I'm willing to relocate my journal "homebase" to IJ because (a) it's not like I can't still read LJ ... and (b) it's LJ fandom that's meaningful to me -- take off the "LJ" and they're still fandom, no matter where. There are already fans and fansites in non-LJ places. We cope.
So there may be misunderstandings there (as if further complication is needed).
I did move more fully into fandom than ever before once I found LJ, and for that I will always be grateful. But now I know we won't lose each other if we don't want to.
And over at IJ, where dozens of new accounts are going up and people are rebuilding flists -- with some new members now -- there's a kind of cool energy. Reshuffling the cards could be good in some ways, too. I'm trying to be positive about the possibilities (like this moving Fanarchive along even faster :-)
As I understood it, back when Strikethrough hit at the end of May, there was talk about incorporating more than just a fic archive into the fanarchive project. They haven't been putting much up publicly of late, so it's hard to say if that's being incorporated or even still in consideration, but it was my impression that it was.
If it still is being considered, I have a feeling that anything we see coming out of that project will be the product of the kind of deliberate thinking and forward-planning that we need, to be sure that the next place we invest in building our home in won't be a place we have to leave in a month or a year or even the five to six years that fandom has lived on LJ.
Basically, my concern is that any mass exodus be conducted with deliberation, and that we not all just jump to another place without confidence. I'd like my move away from LJ to be a move to something I have faith can be permanent, because I'm honestly pretty allergic to that level of upheaval. I don't yet see any concrete reason to trust IJ any more than LJ. I want to wait to move until I have seen a new service built with our community's needs in mind, from the foundation on up, at minimum where legal issues are concerned.
I don't want to have to move more than once. Moving once is going to break me enough as it is. For me, LJ is a whole lot more than fandom. Moving my primary online home off LJ means becoming in some deep way homeless, because I don't expect to ever find again an online community where I could so seemlessly integrate so many different parts of my life. Leaving LJ for me means having to lose a little bit of the wholeness of my way of operating in the world. So I want to be sure,as much as it's possible to be sure, that wherever I land next isn't going to hurt me quite this badly down the line.
But as to fanarchive? I'm confused now.
People ask, and the answers have been like this one: "... this isn't actually a similar project; I think they want to archive our fanworks ... whereas we want a fancommunity."
So there may be misunderstandings there (as if further complication is needed).
I did move more fully into fandom than ever before once I found LJ, and for that I will always be grateful. But now I know we won't lose each other if we don't want to.
And over at IJ, where dozens of new accounts are going up and people are rebuilding flists -- with some new members now -- there's a kind of cool energy. Reshuffling the cards could be good in some ways, too. I'm trying to be positive about the possibilities (like this moving Fanarchive along even faster :-)
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If it still is being considered, I have a feeling that anything we see coming out of that project will be the product of the kind of deliberate thinking and forward-planning that we need, to be sure that the next place we invest in building our home in won't be a place we have to leave in a month or a year or even the five to six years that fandom has lived on LJ.
Basically, my concern is that any mass exodus be conducted with deliberation, and that we not all just jump to another place without confidence. I'd like my move away from LJ to be a move to something I have faith can be permanent, because I'm honestly pretty allergic to that level of upheaval. I don't yet see any concrete reason to trust IJ any more than LJ. I want to wait to move until I have seen a new service built with our community's needs in mind, from the foundation on up, at minimum where legal issues are concerned.
I don't want to have to move more than once. Moving once is going to break me enough as it is. For me, LJ is a whole lot more than fandom. Moving my primary online home off LJ means becoming in some deep way homeless, because I don't expect to ever find again an online community where I could so seemlessly integrate so many different parts of my life. Leaving LJ for me means having to lose a little bit of the wholeness of my way of operating in the world. So I want to be sure,as much as it's possible to be sure, that wherever I land next isn't going to hurt me quite this badly down the line.
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