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
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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?)
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.
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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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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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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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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