"I'm not familiar with Fanexus and their plans, but I feel like the ability to reblog is one of the issues with current social media because you end up having to perform/put on a public face on all of your posts, because it might end up pushed under the eyes of many, many people including ones you hadn't meant to reach." It's true, but it's still an extremely useful feature for some things that are meant to be shared (for a personal example, I'm currently co-organizing a couple of fandom events, and having people reblog the promo posts has been invaluable in putting them under people's radar; participation took off beyond our expectations, which would probably never have happened if people didn't have an easy and effortless way to spread the word).
Privacy features that enable you to limit your posts' visibility to a chosen group of people should already (in theory at least) limit this need to put on a public face, since you can avoid random people seeing them. But being able to lock the ability to reblog would be the most ideal, I think. Doesn't Pillowfort have that? I made an account a while ago, but I must admit I haven't used it much ^^;
Basically, the ideal social media platform for me would be like a mix of DW and Tumblr: encouraging communities and discussions through comments, without completely doing away with reblogs (but having lots of options for privacy and limitations). Of course, even if the perfect platform were to magically appear tomorrow, it'd be no use if people didn't adopt it... So in the end, I'm just following the herd anyway XD
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It's true, but it's still an extremely useful feature for some things that are meant to be shared (for a personal example, I'm currently co-organizing a couple of fandom events, and having people reblog the promo posts has been invaluable in putting them under people's radar; participation took off beyond our expectations, which would probably never have happened if people didn't have an easy and effortless way to spread the word).
Privacy features that enable you to limit your posts' visibility to a chosen group of people should already (in theory at least) limit this need to put on a public face, since you can avoid random people seeing them. But being able to lock the ability to reblog would be the most ideal, I think. Doesn't Pillowfort have that? I made an account a while ago, but I must admit I haven't used it much ^^;
Basically, the ideal social media platform for me would be like a mix of DW and Tumblr: encouraging communities and discussions through comments, without completely doing away with reblogs (but having lots of options for privacy and limitations). Of course, even if the perfect platform were to magically appear tomorrow, it'd be no use if people didn't adopt it... So in the end, I'm just following the herd anyway XD