[ SECRET POST #3954 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3954 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You with your logic. Don't try to logic people who use Tumblr. If they were good at logic it wouldn't be the shithole that it is to begin with. I unfollowed people because I didn't want to see their shit and eventually I mostly stopped using Tumblr altogether because it's just not worth the negativity.

And yet bizarrely nobody's come up with the next big thing to replace Tumblr and nobody's taken the even bigger step of GASP going back to LiveJournal. It still exists, you know.

[(Anonymous)]

Because Tumblr is a much more powerful social platform than Livejournal and it provides functionality that Livejournal doesn't provide. And no one has come up with real technological innovations that beat out Tumblr yet, is the reason that people haven't moved on to the next big thing.

Like, in all seriousness, why do you think that people moved from Livejournal to Tumblr in the first place? It's not like a witch cast a fucking spell that made everyone forget Livejournal existed. People chose to move to Tumblr at a certain point - what do you think the reasons for that actually were?

[(Anonymous)]

It's not because Tumblr is inherently superior to LJ, it's because LJ made a bunch of poorly received decisions that negatively impacted fandom really quickly.

[(Anonymous)]

If it's just a question of decisions by LJ administration, why did fandom move to Tumblr instead of an LJ-alike website like Dreamwidth or that other one whose name I forget?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Dreamwidth's image-posting options really suck for one. It's not a good form for microblogging, and their HTML layout is unreadable on mobile.

[(Anonymous)]

IIRC, when a lot of people were jumping ship from LJ, Dreamwidth was invite-only with a few open registration periods. That kind of puts a damper on mass migration.

[(Anonymous)]

Yup, pretty much. I lucked out on getting a DW-account, but most of my friends didn't so I followed them to Tumblr.

[(Anonymous)]

Tumblr is not remotely more powerful than LJ, are you joking? It has like half the functionality.

In all seriousness, they left because it's easier to reblog than actually make a human connection the way we are now - people actually speaking to each other instead of just reblogging and adding a snarky tag if they're really intrepid.

[(Anonymous)]

Providing the ability to reblog and tag is actually a prime example of what I have in mind when I talk about functionality.

Whether or not you like that mode of engagement personally, it is clearly a powerful functionality to have, and it is a way of engaging that people obviously like. And if you're going to talk about social media platforms, I think you have to seriously engage with the choices that people actually make about how they want to interact with each other. Because that's what actually drives peoples' choices IMO.

well back in mY daY

[(Anonymous)]

did you really just do the thing about how "people used to talk to each other" regarding LIVE JOURNAL??

Re: well back in mY daY

[(Anonymous)]

I had many many conversations on LJ, so why not?

Re: well back in mY daY

[(Anonymous)]

Er, people did talk to each other there. Just like people do here. Am I missing something?

[(Anonymous)]

The two anons above me obviously disagree, but I do agree with you that text-based communication is more engaging, and I feel like there's more of a connection with people, than there is with reblogging. I like the way it's simple and easy to have discussions, and to be able to see the whole discussion thread in one place.

Tumblr handles the visual media very well, and that seems to be the bigger part of its functionality. But it leaves me cold. Which is why I spend my fandom time here, in DW.

[(Anonymous)]

as one of the anons above, I want to be clear that I definitely *don't* disagree with this post. I personally find text-based communication more engaging as well. It's a totally valid preference.

But I don't think that preference is anywhere close to universal - if anything, I think it is probably a distinct minority. And if we're talking about why people choose between various social media platforms, and why people adopt Tumblr over Livejournal, I think we have to take that into account. So, to me, the answer to why people use Tumblr instead of going back to Livejournal is pretty clear: because Tumblr works better for them. Even if it doesn't necessarily do so for me.

[(Anonymous)]

Basically this.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Eh, I didn't kill my tumblr (because url-jacking is a thing) but I'm pretty much just on Dreamwidth, Mastodon, and my own blog these days. Definitely more relaxing.