Pillowfort Is Closing

[OP] BrenBarn | 16 hours ago

Another lo-fi site trying to create friendly community without corporate greed bites the dust, in this case apparently due to burnout on the part of the main person running it. I hadn't used Pillowfort much but did browse and explore some blogs on there and it seemed like a positive community. Always sad to see stuff like this happen.

solomonb | 14 hours ago

what is a 'lo-fi site'?

red-iron-pine | 8 hours ago

old school. not quite geocities but harkening back to an older age

DiabloD3 | 16 hours ago

I wonder if why people rejected the site is because there seems to be no way tos scroll the page?

LeoPanthera | 16 hours ago

You have to accept the cookie notice. If your user agent hides the notice there's probably no way to do that.

tdeck | 16 hours ago

Seems kind of cool actually. Unfortunate that this is the way I heard about it.

trueno | 15 hours ago

i encountered it once. it felt like tumblr though i kept running into weird furry cartoon porn.

im sure this site has a lot of valuable media on it, woulda been cool if they just handed a backup over to internet archives.

bitwize | 14 hours ago

> it felt like tumblr though i kept running into weird furry cartoon porn.

so... tumblr at its peak?

nkrisc | 13 hours ago

Yeah that’s the problem with sites like these. They just turn into furry porn and drive everyone else away.

MelonArmiger | 10 hours ago

Too many people who can't pick up on how uncomfortable they're making everyone, not enough moderation.

It's a serious problem - the cost is stupendous for anyone without big business money, and if you don't get it right early... It's like the tide.

LoganDark | 10 hours ago

I think the problem is it being shown to people who don't want it, not it existing on the platform at all.

iamnothere | 8 hours ago

The problem is that some people go searching for content that they disapprove of, then complain loudly for engagement. They find it even if the “algorithm” doesn’t show them the content that they want. This then creates trolls who farm their own engagement off of the offended.

This particular site was doomed because it tried to control those people while failing to explicitly identify the problem. They mistook it for a one-sided political issue, then they found themselves with a bunch of politically aligned people who were (shock) still arguing about what content was “appropriate,” and still provoking each other to farm engagement.

BizarroLand | 3 hours ago

I feel like furry porn is just the bright coloration used to drive off predators.

Once you get past that it's always just a bunch of weirdos hanging out trying to make each other laugh.

wormius | 14 minutes ago

"There is a market for everything, man There is a market for pet psychologists, n** There is a market for twisted shit fetish videos For nipple rings, for river dancing, for chocolate covered roaches But you can't find one for (furry porn)?"

-Immortal Technique (paraphrased)

VCFundedGenYer | 8 hours ago

Tumblr died when they banned NSFW content.

whateveracct | 2 hours ago

tumblr is very much alive lol

JacobAsmuth | 15 hours ago

What's pillowfort?

egypturnash | 14 hours ago

Tumblr clone.

altmanaltman | 15 hours ago

https://www.vice.com/en/article/buzzy-new-social-media-site-...

It was like AI slop pre AI. Great traction with the nsfw stuff but failed to capitalize on it.

solyin | 14 hours ago

Lol which sota AI in 2026 doesn't know what XSS is and would write code that bad?

maeln | 13 hours ago

it was in 2021

quietbritishjim | 13 hours ago

They were referring to the comment they were replying to, which claimed that the original code was written (by humans) as poorly as AI does today. But AI today wouldn't write bugs that basic.

neuroticnews25 | 12 hours ago

There's actually no proof or claim of XSS vulnerability in this bizarre article. Username url confused with special url is a common bug, I've seen it "exploited" on facebook.

solyin | 4 hours ago

The exploit I read in the vice.com article is the attackers username or a post could contain "<img src=/signout>" and be unescaped and automatically sign users that loaded that page out. If you don't want to call that an XSS, what would you like to call that?

Dylan16807 | 4 hours ago

> OWASP considers the term cross-site scripting to be a misnomer. It initially was an attack that was used for breaching data across sites, but gradually started to include other forms of data injection attacks.[2]

Oh.

andrewstuart | 15 hours ago

What is pillow fort?

emaro | 14 hours ago

You find the information on their homepage under "what is pillowfort"?

> Pillowfort.social is a multipurpose blogging platform. You can use Pillowfort to connect with other fans of your favorite books or tv shows, show off artwork or writing, get tips and advice on your hobbies, and much more. We're independently funded by our users and we strive to protect user privacy, give our users maximum control over the reach of their content, and protect our users from bigotry & harassment.

tanseydavid | 6 hours ago

Cannot help but think of the Dogfort image meme.

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/88320-dog-fort

F3nd0 | 15 hours ago

At first I thought this was a Fediverse instance, but it seems like it was its own isolated thing? Shame.

ninalanyon | 12 hours ago

Pillowfort sounds like it would have been worth a look but this is the first time I've heard of it.

Is there a directory of social media sites? I feel that a lot of people would benefit from being able to more easily find one that suited them better than Facebook, et al.