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.
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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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.
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Honestly I think the deepest blow was when LJ splintered way back when... I don't think we ever really recovered.
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And yeah, as far as fannish communities, I really miss Livejournal more than anything else. Le sigh.
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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. :)