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.

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[aome]

I miss the heyday of LJ/DW, too.

[kore]

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.)

[kore]

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.

[velithya]

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.

[timespirt]

Everything was great on LJ until the Russians took over.

[hiddencait]

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.

[kass]

Stupid elno indeed.

[facethestrange]

"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. :)