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[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

I'm trying to decide what I want to use this space for, and I'm kind of tempted to use it for the posts that I tag as "thinky thoughts" over on tumblr.

tumblr's great for a lot of things - obviously, I've been blogging there for almost a decade. But it can also get overwhelming sometimes.

My personal account there is semi-dormant since I tend to think of that as a place where I can hyperfixate on my fandom of choice and interact with other people in that fandom - but I don't currently have a fandom that I'm obsessed with the way I was with my last one.

I do miss that feeling, though. A lot.

So I think I might use this space to dump all of these thoughts that I have about social media and fandom and the various discourses that keep me up at night. This is a better forum to have those kinds of conversations. Even when I reblog other people's opinions on tumblr, it feels too much like I'm an audience member watching a conversation rather than an actual participant in it. Especially when so many of the speakers are actually just whispering in their tags.

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[likethenight]

Chiming in mostly to echo everyone else!

I often don't feel comfortable actually commenting on Tumblr posts or reblogging with comments (not just yours, pretty much all of them) because I've seen so many people get piled on by the 'general public' on Tumblr who've misunderstood (wilfully or otherwise) the point they're trying to make, and I just don't have the mental energy to deal with that. So I'm an inveterate whisperer-in-tags, where it doesn't really show up but I can still ramble a bit. I think in some ways it's slightly too easy to comment on Tumblr, so people do it without thinking, whereas here it's a bit more of a process and a bit more structured, and maybe that encourages slightly more thought before pressing 'post comment'.

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

I think the other benefit of dreamwidth is that people will only see the discussion if they want to. On tumblr, things get thrown onto your dash whether you want to see them or not, and I think that's where some of the dumpsterfire pile ons can happen. Same thing with the additions to posts. If it's in a space like this then the OP has the ability to remove comments they don't want associated with their thoughts. On tumblr, once it's out there you have no ability to get it back.