Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 09:37 am
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.
Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 03:44 am (UTC)
I miss the heyday of LJ/DW, too.
Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 04:36 am (UTC)
I really, really miss early-mid LJ, and DW after that too. (So many people fled LJ for Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, badmouthing DW all along the way, it bummed me out.)
Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 04:59 am (UTC)
I forgot to finish my PROFOUND THOUGHT, lol. I'm not as tight with my twitter circle as with DW, but I kept in touch there with a lot of people no longer on DW and who weren't on LJ/DW at all (imagine!!). I used it a LOT during the first year of the pandemic for health news, and during the terrible smoke seasons too. It was great for breaking news -- I followed so many reporters and news stations, and felt like I got a practically blow-by-blow account of January 6th. (Which really upset -- terrified -- me, but oh well....) Now all that information, archived history, is going to be gone, along with groups like Black Twitter where people got a lot of support (disability Twitter, long covid Twitter, &c &c)....and he's just....destroying it. Just because he's rich from VERY ill gotten gains Just because he's filthy rich and white and he can. It's just. So much I hate about capitalism.

I like hearing about friends' IRL stuff (I love your quilts! and chooks!) but often feel like my own life is so dull/unpleasant (do people really want to hear about us medicating th eterminally ill cat like four times a day) and my life is so small and I don't really do anything, blah, blah, I have nothing to offer on that front really.
Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 05:13 am (UTC)
I find there's only so much interaction in capable of keeping up with on a daily basis and I would probably be even worse at interacting on DW if it was busier than it is now. I tend to be pretty monofandomish myself so aside from the fandom community I'm a part of, everything else is basically RL stuff too.

Honestly I think the deepest blow was when LJ splintered way back when... I don't think we ever really recovered.
Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 05:26 am (UTC)
Everything was great on LJ until the Russians took over.
Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 02:11 pm (UTC)
Yeah I'm so bummed about it - that was where the VAST majority of my networking/audience building happened for the professional writing career. It's still possible to manage it via FB groups and newsletters, but it's going to be a challenge for sure with my debut finally coming out next year.

And yeah, as far as fannish communities, I really miss Livejournal more than anything else. Le sigh.
Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 10:33 pm (UTC)
Stupid elno indeed.
Monday, July 31st, 2023 02:23 pm (UTC)
"there were so many things in that dumpster, and not all of them were on fire!"
I've never even actually used twitter but I love this metaphor. xD

As fannish as I am (quite a lot), I honestly enjoy writing, reading and commenting on RL posts - it feels like catching up with neighbors, which is something that I don't actually get to do in person and I really miss it, so dw it is. :)