[ SECRET POST #5489 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5489 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP, but hell yeah I miss LJ's heyday. IMO it was the perfect balance of social and personal, public and private.

There are aspects of tumblr I love a lot. It's really, really good at generating memes and jokes (I unironically love tumblr humor and memes don't at me), and it's a very good platform for getting your fanworks in front of a broader audience even when you're not a BNF. Plus, obviously, it's a decent way of collecting and curating fannish content you enjoy. But there are also a lot of things I strongly dislike about tumblr, and a lot of ways that I feel like it's had a negative effect on fandom.

I'm not even on twitter, so I can't speak to that corner of fandom, but from what I know of twitter, honestly, fannish twitter sounds like all my least favorite parts of fandom, distilled.

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[(Anonymous)]

right?? I even miss standalone shrines and webrings but LJ at least still had the content with an easier to find and archive system than a standalone with awful coding. I'll happily be a fandom old who misses the LJ era, forever mad that fandom didn't migrate to DW with the rpers.

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[pantswarrior]

Same, plus there's the whole thing where it's next to impossible to have a lengthy/detailed conversation with anyone on Twitter or Tumblr without annoying other users (since the conversation will keep showing up for anyone following you). Since I rather enjoy the occasional long, in-depth meta threads about my lovely dead fandom that few others care about, and wish I could have them more frequently, I am not cut out for those platforms. I want to talk, and be talked at, without fear that I'm boring everyone around me. (Here and LJ, you have the choice to click on the comments to a post, or even expand the thread.)

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[(Anonymous)]

It was a lot easier to make friends on lj and mailing lists for me, and I didn't feel like I had to walk on eggs every moment. Plus, the trolls and genuine assholes could be and were ejected from moderated communities.

Twitter fandom sounds like Hell Online to me.

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[(Anonymous)]

Twitter fandom requires you to essentially moderate your own community. It gives you the tools to do that (by blocking / muting / unfollowing people) but it definitely puts the burden on the user.

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[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but that isn't as effective as the banhammer for communicating to teenagers when they're acting like assholes.

[tabaqui]

All of this! LJ in its hey-day was a blast. I met *so* many people, had so many conversations, wrote like a fiend and read until my eyes crossed (metaphorically). Awesome!

[arashinoookami]

I miss LJ too! Most of the people from the main group I was in made a group on Facebook, but it's just not the same.

Twitter is a pain in the arse, but I'm enjoying my current fandom on Tumblr. Everyone is really nice, and I've made a lot of friends on there.