[ SECRET POST #5827 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5827 ⌋

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Old secrets/comments thread.

[(Anonymous)]

Is it okay if I make one?

Social media platforms?

[(Anonymous)]

Yesterday's talk on "which social media platforms do you use for fandom" had some detailed replies that made me wonder what's it like for everyone.

Mastodon and Pillowfort are 100% unknown beasts to me. Tiktok is yet another beast for me - apparently kids use that for fandom too. (Man I remember when Amino and Wattpad were the "mysterious websites/apps kids have been using for fandom" ... just how fast the night changes.) I have been on Discord before but never for fandom per se (only for gaming with a small group of friends, having classes surprisingly, and a translation group I was a part of). Sometimes I look through "Discord community directories" and some sound good but randomly joining what seems like a tight-knit group of 15 fans of a thing doesn't sound like the best idea, and it's weird to auntie me that there would be 1000 communities with 15 fans of a thing instead of 10 communities with 1500 fans.
It's a different logic from... how we used to fandom? (ugh I feel like I am not making much sense here.) But the logic has been "different" for a while, since I grew up on forums and then LJ (which was different but at least there were communities) and I still don't quite get using like Tumblr or Twitter for making fandom friends. How do people even interact? Am I just that awkward? (answer: yes) (joke aside I do feel like there's an element I can't explain of "high school cliques" that doesn't work for ND me but LJ wasn't TOO different in that sense.) In the past decade I only made "friends" or "acquaintances" in Facebook communities, Lang-8 and oldschool forums. That's it. I never made a single long-lasting memorable acquaintance on Tumblr or Twitter, maybe because they feel a lot more impersonal and number ("engagement")-driven (or maybe because of the HS clique aspect to it) and how others do it is mysterious to me.

And so I have been wondering how everyone else does the fandom thing as of late.

For me, since those platforms (Tumblr/Twitter) aren't good for interacting it's:
1) squeeing in my locked Twitter account (some people I have never spoken to follow me and sometimes like what I reblog)
2) posting long-ass metas / headcanons / translations / snapshots on Tumblr and tagging them (some random strangers like that stuff sometimes)
3) well, commenting here I guess? And on reddit and YT as well.
4) the occasional fanfiction on AO3 or fanart on dA and website-making and so on.
basically.

Please forgive me for any typos and mispellings I am groggy and tired

Re: Social media platforms?

[(Anonymous)]

Twitter's the only social media platform I really feel I understand and am good at. It makes sense to me and I've built up good networks of interesting people there.

Outside of that, I post here and on a couple similar places. Then Tumblr and Tiktok, I'm on them but it's more passive. Especially with Tiktok, where I just look at the videos that they put on my feed and nothing else. I've started poking around at Reddit a little more but I really don't like the community or the structure of it.

Re: Social media platforms?

[(Anonymous)]

Twitter: was originally a space for me to stay connected to some fandom friends when our forum was dying out and Facebook was saturated with all my relatives and people I knew IRL suddenly friend requesting me. I tried getting into a couple fandoms via Twitter pre/during/post pandemic and I don't think I'm doing it right.
I literally have 1 friend left and even that friend doesn't seem to want to talk to me anymore.
Tumblr: I was enthused to participate in fandom when I joined but it's been a bust.
Here: I enjoy my anon status

I'm terrible at talking to people and interacting with them.

Re: SA

[(Anonymous)]

I leave random anon comments on fics I love on AO3.

Re: Social media platforms?

[tabaqui]

I don't get most of those platforms for fandom interaction, either. I'm used to the LJ style, where you posted something and people commented and you could do a lot of back-and-forth in a thread or multiple threads.

Tumblr is impossible to comment on unless you constantly monitor who reblogs your thing, and the others....eh. TikTock annoys me, twitter is for news and politics (for me), and YT seems to have the most insane comments ever.

I cannot do Discord at all - every time I have tried to make an account, it just...won't, so I've given up.

Re: Social media platforms?

[(Anonymous)]

I was the anon who posted that thread because I'm always curious as to how it works for others too. The only site I'm active is really here (this comm, specifically) and whenever I find my log ins, Discord, and one is for IRL friends and another for online but not fandom specific. I see on AO3 sometimes writers will create a discord comm, which sounds cool, but then I feel like knowing how fandom can be... I'd rather not be involved lol. Mind you, I grew up on really chill archives, browsing through LJ, so a chill and fun fandom experience is what I'm still looking for.

Twitter to me is too connected to RL. Reddit I don't use for fandom at all. Wattpad has all the youth fic with nice cover art lol, Mastodon was trying to be a thing, and Pillow fort I've been hesitant to use (is anybody there?). i also never did Tumblr, but man it seems like there was community there (albeit drama filled...).

I really like the forum/LJ type of space. I'd love to start a comm for people into MC/Self Insert FICS (create a sort of archive complete with my own recs), but I don't have the time to give to that fandom activity. Sigh. I do miss just squeeing over characters and fic. That's honestly the extent of my own fandom participation as I've gotten older.