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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-10-01 06:57 pm

[ SECRET POST #2464 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2464 ⌋

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Re: Slightly Off-Toppic: Tumblr help? (I'd ask on Tumblr but I don't have enough followers)

(Anonymous) 2013-10-02 11:04 am (UTC)(link)
Tumblr is more like your personal scrapbook of pictures, comments, thoughts and opinions than a discussion platform (like message boards) or a blogging service like livejournal, where discussion is pretty easy. So I sympathise with your problem. But I think if you just expect different things out of tumblr, you'll enjoy it more. Browse it for cool things related to your fandom, reblog, make graphics or just post your thoughts as blog posts, if that's more your thing. If others dig it and decide to follow you, cool, if not, you can just keep scrapbooking on your own.

There will be discussions but they won't ever be like on livejournal. In some ways I find discussions on tumblr can be like random people shouting into the void, sometimes alone, with others echoing it (reblogs, likes) and sometimes together (reblogs with disagreeing comments). Sometimes good conversations can emerge from all that despite the platform's limitations but more often than not, that's not the case.

Of course, there are still message boards and stuff out there for different fandoms, even though a lot of cool fandomy types abandoned those years ago. I think the problem is that fandoms used to gather more consistently around the same bonfires, like livejournal, and nowadays people seem to be doing their own thing in these little collectives on tumblr or whatever. I'm sort of a "big name blog" in my own little tumblr circle, but that doesn't mean I'm Cassandra Claire of my fandom - it just means I get reblogged a little bit more than others (my fandom is pretty tiny overall).