking about. So that's fun.
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Date: 2024-02-25 11:15 pm (UTC)I totally get what you mean, and it's a bit of a relief to hear someone else express the same thing! Last year I blamed the fact that I didn't keep up blogging regularly after Snowflake for why the activity I'd enjoyed then didn't keep up on my other posts, but now that I've kept up a bit more momentum, I know it's not just that. I don't want to minimise the lovely people like yourself who comment on my posts, though, because I really appreciate it! But it's a bit jarring to go from the constant and reliable activity of the Snowflake Challenge to the comparative quiet afterwards. And while folks have made some suggestions for regular post types that I can make without too much effort (like Weekly Updates, 3 Good Things, etc.) I'm not always convinced that people will be interested enough to read them xD
(I have just started a regular post on Pillowfort called One Old Thing, One New Thing and I may cross-post it to DW too!)
Hmmm, how to best describe Pillowfort... In some ways it's like a smaller Dreamwidth and in some ways it's like a smaller Tumblr. I just saw a post from a long-standing PF user saying that Pillowfort was conceived more along the lines of Dreamwidth/LiveJournal than Tumblr, and yet I also noticed that a lot of people's feeds are pretty image/art-heavy. And I love visual art, but because Pillowfort is mostly too small for specific fandoms to have much activity, I can't follow people just for art from one fandom, and art from fandoms I don't follow is meaningless to me. There's some great original stuff too, though!
One of the biggest similarities to DW is probably the communities - they're a lot like Dreamwidth comms, and you can just Watch (subscribe to) them or you can Join and post. (You can also reblog to them which means that a post from your blog appears on the community but the original is still on your blog, and that's a decent safeguard in case the community disappears. I don't know if that happens much, though). A lot of the communities are sadly inactive, though, and/or have very few members, and that kind of discourages anyone new from joining them.
I've seen people make rec posts for active communities and promote initiatives to post more to communities, so it's nice to see some effort to combat that! It will be interesting to see how the 'Tumblr activity surge' plays out long-term. One last thing about the vibe of Pillowfort is that its long-time users are very passionate about it, so they welcome sincere efforts to be active there with open arms. It takes a bit of time and effort to find good people and communities to follow, but I feel like I'm getting to more of where the "action" is now, and that's nice. Pillowfort is also keen on discussing Pillowfort - and fannish social media in general xD - and having discussions about the State of the Web, all topics I enjoy talking about. So that's fun.