Platforms

[omorka]

I have just about decided that I can't keep up with Tumblr and it's silly for me to try. Unfortunately, the Monkees fandom only seems to exist there and on Facebook, and I am not even attempting any fandom activity on Facebook; most of the people I have on there are either former students or family members. Most of the fanart end of the Channel Awesome/Chez Apocalypse famdom seems to be Tumblr-centric, too. *sigh*

I wish this sort of blogging-focused social networking was still popular. There are not words for how much I hate Facebook, and text posts more than three sentences long don't get responses on Tumblr. I don't mind Twitter, but it has pretty severe limitations and IMHO isn't much good for fandom stuff other than news and roleplaying. I end up writing twelve-tweet essays because of the character limit.

Ah, well. At least there are a few folks still left here. I'm going to attempt to journal more often this year, although a lot of the time that's likely to be the "altar log" type posts (which I should be doing more often anyway).

Comments

[newandrewhickey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the whole Internet seems to be becoming more and more geared towards people whose needs are not the same as mine. LJ, when it still had users, was perfect -- lots of texty stuff, and communities so you could talk about your interests to groups other than *everyone in your social circle*.
Tumblr is, for me, the best of a very bad bunch right now. But it's no good for *conversation*, and certainly no good for talking about ideas.
As far as I'm concerned, the history of the Internet has been a succession of attempts to reimplement usenet, but with less of the functionality that I liked and more stuff that helps advertisers. Oh well :-/

[omorka]

i hear you on the Usenet thing, although I think I prefer LJ/DW to the old newsreaders.

The other advantage Usenet had was that you already had to be an initiate into, if not hacker circles, at least hacker-adjacent circles to even know what it was, so there was some automatic social filtering for people who didn't know how to behave. Unfortunately, that also meant there were gatekeepers all the way back . . .

[pinesandmaples]

text posts more than three sentences long don't get responses on Tumblr.

Tumblr devs took out the reply function anyway. It's reblogs or naught now.

[omorka]

I'll count reblogs with text additions as responses for the purposes of this conversation, especially since even when there were replies, you couldn't reply to a reply without starting a new thread.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Since I interact with tumblr on a raw basis (no reader, xkit or blacklist) I've instituted a 42 rule. Once I've dug back to page 42 on my dashboard I declare bankrupt and start over the next time.

I have to be at a remote location to reblog or post.

I also follow just a managable number of whatever they are called.

[omorka]

I probably ought to prune my follow list on Tumblr, but I hate cutting people - everyone on there seems to take it so personally!

[nerdcredred]

YOU LIKE THE MONKEES TOO HOLY CRAP HELLO FRIEND :D

[omorka]

Certified Monkees fan since 1986!

[james]

It would help if freaking tumblr had reply functionality on posts. Stupid tumblr.

[moontyger]

It's probably too much work to really be helpful, but I was just reading this thread on trying to create a DW-style fandom community on tumblr. How well it would work in practice, well, I can't say. But it is too bad there seem to be so few places these days for real discussion.

OTOH, since I'm linking to it, I should mention that FFA is actually pretty good for it. It's just unfortunate that the posts move so fast.