Pillowfort
Pillowfort is an American social media networking service and microblogging website. The website was launched in 2017 and is currently in open beta. As of October 2020, the site had more than 100,000 users. The website is popular among fandoms, the LGBT community, and adult content creators. Features. Pillowfort was created to combine features from platforms such as Livejournal, Twitter, and Tumblr. Registered users of the website may create, reblog, and comment on posts, as well as follow individual users or "community" groups. Posts may contain text, images, or embedded elements. History. Pillowfort was founded by Julia Baritz, who  began advertising the project with a business partner on Tumblr in 2015. An Indiegogo campaign for the site successfully reached its goal in 2016, allowing for the first wave of beta users to register in 2017. Further funds were raised through a Kickstarter campaign in 2018. After the social media platform Tumblr changed its content policy in 2018, greatly limiting mature works, a large number of users migrated to Pillowfort, which had more accepting terms regarding mature content and a greater ability to filter said content. Registrations had to be temporarily closed as the site received a tenfold increase in  traffic and over 8,000 new registration requests, causing infrastructural instability. In 2019, Pillowfort migrated from the .io domain to .social due to the site's hosting of sexual content, which is disallowed by the .io registrar. Due to allowing adult content, Paypal ended their business relationship with Pillowfort. When free public registration was opened on 25 January 2021, new users found and exploited security-related bugs on the website. Pillowfort was taken offline for three months while the staff fixed the vulnerabilities which were uncovered, and reopened without free public registration. As of January 2022, new users can still register  by being invited by an existing member or purchasing a registration key. The developers aim to add an automated rolling waitlist early 2022.