tumbl-fail

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I've tried three times. Is it the seizure-inducing gifs? The inability to track conversations? I don't know, but my fanosaur brain just can'tI know Tumblr is wear it's at, and am glad that many of you are having a good time there and want you to continue. I would love, though, if you're writing something or otherwise arting, an LJ post just linking

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[gramarye1971]

It's the lack of conversation-threading that stalls me out cold, mostly. Even on forum postings, there was usually a way to keep track of conversations all in a single location. Tumblr's too spread out for my liking, and it contributes to the more damaging echo-chamber aspects.

That, and the inability to filter/lock posts and do other internal maintenance without resorting to mainly third-party applications (Tumblr Savior, Missing E, and the like) makes me want to run screaming. It's hard enough to follow Twitter some days; Tumblr just seems like the difficult parts writ large.

Then again, I do admit that I come from an age where the lines between online and RL were drawn a lot more sharply, and Tumblr seems to be part of the trend that blurs that quite a lot. *bitter old fandom hag*

bitter hags united

[penfold_x]

Then again, I do admit that I come from an age where the lines between online and RL were drawn a lot more sharply, and Tumblr seems to be part of the trend that blurs that quite a lot.

Preach. I can't get used to it--I know it's not possible to be entirely anonymous on the web, but I still want put up a bit of a fight. Also, I don't think I'm being inauthentic, I just don't see any conflict in tailoring my self-presentation, the same way I have a professional persona at work, a daughter/sister persona with family, etc.

Also, filters so important. When I'm going for my fandom fix, I don't want to wade through someone's political posts, sports rah-rah, in-jokes I'm not a part of, etc.

RE: bitter hags united

[xanify]

+1 to all of this

[lorata]

Most of my LJ peeps are pretty diligent with the cross-posting, which is actually nice because then LJ is like ... a highlight reel! I'm for sure not going anywhere, the last meme I did had like ... 1 response on tumblr and something like 20 LJ comments (that I haven't even finished responding to XD).

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I'm for sure not going anywhere,

GOOOOOOOOOD

[seta_suzume]

highlight reel! <- that seems like a very apt description of how it works out sometimes!

[seta_suzume]

I just like tumblr for looking at things (I follow a lot of artists mainly). LJ is my internet 'home' and I imagine it will remain that way.

While I may post art to my tumblr page first (because of laziness mostly), I do post probably 99% of the art here afterward! (the other 1% is questionable scribbles...that...actually might get posted on lj too, just without any particularly haste ^^;)

[penfold_x]

Good! I loves me all the doodles, esp Jack and Mags :D

[seta_suzume]

^_^

[graculus]

I see Tumblr as an adjunct, not a replacement - because it's so very visual and utterly crap for discussion of any kind.

[kawuli]

all my fic comes here and most of the rest of original things too. what doesn't is....usually short and silly. If you get very curious/worried you're missing out it usually is here: https://kawuli.tumblr.com/tagged/mo-rambles and that tag usually has few to no gifs/weird discourse/whatever.

Unfortunately actual-crossposting either way is wonky but I do try for important stuff.

[penfold_x]

Ah, thank you :)