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FS is about where I get all my online interaction (I'm a lurker anywhere else, and in fandom I just read and post fic).

Where do you usually get some more conversation/interaction?

I've always heard of discord, but it felt like a subterranean meeting ground to another realm that I never knew about (much like that jazz club in the puddle on Cow & Chicken). What's that like/your experience there?

When I have the time and energy, I'm on Tumblr and the forums on Flightrising and some different fandom Facebook groups. All of those are more or less active. I'm the one who isn't particularly active right now. My active level on each comes and goes.

I'm just gonna cry about how much I miss The AV Club. As soon as I finished watching something, I used to run to that website for the comment discussions. Then AVC got bought by Univison and then GO Media, and it's withered into clickbait and puff pieces. (I know most of the commenters migrated to The Avocado, but I decided to try limiting the amount of time I spend online, so I haven't made an account there.)

I was also on Television Without Pity a lot as a teen, and I miss the forums but I'm glad they got nuked so there aren't any records of my shitty hot takes. 😅

ah damn! I was also on Television Without Pity a lot as a teen, and I miss the forums but I'm glad they got nuked so there aren't any records of my shitty hot takes. 😅

Looking back on what people used to say/think about shows was exactly what I wanted to go do lol

Yeah, AV Club was fun. I loved having conversations there.

I know there's a message board that was set up by some of the people who used to chat there, so if you want to look at that and see if that's worth joining, here's the link:

https://tolerabilityindex.freeforums.net/

I need to remember to stop in there more often.

I'm primarily on Twitter nowadays, although it's not for any specific fandom, more a general-purpose nerdy community. There's a lot of really decent people on there. I think that it's quite good for drawing together a bunch of people from different backgrounds, a lot of the people I follow are from communities that I was never really a part of myself (former AV Club posters, former The Toast posters, former Best Show fandom community people, etc). But you do have to be really aggressive about controlling your timeline for it not to be terrible - there is a lot of ambient stupidity and I'm pretty active about being careful about who I follow, muting words, turning off retweets, etc.

Discord? Depends on the server. Some servers are more active than others. Many are just branches of already existing comms. I've had good and bad experiences, but that's been the case with chatrooms in the past.

Either here or Instagram, but it's really hard having discussions on Instagram.

I'm in a small discord that focuses on our mutual OTP. It's only about 20 members, and only half of them are consistently active, which for me is a positive.

It's basically just a series of chat rooms, each one theoretically dedicated to a different subtopic (shippy, general, NSFW, multi-ship, misc, and so on).

It's not really the way I like to communicate best. I'm more inward and deliberate. I want to think about my thoughts for a while and then post a couple of paragraphs (or more) expressing my ideas, and hopefully get some comments and reply to those comments and so on. Whereas Discord is like having a group conversation. You're just saying whatever springs to mind, and trying to keep up.

I don't think I would enjoy large discords at all, because I feel like the conversation would always move on before I had the chance to contribute to it. I don't like how quickly the thing you want to comment on gets snowed under and everybody's on to talking about something else.

That said, I do feel more connected and engaged in a community now that I'm in this discord. I think the trick is finding (or making) a discord that suits you. I'm not sure how you could go about doing that, but I guess there'd be no shame in just asking around.

huh. Yeah, I would imagine being in a large chat would make it difficult not only to keep track of the conversation but also formulate anything in time to respond before everyone has moved on.

I never really considered Discord because it seemed like a way to end up in drama (and I just enjoy my current cruise speed of fandom/internet that has no real interaction, aside from this forum). But I also like the idea of being in a fannish (or other) space that has some pleasant conversation. I'll look into it.

MY LJ/DW. Twitter's for politics, I've mostly given up on Tumblr, Instagram is...weird, and FB is for my family.

I am also a lurker. Some weeks ago I decided to dip into a discord server for my main fandom. It is the biggest server for it, but only a handful of people really participate. I only ever said a thing or two when I thought I had something relevant to contribute. The discussions are most of the time very fleeting so I don't bother with them. There's also a language barrier problem for me as English isn't my first language, so I struggle to get the right words when talking to other members.

I've been on a few fandom discords. They're a fun place to chat-some are more active than others (there's a couple for shows I watch that are kinda quiet right now 'cause the seasons have ended), and for the ones that are more active, sometimes it can be hard to keep up with the constant conversation, depending on how busy they are (there's a general fanfic one I've been to that's kinda like this).

But they can be fun places for fandoms to gather, yeah, and there's usually spots for all kinds of fandom discussion, from the general stuff to a place specifically for those who want spoilers to fanfic and prompts and so on and so forth. Just depends on the fandom in question and what they most like to chat about.

For non-Discord fandom chat, I'm basically hanging out at SpoilerTV and the Previously TV boards. Lots of good TV-related discussion at those places, for anyone who's in TV fandoms, but Previously TV also has sections to discuss movies and books and music and so forth, too, for anyone who's interested in that stuff as well. And SpoilerTV has movie news and reviews, too, and every so often SpoilerTV will have people apply to join the staff and write reviews for any of the shows or movies that get coverage there. I've done that, it's quite fun :).

There's also TV Line, but the comment sections there tend to be a little different from how discussions go in other fandom spaces.

Nowhere :( It used to be Tumblr for me but I got fed up with the drama. I tried Instagram during the beginning of COVID for one of my fannish interests and it didn't work out for me, I lasted a week. Wish there was somewhere to go.

I'm on mastodon, and a handful of facebook communities. I'm trying to keep my current facebook extremely lean.

What's the mastodon experience like

High learning curve but it's easy to get a mostly wank-free timeline.

but is it easy to get a high-quality timeline?

I don't know what "quality" means to you, but I've been able to find nice people who give me connections to the articles I like to read.

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