Hi, LJ/DW! I am here to say a contentious thing!

Jul 28, 2012 15:43

First off -- Livejournal, I love you, I am back. I am back and I have a WHOLE NEW DEFAULT ICON! because nothing says THINGS HAVE CHANGED like changing your default LJ icon, I don't care how much time has passed ( Read more... )

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mars_daydream July 28 2012, 21:00:37 UTC
SO cool, that you can write about fandom. Dream job. Hooray!

I was really active in fandom back in LJ days and now I'm new to tumblr, and I can't wrap my head around how people use it to socialize. The fact that you can't directly start a conversation after an "ask"? Or that it's difficult to directly reply to something? It seems like the platform can be bent into a social network but it's really tricky, like it's not quite what tumblr is meant to be. Maybe I don't yet "get it" but I also feel that it's more a chorus of "hey look at this" rather than actual *discussion*?

I use twitter, LJ, AO3, all the rest... I'm not feeling tumblr as a place for deep discussion, more like superficial fun. (Maybe because I'm new? Maybe I'm now old and slow to catch on?)

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glitterati July 28 2012, 21:18:56 UTC
Aja my darling you have been missed ( ... )

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pir8fancier July 29 2012, 15:09:28 UTC
WORD. WORD. WORD.

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cherith July 31 2012, 15:59:28 UTC
Well said.

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quaedam July 28 2012, 23:00:44 UTC
I like seeing you on my flist again!

There's a lot I loved about LJ that I miss on Tumblr--mostly the back and forth discussion that used to happen in the comments section.

And I'm not crazy about Tumblr's way of grinding up all the users and posts into one big stream of information--it's got that quality of so many web services these days, where instead of providing the users with tools to use as they will, with which they can make unique spaces of their own, they mine the users for scraps of content and turn it all into one single product.

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foxxcub July 28 2012, 23:26:07 UTC
BUT I LIKE IT WHEN YOU AND IFRIT SHRIEK AT EACH OTHER. D:

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weatherfront July 29 2012, 00:38:30 UTC
Unfortunately, that is just something that is going to happen on every platform, even ones that are not as crappy as tumblr

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cherrybina July 29 2012, 00:51:41 UTC
AJA AND IFRIT SHRIEKING AT EACH OTHER IS A CROSS-PLATFORM UNIVERSAL CONSTANT. LIKE GRAVITY.

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foxxcub July 29 2012, 00:54:24 UTC
IMAGINE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF IFRIT HAD A TWITTER ACCOUNT.

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noeon July 29 2012, 00:19:21 UTC
*hugs*

I don't tumble for anything much, although it does seen like it gives a lot of mass meanie voice to the h8ters, not just the lurkers. But that's a casual opinion on circumstantial evidence.

Fandom does need some sort of online salon, where you can be yourself and link your accounts if you want to, not if you don't / let different fandoms have different streams (don't cross the streams!). idek what it would look like (a Victorian gentleman's club where you can fall asleep with your newspaper over your face and no one will bother you, while others are samba dancing at the bar) but it would be nice. Everyone has a TARDIS? <3

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