modern social media sucks for fandom

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

Sometimes you just need to make a bulleted list.

• all posts are public, leading to epic levels of wank
• people reply at different points in the conversation, also leading to wank but more importantly, obscuring parts of the conversation and also making the full conversation only viewable to the initial poster
• sharing anything automatically shares it with everyone you know on that platform because you can't have subgroups for your content unless you make multiple accounts
• real fucking names
• constantly changing usernames (looking at you tumblr) makes it impossible to know who you're even following/who's following you. it also makes it hard to keep track of friends
• platforms are maximized for "engagement" not for community, so it's all about getting the likes and shares and who cares about deep diving anything
• priority is mostly given to short form content which makes nuance difficult
• everything moves so fast that it's difficult to have a follow up conversation on anything you post because people can't find the initial thought
• everything is presented without the context of the posts that came before and after them - especially on sites that don't give you a date/timestamp
• tags are communal rather than personal, so you never really know what you'll find in there. Everyone wants to organize their own space, but the items they put in their containers might be something you're allergic to (to stretch a metaphor)

I can't do twitter. Tumblr makes me feel more like either a spectator or a performer. Tiktok is every social media experience I've ever had, played through at 100x speed. No option is perfect, but some are way less perfect than others. At least for me.

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[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

I can't even imagine fandom on Instagram. And the fact that there are people who do it on pintrest and tiktok just blows my mind. I get that humans are great at adapting things to serve their own purpose but... damn.

I hope you like it here on dreamwidth. It's a very different kind of space to the major socials. Much slower and quieter which is good for someone like me who needs a bit of asynchronous communication and can't keep up with the pace of things. :) Also, I can't tell you how much I've missed having a place that is mine

[drawnecromancy]

Fandom on Instagram is... well, when I was active, it was Reposting Without Credit : The Social Media. Big fan accounts rarely credited, and when they did, most people wouldn't go through the "trouble" of giving the actual artist a follow. That, added with the "art takes time to make", usually made reposting accounts more viable than art accounts unless you were able to churn out art really fast. (And as far as I know it's still like that, but I'm not on there enough to be certain). Couple that with the inability to put content warnings before they did their "slideshow" update, and... sometimes people attempted to put them in the "location" bit, but that didn't hide the picture.

Keeping up with the insane pace of things is hard yeah. For me also, I'm not in any US time zone, so a lot of stuff happens while I'm asleep.
For now at least I'm going to see how to customize the journal a little (even with my nonexistent coding ability it looks like there's some themes i can pick from ?) and go from there haha