Baritz also has turned to crowdfunding campaigns. Until then, Pillowfort keeps the lights on by charging new users a onetime $5 sign-up fee. She’s currently crowdsourcing suggestions from users about what features they want and are willing to pay for. She and the team are about six months away, she estimates, from launching that pay functionality. Premium accounts is the same business model Baritz is planning for Pillowfort. Aside from her and Smith, the site is run by volunteers. “We’re not making a whole ton of money but we're not losing money and we have enough people who really value what we are trying to do from a business ethics standpoint that they will support us,” says Paolucci. With the paid subscriptions, you get more Dreamwidth tokens, which can be used to access perks like user icons or the ability to rename blogs. Like LiveJournal did when it first launched, Dreamwidth makes money by charging users for premium accounts, at annual rates of $35 or $50. Baritz says she fell in love with LiveJournal when she was in middle school, and longed for a way to combine its creative, independent ethos with more modern features.īoth Pillowfort and Dreamwidth embrace a business model that charges users directly and aims for relatively small profits-a radical idea in a web dominated by ad revenue and data sales. It is meant to look like Tumblr but harken back to the original LiveJournal era, a simpler time on the web, when people could create small, cohesive, and specific communities without worrying too much about arbitrary censorship or ads. Pillowfort's terms of service also currently prohibit posts that target or harass other users, which some bloggers may crave in a new community. It improves on Tumblr, in some bloggers’ opinion, by offering nimble privacy features-like allowing you to make certain posts private to certain followers, while leaving other posts public-and focusing on customization. Pillowfort, on the other hand, looks a lot like Tumblr, but it can’t yet handle the traffic that comes along with popularity.īaritz created Pillowfort in 2016 to be exactly what disaffected Tumblr bloggers are now in search of: an open-minded site that can host images and videos allows reblogging, commenting, and community building encourages a strong artistic bent and doesn’t censor NSFW content. “Even those who have their primary hangout elsewhere use us as a permanent redirect to wherever they're socializing most, because after `10 years, people are beginning to trust that we mean it when we say we're planning to be around for the long haul.” When beloved services are shut down or change their terms, people can lose their communities and work. “We are definitely thinking of this as an opportunity for users who are fleeing Tumblr to discover our philosophy and business ethics,” she adds, “but there is also a certain level of people who are used to Tumblr and Tumblr's features, may not be what they are looking for.”ĭreamwidth has been “a good lifeboat service for a lot of people,” Paolucci says-a landing place for people who have had to leave other platforms for some reason. Paolucci understands that Dreamwidth may not be right for all Tumblr exiles. Tumblr's new ban, however, focuses on visuals, like NSFW photos, video, and GIFs the company says written content like erotica is still allowed.
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Instead, Dreamwidth is a text-based community, full of everything from fanfic and erotica to you name it. We can’t afford to offer that same kind of unlimited, endless image hosting.” “Unlimited image hosting is one of those features that people have gotten used to that are VC-subsidized on most websites. GIFs should work, Paolucci says, but users get only 500 megabytes of image hosting on their accounts, at least for right now. Dreamwidth can barely handle images, as some Tumblr exiles have noted on Twitter, and currently has no option to upload video. But what it gains in stability, it lacks in new features.
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