[ SECRET POST #2879 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2879 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I feel this way sometimes. I probably wouldn't use tumblr if all my e-friends weren't there. It's hard to have conversations and there's no privacy, and I'd be just fine if I never saw another superwholock gif again for the rest of my life.

I'm pretty tired of the attitude some of my other friends have that LJ fandom was somehow superior; nah, we had our tiresome memes and drama too, and the platform was shit in a number of ways.

I have a feeling I'll feel just as grumpy if another mass platform migration happens, and there'll be this segment of fans going on about how magical and problem-free Tumblr fandom was compared to New Platform.

I feel this way about Ao3 vs. FFN, too.

[(Anonymous)]

I totally agree with you that LJ was never the blissful Nirvana some people make it out to be, but I think that belief ties back to what you said about privacy and conversations.

It was so much easier to avoid all the bullshit on LJ if you wanted to without even trying too hard. Be it filters or flocked posts or the fact that your friends' feed wasn't all their friends' friends' friends' feed too...

Depending on the fandom you really could exist quite happily on LJ without running into any wank at all and thus convince yourself it didn't exist. It's not so easy to avoid on Tumblr, and that perpetuates the idea that fandom is so much worse over there when it's really not. It's just more visible.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

I think the lack of privacy has actually helped my fandom a fair bit. It was small and cliquey and you really had to be in with the right people to have any kind of discussions. If you ticked the wrong person off, you'd get mass defriended pretty fast, and there was a lot of pointed filtering-out of people just to talk behind their back. Things feel a lot more open now, and I feel like I can post about not liking something or preferring x part of canon over y without starting this weird behind-doors shunning.

That's just in my case though! I think the "more visible" is definitely true also; when there's wank or embarrassing behavior, everyone can see it.

Re: ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

It's absolutely true that it works both ways. That sort of behaviour happened within cliques in larger fandoms too, but the more casual or not-well-connected fan would have no idea and would imagine everything was rainbows and kittens.

For better or for worse, if wank kicks off in your fandom on Tumblr, it's visible to everyone whether they want to see it/involve themselves or not, and even if the original post gets deleted, most of the time someone's reblogged it for posterity.

So yep, the openness is certainly a double-edged sword. I'll admit I preferred LJ as a platform purely because it made conversation and back-and-forth discussion easier, but for its diehards to say it didn't have its own problems compared to Tumblr just isn't true, as your experiences attest.

I think, like most things, it depends on which set of issues you can tolerate most.

[(Anonymous)]

I like lj because I can theoretically chat to people. I still don't really get how to do that on tumblr. It's all so public...

[(Anonymous)]

Fan Mail. Fan Mail is seriously how to do it. It's completely private and there's no character limit. You can only use it with mutual follows, though.

[(Anonymous)]

And sometimes Tumblr eats it so you never see it.

Or at least that's my experience.

[(Anonymous)]

No, you can definitely use it with people you follow, and people who follow you, I just believe there's a time period before you can send it. I've gotten fan mail from a few people I don't follow (but who follow me).