I do hear of fandom shifting to Discord, which is more communicative again and I like it for that, but I feel like it's more useful once you have already found your crowd than to actually enter new fandoms or ships. Like, I'm in a number of discord servers, but for the most part I'm hanging out there with the same people I would be talking to one-on-one anyway, so I dunno how useful it as a "wider" fandom experience, you know?
Like, everyone who knows everyone (or a selected few) hangs out in places you literally have to be invited to know about. It's not like old comms in LJ or in DW or other forum-based comms. It's not very inclusive, and I do feel there's nothing left to... Aaah...
To record?
Take LJ (or DW) - if we have a convo, it's easy enough to find it, and it might be visible for all kinds of folks who are in the same comm. It allows ppl to have a sneak peek at the ones' involved in the convo, and thus new friendships can be forged.
I kind of miss that, tbh, no matter how communicative Discord is ):
Discord does actually record the messages, it has a pretty effective search engine which lets you search back for months if you remember the right keywords. so it's not wholly useless for re-reading an old convo. but of course nothing compared to how readable it was in DW/LJ comms, or how easily you could go back and read a conversation about a specific topic which happened months ago
And of course, you can't read until you've already joined the Discord (and I'm not sure if you can read anything prior to your joining) so it doesn't help you determine whether you want to join a server at all - so you have another reason besides acquiring links to play it safe and stick to servers which your friends are already in.
Altogether I feel like this makes Discord fandom very cliquey.
It sucks that LJ changed so much. I miss the good old days when everything was busy and exciting and FUN... Thanks to certain things happening I've basically stopped participating much in fandom stuff but I'm mostly on Discord. I reblog stuff on tumblr from time to time though... and post art there and on pillowfort... but there's nothing interesting going on. lol And yes. Tumblr SUCKS @$$!
I'm on Discord, would you like to babble with me <3 LD has my number-thingie for Discord, and ye gods, do I miss you too ;_____;
I'm trying to figure out how to use pillowfort, lol, but it be hard, and I miss fandom times, when it was fun, as well. Sigh. I mean. I will try to create more content, and see what happens?
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I do hear of fandom shifting to Discord, which is more communicative again and I like it for that, but I feel like it's more useful once you have already found your crowd than to actually enter new fandoms or ships. Like, I'm in a number of discord servers, but for the most part I'm hanging out there with the same people I would be talking to one-on-one anyway, so I dunno how useful it as a "wider" fandom experience, you know?
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Like, everyone who knows everyone (or a selected few) hangs out in places you literally have to be invited to know about. It's not like old comms in LJ or in DW or other forum-based comms. It's not very inclusive, and I do feel there's nothing left to... Aaah...
To record?
Take LJ (or DW) - if we have a convo, it's easy enough to find it, and it might be visible for all kinds of folks who are in the same comm. It allows ppl to have a sneak peek at the ones' involved in the convo, and thus new friendships can be forged.
I kind of miss that, tbh, no matter how communicative Discord is ):
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And of course, you can't read until you've already joined the Discord (and I'm not sure if you can read anything prior to your joining) so it doesn't help you determine whether you want to join a server at all - so you have another reason besides acquiring links to play it safe and stick to servers which your friends are already in.
Altogether I feel like this makes Discord fandom very cliquey.
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I don't like cliques, never did anyone any good ):
My ultimate goal is literally to revive any kind of forum-based arena for the good old gang. I miss us, all of us <3
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I MISS YOU! D:
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I'm on Discord, would you like to babble with me <3 LD has my number-thingie for Discord, and ye gods, do I miss you too ;_____;
I'm trying to figure out how to use pillowfort, lol, but it be hard, and I miss fandom times, when it was fun, as well. Sigh. I mean. I will try to create more content, and see what happens?
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