cosmic-llin:

hhertzof:

madenthusiasms:

drinkingcocoa-tpp:

thursdayj:

What we need is a new platform that has both private and public posting options and handles text, images, and videos. And then we need a mass migration. MeWe has some potential. Anyone have any other ideas??

I’m trying to think if there’s any way in which LiveJournal doesn’t meet your requirements.  I greatly prefer LJ and I never left.  I resisted tumblr until I had to get one for TPP,  and I have never acclimatized.  But then, by tumblr standards, I am quite old.

I’ve never entirely understood why Live Journal or its cousin Dreamwidth fell out of favor.  Okay, it’s *much* easier to post images on tumblr.  But it’s far, far easier to hold a conversation on Live Journal.  I never left it either, and neither have my fandoms; both Holmes and Doctor Who have active newsletters aggregating all the LJ content for/from the fans.

I don’t post as much there anymore because it’s been so quiet, but it seems to be picking up again a little bit. I’ve even hit skip?=20 some days on my flists. I do miss the conversations.

It makes me sad how quiet LJ/DW are now, and it also makes me sad that, although people ARE still posting, I only have time and energy for so much fannish-leaning social media, and it usually ends up being Tumblr. I do think that, although it’s very possible to have conversations and make friends on Tumblr, the mechanisms for that were simpler on LJ/DW.

The thing is, I miss the conversations on LJ/DW, but Tumblr works so much better for the way I like to engage with fandom and fannish media. Like, I love to obsess over the little details and small cute moments in my shows, and gifsets with commentary and text posts are perfect for that. On LJ/DW, in my own experience anyway, you could pretty much only have that level of detailed discussion and have people actually care/join in if you were in a big fandom that was currently airing, or if most of your flist/circle was into the exact same stuff as you and happened to be around to talk about it near the time of posting.

Like, I miss LJ/DW but a photoset or rambling meta post about a less-favoured character from an older show would barely get noticed there, whereas on Tumblr because of how tagging and reblogging works, the people who are interested will likely see the post and get involved in the discussion even if you don’t move in the same circles. That’s valuable to me.

Also, aside from the question of engaging with other fans, because I’m deeply obsessed with my main fandom (Star Trek) I’m constantly looking for new ways to experience it, other than constantly rewatching, which takes up a lot of time and isn’t always practical. When I was a kid I collected magazines and merchandise, bought tie-in books, etc. Tumblr is great for me because it’s the perfect way to constantly be experiencing the thing(s) I love in small chunks that let me indulge my obsession and remember my favourite bits while still having time for other stuff.

So yeah I guess what I’m saying is, LJ/DW are great platforms with a lot going for them, but so is Tumblr. Would be nice if we could have the best aspects of both in one place!

I actually like Tumblr because of its conversation mechanic.

See, I have a lot of trouble initiating conversations. Because of the focus on reblogging, I can more or less fully participate in Tumblr life without ever having to bring myself to create a post. Everywhere else, I’m just a commenter. Here, I’m a blogger. I never thought I would be able to have a blog before Tumblr, and I still don’t think I could have it elsewhere. (Not any elsewhere I’ve seen so far, anyway.)

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