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

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!

Re: New day, new place

[zenolalia]

DW (and anything with functional blocking and community filters) is designed to give you a lot more control over your spaces.

That definitely helps cut down on discourse of the viral hellscape that tumblr created, but it's not without its own risks.

Basically, I'm really hoping that shifting back to this style of fandom interaction (forums were my first, and then livejournal) doesn't come along with the worst fucking thing ever invented: communities dedicated to absolutely pissing all over art/fics/ships people don't like. I don't mind a good bit of wank and a hatefest, but there was this persistent habit of re-posting other peoples art and fics and OC profiles and just being unbelievably cruel about it, because they "can't see it anyway."

Except someone always tells them.

It was very proto-blackpill.

We'll see, though. Fandom has evolved a lot in the last decade, so maybe that won't be quite so popular anymore.