[ SECRET POST #2855 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2855 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Kinda hoping the come up with something new like LJ (that enough people use to build a community - DW is a close substitute but the community isn't here either). There's ello or whatever it is, but I feel like it'll be closer to facebook, and certainly not fandomy.

[diet_poison]

Yeah, it needs to be something new. DW is basically a better LJ, but unfortunately when LJ really started dying, tumblr was the shiny new toy and nobody really came to DW. I would like to see a completely new platform that's got at least something of a journal-based interface so we can bring back those communities and such that we had before.

[(Anonymous)]

I was pretty surprised at that, tbh. Wasn't DW already up and running well before LJ imploded? I will never understand why so many people chose a massively fandom-unfriendly platform over one that was basically created FOR fandom.

Sheep mentality, I guess.

[(Anonymous)]

DA - I think some of it is that tumblr also has a lot of people who came to fandom through Facebook and twitter, so they never had the concept of community and interaction to begin with.

Otherwise, I don't know either.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

That's very possible. There definitely seems to be a lot of Tumblr/Twitter overlap especially.

It's just always struck me as odd because in my case/fandom everyone originally 'met' on LJ and seemed to migrate en masse to Tumblr rather than DW. It's not as though it's an especially Tumblr-centric fandom either in the sense that it's e.g. heavily graphics/image orientated. I think it was just "the popular thing" and as soon as few of the bigger fans moved there, so did everyone else.

[diet_poison]

It was, but I think it was in early stages and still invite-only? (Or am I thinking of Ao3)

[(Anonymous)]

It started out invite-only. They made the same mistake Journal Fen did and assumed that it was the invite-only model that had made LJ such a success, when really it didn't become popular with fandom until they got rid of the invite-only structure in 2003.

[(Anonymous)]

Wasn't DW's decision to use invite codes in the beginning more to do with managing the amount of users, though? I seem to remember the public line at least was that they didn't want to overwhelm their resources by having everyone swamp the site at once?

I thought the draw to fandom was that it wasn't going to do the dumb things LJ did, e.g. Strikethrough and many of the PR-disaster privacy issues. LJ at the time seemed actively trying to deter fandom-related activity while DW was trying to foster it.

[(Anonymous)]

I might be remembering this wrong, but... wasn't LJ becoming a really hostile place when Tumbler came along? A whole lot of bullying and such -- beyond the usual drama -- MetaFandom closing down and that MetaFandomAnonymous replacing it for example.

Does anyone else remember that? Or am alone in thinking Tumbler became the new safe place because it kept fandom activity focused on the pretty and surface-y?

LJ is remarkably like LJ.

[(Anonymous)]

Just saying.

Re: LJ is remarkably like LJ.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but there's no fandom on LJ anymore. Most comms are barely active, or if they are it's just icon posts and stuff, and I have a large flist but there's hardly ever fandom stuff to be found on it.

Re: LJ is remarkably like LJ.

[(Anonymous)]

My fandom comms are mostly people trying to sell stuff.