stupid elno

[tielan]

Sure, the-app-formerly-known-as-Twitter was a dumpster fire, but there were so many things in that dumpster, and not all of them were on fire!

Anyway, right now it's a mad scramble of people going here, there, and everywhere right now, and I sincerely dislike it all.

Threads isn't navigable by communities - not really. I want to see the people I've followed not what the algorithm thinks I should see.

Mastodon is complicated and maybe it's just on the servers where I've landed but it feels very political real-world. Maybe that's just the accounts/servers I was following at the start. Which is okay, sometimes, but also not necessarily how I want to interact all the time. Also, although several people I know have made accounts on it, nobody I knew from before is actually *using* it.

I kind of miss activity on DW - yes, there's some lovely little community on here, but I don't really feel like I can participate in most of it because I'm not terribly fannish anymore except on my specific topics - which I suspect has gotten me blackballed in several areas. It's just me and the people who post about their RL stuff and comment on my RL stuff. (Thanks, my peeps, I loves youse.)

Also, where else am I going to find the broad range of topics and interests that is so much of my internet existence? A nice broad variety of thingage! (Thinkage? Thingengage?)

Stupid elno.

Comments

[aome]

I miss the heyday of LJ/DW, too.

[tielan]

I mean, it was mad crazy busy, and also a little Wild West, but also so much fun.

Or maybe that's just how I remember it?

[kore]

It was super busy! And the most interesting, complex, fun conversations would just fall into your lap. And some comments sections got huge and were almost like parties. And some went on for days. Tons of fandom meta, fic, episode watchalongs, discussions.