Tumblr is a good place to find pictures of all sorts of weird things, which is nice.
I haven't figured out how exactly people interact on Tumblr, though. They just reblog or something, and reposting a picture isn't really reblogging to me anyway, even if you add a six-word comment. It's like Facebook reposting, only with "dirty" pictures allowed.
Either way, I want more than that.
Truthfully, I haven't figured out Dreamwidth, either. I can follow people, but it does me no good, because I never see their stuff, get no notifications, have no feed page like I have here. I can comment if someone points me in the direction of a good post, but that's about it.
So, I basically switched over to DW. I subscribe on DW to everyone I follow who crossposts on DW; I have LJ email notifications set up for the LJ people who decided not to mirror/go to DW (which is totally ok with me!) so I know when they post, and then I just read my DW reading page. The experience is similar to me, though DW has historically broken my browser somewhat less.
For a while I couldn't take your polls (see aforementioned LJ's tendency to break my browser) but I even saved them in bookmarks when I wasn't caught up on SPN because I always enjoy them!
I can spend a lot of time on Tumblr without feeling like I’m in fandom as I know it
:nods: I can spend a lot of time reblogging fanart on tumblr, but I never feel involved and talking to people the same way that I do with LJ, it feels so isolating on tumblr
I can spend a lot of time on Tumblr without feeling like I’m in fandom as I know it
*nodnodnod* Tumblr can feel awfully isolating--like, I'm here, and fandom is here, too, but it *feels* like it's consistently *over there* somewhere. I can post and reblog as much as I like, but the actual *community* is perpetually just over the next rise.
It continually surprises me that something so poorly-designed for fandom has been so thoroughly embraced by it. But maybe I just have an antiquated idea of "fandom" as an activity/forum/community/etc. *hands*
This comment sums up a lot of my feelings about Tumblr and makes some good points. I'm thinking of writing a meta about LJ/DW vs Tumblr - would it be okay if I quoted from your comment if I do?
Thank you for starting this thread. I found it searching for lj vs tumblr. I've been on lj, or one of its derivatives (eg, greatestjournal RIP) for about 8 years. I just discovered tumblr while searching for a medical issue, and was amazed that all this frantic activity was taking place around things I'm interested in, and I'd been oblivious to it
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I love all the pictures, but I'm still struggling with how if at all to have fannish conversations. I think you can have an interaction, and some people do use it to post meta, but reactions quickly get lost, and I think that's very sad. I wish we could have both--LJ/DW and tumblr--but most people don't seem to be doing that.
I think the point about the mobile phones is very important, though I find Tumblr's mobile interface very annoying.
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I haven't figured out how exactly people interact on Tumblr, though. They just reblog or something, and reposting a picture isn't really reblogging to me anyway, even if you add a six-word comment. It's like Facebook reposting, only with "dirty" pictures allowed.
Either way, I want more than that.
Truthfully, I haven't figured out Dreamwidth, either. I can follow people, but it does me no good, because I never see their stuff, get no notifications, have no feed page like I have here. I can comment if someone points me in the direction of a good post, but that's about it.
For fandom, I like livejournal.
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:nods: I can spend a lot of time reblogging fanart on tumblr, but I never feel involved and talking to people the same way that I do with LJ, it feels so isolating on tumblr
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*nodnodnod* Tumblr can feel awfully isolating--like, I'm here, and fandom is here, too, but it *feels* like it's consistently *over there* somewhere. I can post and reblog as much as I like, but the actual *community* is perpetually just over the next rise.
It continually surprises me that something so poorly-designed for fandom has been so thoroughly embraced by it. But maybe I just have an antiquated idea of "fandom" as an activity/forum/community/etc. *hands*
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I think the point about the mobile phones is very important, though I find Tumblr's mobile interface very annoying.
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