(I saw somebody on what's left of hypno-fetish Tumblr† respond to the Patreon thing with something like "they're cracking down on us because of those shady manipulative hypnotists that try to pull shit like hypnotizing you into buying their stuff, this is because we weren't good enough at kicking the assholes out of our community", and I wanted to scream. That's not how this works! That's *never* been how this works! Ethical or unethical, fluffy or dark, bottom or top, *the censors don't care*! As far as they're concerned, we are *all* rapists!)
Twitter does seem popular, for reasons that I've never really been able to grok myself. (I like to make relatively long posts, with plenty of embedded links to provide context.) I've been seeing a fair few people on Mastodon, which I've poked at but never really posted on. The amount of Pillowfort I'm seeing is currently only slightly worrisome (I Cannot handle a site as fundamentally hostile to archiving as Pillowfort is), but I suspect that's mostly because Tumblr is still limping along: when it finally collapses, Pillowfort is currently a major contender for who will be picking up the slack.
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I've been surprised by how *much* I have to say, personally. I've been holding that bug post in reserve for like three weeks, waiting until there was a lull (so that I could spread my posts out more evenly).
And while Dreamwidth doesn't *always* deliver social interaction, there have been many mornings where my usual morning video-game time was shortened or absent because I ended up writing a Dreamwidth comment/post instead. (Indeed, this is happening right now.) Many of them have been in response to comments on my posts, so maybe there's some "if you build it, they will come" going on there.
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I've been doing the occasional wikiwalk, wandering through friends-of-friends to see if I can find more people to add. It's a minefield of SJ Discourse out there, but then so is Tumblr, and I did find mindstalk recently.
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†Quite a few of them are currently flying under the radar by sticking to text, audio, and [images that are only sexual when viewed through kink goggles].
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A lot of people who tried out Dreamwidth in December didn't stay here. On the one hand I can't really blame them: I didn't stick around most of the platforms *I* researched then, plus "abstract free-speech principles" is a less compelling reason to make your home here than "I personally talk about weird sex sometimes, and historically, once people start putting censorship restrictions on sexuality hypno-fetishists are ~second on the list".
(I saw somebody on what's left of hypno-fetish Tumblr† respond to the Patreon thing with something like "they're cracking down on us because of those shady manipulative hypnotists that try to pull shit like hypnotizing you into buying their stuff, this is because we weren't good enough at kicking the assholes out of our community", and I wanted to scream. That's not how this works! That's *never* been how this works! Ethical or unethical, fluffy or dark, bottom or top, *the censors don't care*! As far as they're concerned, we are *all* rapists!)
Twitter does seem popular, for reasons that I've never really been able to grok myself. (I like to make relatively long posts, with plenty of embedded links to provide context.) I've been seeing a fair few people on Mastodon, which I've poked at but never really posted on. The amount of Pillowfort I'm seeing is currently only slightly worrisome (I Cannot handle a site as fundamentally hostile to archiving as Pillowfort is), but I suspect that's mostly because Tumblr is still limping along: when it finally collapses, Pillowfort is currently a major contender for who will be picking up the slack.
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I've been surprised by how *much* I have to say, personally. I've been holding that bug post in reserve for like three weeks, waiting until there was a lull (so that I could spread my posts out more evenly).
And while Dreamwidth doesn't *always* deliver social interaction, there have been many mornings where my usual morning video-game time was shortened or absent because I ended up writing a Dreamwidth comment/post instead. (Indeed, this is happening right now.) Many of them have been in response to comments on my posts, so maybe there's some "if you build it, they will come" going on there.
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I've been doing the occasional wikiwalk, wandering through friends-of-friends to see if I can find more people to add. It's a minefield of SJ Discourse out there, but then so is Tumblr, and I did find
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†Quite a few of them are currently flying under the radar by sticking to text, audio, and [images that are only sexual when viewed through kink goggles].