Yeah, I'm mostly active on tumblr, but basically only to reblog things. I rarely do more than tag posts with general categories - even tag commentary is rare from me. Remembering that I *can* post about things and share my thoughts is something I have to almost forcibly remind myself of, haha.
But I do really appreciate the connections fostered on DW. It's not that that type of convo is impossible on tumblr (or other social media sites, too), but I feel like DW has better architecture for it.
You're right though: there are probably a fair number of people for whom that ISN'T what they're looking for out of their time online. But I've also seen some people - including ones young enough to have never used or maybe even heard of LJ - who seem to long for a sense of community/connection/reciprocity that they can't seem to find on twitter/insta/tiktok/tumblr. I feel like DW could give them what they want... but they don't know it, haha.
Also very fair - I'm used to needing to poke around a site to figure out how it works. I don't want an algorithm telling me what accounts to follow - I want to find accounts that interest me! A few people have remarked that they thing the DW user interface is impossible to use because it's too clunky... and I think I just disagree, haha. It's not super shiny or sleek, but I don't find it clunky.
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Date: 2022-11-11 03:59 am (UTC)From:But I do really appreciate the connections fostered on DW. It's not that that type of convo is impossible on tumblr (or other social media sites, too), but I feel like DW has better architecture for it.
You're right though: there are probably a fair number of people for whom that ISN'T what they're looking for out of their time online.
But I've also seen some people - including ones young enough to have never used or maybe even heard of LJ - who seem to long for a sense of community/connection/reciprocity that they can't seem to find on twitter/insta/tiktok/tumblr. I feel like DW could give them what they want... but they don't know it, haha.
Also very fair - I'm used to needing to poke around a site to figure out how it works. I don't want an algorithm telling me what accounts to follow - I want to find accounts that interest me! A few people have remarked that they thing the DW user interface is impossible to use because it's too clunky... and I think I just disagree, haha. It's not super shiny or sleek, but I don't find it clunky.