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Jun. 18th, 2021 07:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
memorizingthedigitsofpiI'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.
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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Date: 2021-06-19 11:45 pm (UTC)I think another big difference between tumblr and DW is context. On tumblr, you see posts floating in the ether with no idea when they were posted or which version of the conversation you're seeing. Here, the post stays put and it's nestled in between the posts that were written before and after it and you have your choice of which part of the discussion to engage in, to observe, or to avoid.
I don't know who's here, but I'm diving in and finding there are a lot of us after all! So I'm pretending to be an extrovert until further notice so that I can get back into the habit of chatting again lol
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Date: 2021-06-20 08:05 pm (UTC)Pretending to be an extrovert 🙈 I'll have to try that! Socializing is so much easier for me in irl situations where I can just listen and throw in a question or funny comment now and then :'D
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Date: 2021-06-20 08:16 pm (UTC)