“you shouldn’t apply morality to shipping and fandom” you should apply morality to everything you idiot. you can’t remove yourself from the concepts of right and wrong at your own convenience
in particular, you should apply morality with logic. i’ve found this works well in a shipping setting.
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I was in a Fanders voice chat today, and a lot of us realized that we felt pressured to perform in the Sanders Sides fandom to fit in. We reblog certain posts because everyone else is reblogging them; we agree with certain opinions because we feel like that’s what people want from us. We feel unable to be ourselves; we feel afraid to open up about our identities beyond generalized labels; and we worry about backlash if we post our genuine ideas, thoughts, content, and opinions.
A lot of us don’t feel good enough to talk to people with relatively larger follower counts due to overlord mentality. We’re afraid to share our writing and art, and we don’t feel like our ideas will count because they seem “unpopular.” We feel like we have to participate in drama or call out culture because we don’t want the backlash of going against the status quo. But what was more eye-opening to all of us tonight when discussing all of this was realizing that we all resonate with these feelings so deeply. If a lot of us feel this way, there’s a chance that all of us are performing for each other, when none of us really want to perform in the first place. We all wish we could be ourselves, but we’re too afraid of putting ourselves out there because of the unhealthy patterns of thinking that have prevailed as a part of Internet culture.
As someone not involved in the development of pillowfort but am a web developer, I think you should lower your expectations, but not for the reason you think.
Pillowfort is a baby. A newborn. A smol bab. If you were here during the early days of Tumblr, think of that.
Pillowfort simply cannot be the immediate solution to your woes. It needs to be nurtured and cared for to become a mature and happy adult.
If you want Pillowfort to work, they’ll need feedback, advice, bug reports, etc. This is a chance to make Pillowfort the Ao3 of Fanfiction.net. It’s not gonna happen overnight, you need to give it time and love and it’ll get there.
If you don’t want to pay money to get into the beta, that’s ok. It will be open to the public soon enough and you won’t have to pay a dime. Their financial model moving forward sounds good (a subscription fee for super extra features), but even an Ao3 model would work swell for them probably.
We’re living in an interesting time on the internet. Governments across the world are cracking down on content and yet community run websites are starting to thrive more and more.
Tumblr once upon a time was what Pillowfort is today, but this time, let’s make sure Pillowfort can stay independent from mega corporations.
yes this
most of the criticism i’ve seen of pf so far ultimately come back to this
is it an alright platform with a good community? yes. does it have a lot of potential? yes. does it have a lot of problems still being worked out? yes. are the staff open and responsive? absolutely. do i recommend it? yes, if you’re willing to live in a house while it’s being built.
but it’s not a ready-made replacement for tumblr. set your expectations accordingly.
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