Ugh. PEOPLE

[fera_festiva]

Like much of fandom, I've drifted away from LJ/DW in recent months and years, in favour of various combinations of Twitter, Tumblr, anonmemes and AO3.

I'm feeling especially grouchy about that today because I've ended up caught up in a duststorm of wank, and it's put me in a bad mood.

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[forest_rose]

I, too, wish we could go back to the old days of LJ. It still feels like my safe online space, but it's just so quiet these days. xx

[fera_festiva]

Likewise. It was always a place I felt I could talk about fandom stuff or whatever and not be judged for it. I miss the form of discussion too (nested comments seem like a really good way of doing conversations). And the fact that a conversation might go on for several days or even weeks.

[epithalamium]

The gifset is all there for me, but I've been looking at some of the photos I've reblogged and I'm seeing the same message.

I really don't care much about the whole censorship thing, since most of the things I look at are work-safe anyway, but I never thought of it in terms of possibility that people would go back to LJ/DW. I'm still hoping things would change back to the good old days of easy-to-track conversations. :P

[fera_festiva]

I wonder if the censorship is region-based. Other people I know in the UK can see some of the pictures but not all, but it's the same for me at work or at home so... I don't know.

The conversation aspect is exactly what makes me miss LJ. I feel like the tumblr model (i.e. reblog and add your own comments and maybe the original poster will see it and respond but maybe not) lends itself well to being misunderstood, or being passive-aggressive, in a kind of "Well, I didn't mean for you to see that" way. I really miss being able to have straightfoward conversations. I mean, there was always wank here too, but it wasn'tt necessarily the default!

[epithalamium]

The drama in Tumblr can get pretty intense--add to that the anon hate. There was a lot of wank here in LJ, but I don't remember it ever going to 'Kill yourself' levels.

I also miss seeing other people's comments on a post and maybe replying to those as well. In Tumblr it's mostly just you and another person talking. Jumping in on the convo is kind of hard to do.

[fera_festiva]

Totally. I don't know what's the cause and what's the effect, but the move to Tumblr seems to have come along with an upswing in what I've heard called "social justice warrior" behaviour. In other words, bullying and shouting down and dogpiling and telling people to die, under the guise of fighting for a cause. It's hostile and nasty and I don't like it.

Totally agree about the commenting as well. I find that while actually adding people/following/etc doesn't have the politics/meaning it used to over here (no "Can I friend you?"), which I do like in lots of ways, it's ironically much harder to actually make friends.

[minnow_53]

I miss the old days of LJ too. Recently, a hacked email account sent me back to LJ in some detail, so I've been wallowing in nostalgia. The great LJ days really WERE that good. :(

[fera_festiva]

*hug* I often think of you when I think of the old days of LJ. I've recently been wallowing too, re-reading old entries and comments and remembering those long conversations we all used to have. Maybe I'm remembering things as being rosier than they were, but.