[ SECRET POST #5914 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5914 ⌋

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


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[The Martian (film)]



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[Arknights]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 11 secrets from Secret Submission Post #846.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big (and unfortunately unreadable downscaled) ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Theoretically, this site should be the sequel to Live Journal. It has the same design, same focus on community, ability to post fics and long text...

... but, it says a lot about the current era of the internet when the most used sites for fandom congregations are: Either designed solely for images in mind, with a terrible reply system (Tumblr); or one of only images, deliberately few words, no nuance, and designed to enrage people (Twitter). That shit is straight out of Fahrenheit 451, with the exception the last site wants anger, but only so they can monetize it.

Discord is decent, but as someone else mentioned, it's more chitchatty, and less to have written stuff to be preserved for a community in public. Reddit works for that whole "long written stuff" thing, but given how communities overlap, how the upvote and downvote system made everything worse, AND the fact it's nearly 100% male dominated, it's a deluge of memes and toxic fandom. Facebook is... Facebook.

We have a community of fandom roleplayers here, but given not as many of us write in our digital journals anymore (I personally use a physical journal, in my case), and most of the fandom are on the other platforms mentioned, I don't know if we could even have those days back. To this day, I still miss forums, and they were honestly my favorite way of interacting with a community.

Honestly, I think I'm looking at the past with rose-tinted glasses. The bigger a community is, the more drama that will exist, and both sites I revile are simply the easier way to share images and on-point data... but as someone else noted, focused more on the "me," and not so much to interact.

[(Anonymous)]

Twitter is primarily a word-based site.

The reason that Tumblr and Twitter out-competed LJ/Dreamwidth is because they had much, much, much more powerful sharing and discovery features.

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[(Anonymous)]

Reblogging and re-tweeting, you mean? I don't know how hard would it be to apply something similar in DW, since the system is from an era where you only found stuff through links your friends actively put in their journals. Unfortunately, that I can understand, and for the RP community here, it's a sore point that we're isolated and don't get as much new blood as we'd want.

But, I believe the algorithm leading Twitter is what's caused everything terrible about fandom to intensify to the point you're better off deleting your account. 400 letters is not a good way to debate politics. Not to mention an algorithm would go against Dreamwidth's principles of privacy.

[(Anonymous)]

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