December Blogging Meme Topic #10:

[ajodasso]

What's been the change about online interaction and/or communities that [fill-in-the-blank verb] you the most?
-newredshoesThe shift to greater brevity of posts (Twitter, Tumblr, etc.) and the relative decline of comment-culture have been the two changes to which it's taken me the longest to adapt. I miss the huge, sprawling comment-thread discussions that

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[ajodasso]

It's possible to Tweet and Tumble substantively, but it is a challenge. My Tumblr is very frequently accused of being a "classy" blog in a world where it's far more fashionable to be considered "trash," but it's got a more than respectable number of followers in spite of the class-factor ;)

I have an Ello account, but I have yet to really do anything with it.

[alltoseek]

I know long-time LJ users who haven't been disturbed by any of the numerous things LJ has done to annoy/disrupt much of its userbase; but as a user who has witnessed LJ several times do things that just demonstrates its contempt for at least certain aspects of its userbase, I have no intention of ever coming back (posting or paying for an account - I'm happy to read others' posts and comment on them). I'm not interested in getting burnt again.

I find Dreamwidth to have all the same functionality that LJ has for supporting community and conversation; and does it for free, without ads, and without making changes that routinely piss off a large number of their users. So in all, a better place that I'm happy to support.

I agree that the internet generation loves moving to new shiny things, and it is very hard to draw them back, even after you've polished yourself back up.

[ajodasso]

I had a DW account once upon a time, and I kept faithfully importing my LJ entries to it, but nobody seemed to be reading there, so I just killed it and cut back around the time I decided I was also starting a Tumblr.