1) It's been the kind of week where I drag out the Christmas writing playlist and start outlining Christmas fic BECAUSE. What do you mean it is only September? Bah. I don't care
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Yeah, I mean … as a platform for image/gif sharing and for signal boosting things you really love, it's definitely got advantages over livejournal/dreamwidth. It does have a tendency to concentrate attention on people who are already well-known because those are the things that get reblogged over and over, and that's a bit unfortunate. That's an internet-wide problem atm though between google's page rank and facebook's top post algorithms. But the thing that bothers me most is that "hey we all like and reblog the same things" is just not a substantive way to interact with people.
Fandom has always been really good at forming communities, formally or informally, you know? (And also of busting them up, but that's a different story, lol.) This is so different. And I wonder if it's maybe because fandom is so much bigger and more general now and so it's just never going to look like the days of mailing lists or forums or journalling platforms again.
but I'm online to interact with others, not to sit and look and surf and lurk.
Ha - I have my days when I'd rather just sit and lurk, honestly, but yeah. I totally know what you mean.
Fandom has always been really good at forming communities, formally or informally, you know? (And also of busting them up, but that's a different story, lol.) This is so different. And I wonder if it's maybe because fandom is so much bigger and more general now and so it's just never going to look like the days of mailing lists or forums or journalling platforms again.
but I'm online to interact with others, not to sit and look and surf and lurk.
Ha - I have my days when I'd rather just sit and lurk, honestly, but yeah. I totally know what you mean.
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