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butterflydreaming I get hopeful when I see someone promote DW on another site. Yay! I want more communities to flourish. I want people to talk to each other, comment on posts, and generally enjoy this style of communication.
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Date: 2015-03-08 01:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-08 01:28 am (UTC)Yet, still busier than DW, just from stragglers. However, 60% of my friends list crossposts from DW. So, post origination happens here, but commentary happens on LJ.
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Date: 2015-03-08 05:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-08 06:54 pm (UTC)I'm unhappy with the endless scrolling, no bookmarks layouts of all social media. I like the snapchat concept, where posts disappear after a set time.
On consideration, I think I miss sctive communities more than a long friends list to read. Tsukimine Shrine and Musemuggers were great. Only lj style blogging creates communities, although secret fb pages and blog hops model some of that connection & discussion, too.
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Date: 2015-03-09 12:54 am (UTC)I never heard the term "shitposting" before, but it's certainly apt. Don't get me wrong, it's not that I want every post to be long and beautiful and though-out; mine certainly aren't. But it also seems that shitposting is now the norm; I think it's really changed the way people interact online, (along with the endless scrolling, no bookmarks format).
What was Tsukimine Shrine? I never heard of that comm before.
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Date: 2015-03-09 04:39 am (UTC)Even in the old days, we complained about "no content" and memes taking over. I'll take a shitpost over an e-card meme or link without commentary any day. The term "shitpost" seems to come from tumblr, which generates a lot of memes of its own, but typically ones that are incomprehensible outside of tumblr. (And somewhat incomprehensible inside tumblr, too.) Compare that to FB, where the memes come from outside, though, and tumblr earns some lopsided respect from me. (I continue to hate Facebook.)
Age is certainly in the equation, as well as technology. LJ was from the time of the desktop and laptop. Newer platforms are better mobile. Not having a keyboard supports a passive approach to online activity (except when Someone Is Wrong on the Internet!), waiting to be entertained instead of initiating communication. How can anyone have a conversation if the posts aren't threaded, using name tagging (if allowed) or reblogging? It's awful. Only trolls feel completely comfortable writing anything in response to someone's update, tweet, or post, I think. I swear, I delete as much as I type, sometimes, and not (just) for spelling. Maybe LJ started to seem to much like public speaking.
I do blather on...
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Date: 2015-03-09 10:55 pm (UTC)Totally hear ya in how not having a keyboard changes the conversation (or lack thereof). I wish my damn work didn't block and/or track everything; it's left me with the stoopid phone as my only Internet appliance, which has definitely shifted the nature of my communications to "short and only when necessary" :(