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You know, I would, even now, except. I slowed down on PF when they were like “oh our definition of unacceptable pornography is that we’ll know it when we see it”, which like, literally everyone who’s been on the Internet more than about a damn week is like wow that’s a bad call, and then I stopped altogether when they had some TOS update that kind of crystallized that, but I’d go back and post the spiders story just for old time’s sake. But.
I literally can’t remember my login. Like… blank space in my brain where it should be, staring at the login window like. welp.
I’m taking that as a sign.
Sorry, PF. You were a great idea, and I tried, but then you decided to be weirdly super Anti about Problematic Content (we don’t need hard-and-fast rules, we’ll just rely on torches and pitchforks whenever anyone gets upset! this always works and is never weaponized against the marginalized among us!) and my in-between-X no-generation-name ass is too old and tired for that kind of bullshit. Enjoy y’all’s drama. I genuinely would have leapt in with both feet ten years ago but I have Seen Too Much and Don’t Have The Time anymore.
I am not even being an ass, I am whole-hearted and genuine in this. I know a community is what you make it and listen I have toiled in those mines and I know from bitter experience, it doesn’t fucking matter how hard you work to build a community, if you are not ironclad about best practices for your TOS there will be bad actors who come in and mean-spiritedly co-opt the whole thing and you will have absolutely nothing you can do about it (I mean, hell, they’ll do it anyway, they do it to everything eventually, it’s just that you’ve got to have a TOS that can withstand it, and PF does not), and everything turns to ashes and a whole bunch of people get hurt and if you’re lucky you get to save the decade or so of work you put into it as little isolated files on your computer minus all hyperlinked content and images and minus all the people you loved so much, and if you’re unlucky it’s just all gone and that’s that, thanks Warriors for Innocence or whatfuckingever it is this time.
They’re going to come for you, and I’m sorry, the path you’ve chosen isn’t going to save you.
I am genuinely sorry. But I am also cutting my losses.
I’ve archived everything on Dreamwidth. It’s not sexy and nobody uses it much but it’s also survived and has a solid and transparent TOS that’s withstood bad-faith challenges repeatedly already.
(It wasn’t that long ago I went through my DW friendslist and manually deleted the read permissions of all the LJ friends it auto-imported who went silent ten years ago now, and I literally cried at how many of them I have never found again anywhere else on the Internet. I’m sorry, Maggie, I love you, Julie, I miss you, Hannah, I don’t know if you survived, Meg, I’ll never know what happened to you but you were so important to me for so long, and I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.)
[Tumblr crosspost of me answering an anonymous ask containing the title text]
You know, I would, even now, except. I slowed down on PF when they were like “oh our definition of unacceptable pornography is that we’ll know it when we see it”, which like, literally everyone who’s been on the Internet more than about a damn week is like wow that’s a bad call, and then I stopped altogether when they had some TOS update that kind of crystallized that, but I’d go back and post the spiders story just for old time’s sake. But.
I literally can’t remember my login. Like… blank space in my brain where it should be, staring at the login window like. welp.
I’m taking that as a sign.
Sorry, PF. You were a great idea, and I tried, but then you decided to be weirdly super Anti about Problematic Content (we don’t need hard-and-fast rules, we’ll just rely on torches and pitchforks whenever anyone gets upset! this always works and is never weaponized against the marginalized among us!) and my in-between-X no-generation-name ass is too old and tired for that kind of bullshit. Enjoy y’all’s drama. I genuinely would have leapt in with both feet ten years ago but I have Seen Too Much and Don’t Have The Time anymore.
I am not even being an ass, I am whole-hearted and genuine in this. I know a community is what you make it and listen I have toiled in those mines and I know from bitter experience, it doesn’t fucking matter how hard you work to build a community, if you are not ironclad about best practices for your TOS there will be bad actors who come in and mean-spiritedly co-opt the whole thing and you will have absolutely nothing you can do about it (I mean, hell, they’ll do it anyway, they do it to everything eventually, it’s just that you’ve got to have a TOS that can withstand it, and PF does not), and everything turns to ashes and a whole bunch of people get hurt and if you’re lucky you get to save the decade or so of work you put into it as little isolated files on your computer minus all hyperlinked content and images and minus all the people you loved so much, and if you’re unlucky it’s just all gone and that’s that, thanks Warriors for Innocence or whatfuckingever it is this time.
They’re going to come for you, and I’m sorry, the path you’ve chosen isn’t going to save you.
I am genuinely sorry. But I am also cutting my losses.
I’ve archived everything on Dreamwidth. It’s not sexy and nobody uses it much but it’s also survived and has a solid and transparent TOS that’s withstood bad-faith challenges repeatedly already.
(It wasn’t that long ago I went through my DW friendslist and manually deleted the read permissions of all the LJ friends it auto-imported who went silent ten years ago now, and I literally cried at how many of them I have never found again anywhere else on the Internet. I’m sorry, Maggie, I love you, Julie, I miss you, Hannah, I don’t know if you survived, Meg, I’ll never know what happened to you but you were so important to me for so long, and I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.)
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