Otherkin on Turtleseed

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There seems to be a significant migration of otherkin to a new service: TurtleSeed.  I had never heard of this service before today, but from what I've been able to determine it is a service similar to Twitter which allows people to make microblog posts of 140 characters or less. TurtleSeed is unique, however, in that it is built from the ground up with an eye towards privacy, eliminating trolls, encouraging positivity, and even the ability to designate certain words as triggers in one's user settings. By default, turtleseed posts expire after 3 days, for privacy reasons, though one has the ability to change that setting on an individual level.

There are already a wide variety of otherkin "clans" on TurtleSeed.  These are roughly equivalent to facebook groups or livejournal communities, organizing around a particular discussion topic.  Some of these are public, while others require approval to join.  Some are permanent, while others have a set duration they will be in existence.  And some even allow all posts to them to be made anonymously.  One of these clans, /otherkinchat, already boasts ~328 members despite just having been created on August 20, 2014.  And it's more active than most otherkin groups I've seen, on any medium.

The otherkin clans of which I am currently aware are:

• http://www.turtleseed.com/ts/otherkinchat


• http://www.turtleseed.com/ts/Otherkin


• http://www.turtleseed.com/ts/fictionkin


• http://www.turtleseed.com/ts/hetaliakin


• http://www.turtleseed.com/ts/robotkin


• http://www.turtleseed.com/ts/pokekin


• http://www.turtleseed.com/ts/felinekin


• http://www.turtleseed.com/ts/spookykin


• http://www.turtleseed.com/ts/faekin


• http://www.turtleseed.com/ts/aquatickin


• http://www.turtleseed.com/ts/HqFictionkin


• http://www.turtleseed.com/ts/tgfictionkin


• http://www.turtleseed.com/ts/vocaloidfictionkin


• http://www.turtleseed.com/ts/shslfictionkin


• http://www.turtleseed.com/ts/ygofictionkin


• http://www.turtleseed.com/ts/drfictionkin


• http://www.turtleseed.com/ts/forfictionkin


• http://www.turtleseed.com/ts/AngelkinChat


• http://www.turtleseed.com/ts/angelkin


• http://www.turtleseed.com/ts/dragonkin


• http://www.turtleseed.com/ts/Therians

The communities there do seem to have been influenced, IMO, more by tumblr otherkin culture than the culture of the wider community, but the activity level definitely makes it something to keep an eye on.