Well then

[zenolalia]

I've closed my tabs and logged out of tumblr for what I suppose will be the last time.

I spent a decade on that site. It was my news, my social life, and my fandom hub.

Probably, I gave more of myself to it than I should have, really. But in return, I got so many things that I can't imagine finding anywhere else.

I don't know what I feel.

But, it is the dawn of a new day.


(The joke: it's the middle of the night in my time zone)

Comments

[anarfea]

Welcome over here. We haven't really interacted but I've followed your tumblr blog for some time and have enjoyed reading your POV. I hope you will continue to post over here.

[teethntongue]

It definitely is something worth mourning, and I can't even imagine. I was really a lurker, but even I'm not sure how to feel about it all.

I have to say though that your blog definitely meant a lot to me. Your perspective has always been so grounding and helpful. I don't know how Web 3.0 is going to go, but I hope to have the opportunity to keep hearing from you.

[cassini]

[i'm gonna miss that trash heap. there were good times and bad times, and heck, the sudden disruption to the substandard-service-as-usual certainly got me brave enough to jump into the shallow end of the fandom pool afresh, say hello to people who had too big an audience and make sure i got some off-tumblr contact details for some good friends. there's always loss to subcultures when platforms evict us like this, so i'm doing my best to look for the little gains ]

[elendraug]

I've really appreciated your perspective as well, AND I would be thrilled to see Homestuck meta for sure

[flowerqueer]

ooh i feel this in my soul, i have my dreamwidth all set up now and my tumblr queue is ready to spit out my "where else to find me" post one last time and i guess this is where i live now? gonna take some getting used to for sure, but i'm excited to see where this (and other future platforms) takes us

[yvannairie]

Ngl the bitterness this morning was pretty overwhelming. Tumblr's pace of posting was so good at making me get things done 200-300 words at a time, and "quality" was a nice surprise, not an expectation. Idk how I'm gonna stop myself from getting writer's blocked by my perfectionism.

[lissaze]

It’s honestly pretty devastating… I’ll probably keep using tumblr, if only out of habit or maybe to see its decline but I’m gonna miss seeing you (and like half the people I follow) on my dash if I do stay.
But I guess now’s the time for me to get used to dreamwidth and hopefully it's a better place than what tumblr became.

[capribornio]

Going from having to deal with constant discourse to no discourse at all is a pretty weird transition. Definitely looking forward to Homestuck meta if that's what you decide to post.

[archaeocoyote]

It's definitely a very weird feeling, I was on tumblr for almost 8 years, and don't really intend to fully leave until they actually shut it down for good, but the sense of finality to it is palpable. I never really gelled with it as a platform, but I will be sad to see parts of it go, especially how easy it made it to find interesting folks, like yourself!

[full_course_identity]

It's a new day indeed! This is such a weird time. I am... very uncertain of the DW format. I'm so used to Tumblr, dA, and Facebook. Those have been my social media platforms pretty much forever.

But at the same time... that's kind of the exciting thing here, isn't it? Exploring a new website, with a new type content. I'm going to continue to monitor alternatives--honestly, I'm also dropping off Facebook and dA if I can, so I'm about to have big holes in my browsing activities--but I think I can make this my central hub.

... although a big problem here is that, uh, my fandom is only active among teenage antis on tumblr. So. Gotta fix that! If I have to chase people down and cram this musical down their throats, I mcfuckin will.

Oh! I've seen you talk about Homestuck before and in these comments, but, what other fandoms are you in/could get into?

New day, new place

[championshawke]

I really feel you there. Tumblr was the piece of social media I'd used the most consistently and for the longest, and it was the first place that really introduced me to fandom. I'm going to miss it, and dreamwidth is so different that it's really going to take some getting used to.

But, on the other hand, maybe that difference will be good. I took a pretty huge break from fandom because I was tired of the constant discourse, and it seems like dreamwidth both has a chiller community and isn't set up to facilitate viral discourse the way tumblr was. As interesting as the discourse could be at times, I think it will be good for me to get away from it.

So here's to new and discourse-free beginnings!

[kari_izumi]

Well, I'm glad you're over here now. I found your blog six months ago or so, but for some odd reason I was blocked from reblogging anything (a result of when the site went catawumpus some time ago and started autoblocking people who had never interacted before). Your posts about the Tumblr Purge were excellent BTW.

And yeah, count me as someone that does not want any other GAFF-inspired offshoots. That's the one bit of good that came from open-style Tumblr blogging: nipping that shit right in the bud.