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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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[butterflydreaming]

I'm just joined a comm for "shitposting": random, short thoughts about unimportant things. I didn't fully realize that a lot of people felt that they didn't have thought out, beautifully written, intellectual posts, so they moved to using other social media where shit posts are the norm. In one part of my circle, we started using "# things make a post" for the same reason.

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.

[t_hale_capital]

*nodnod* I definitely miss active communities and LJ style blogging.

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.

[butterflydreaming]

It was my fandom, fanfiction community for the anime Cardcaptor Sakura (which will always have my heart). Because of it, I joined LJ, joined Musemuggers & MM2, and I wrote regularly! Because of man troubles, I stopped writing prose regularly. T_T Now I'm back to writing regularly, including writing fanfic -- which doesn't mean I don't have guy troubles, and I don't have a community like the old days, but I'm a little more settled into myself.

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...

[t_hale_capital]

Sounds like Tsukumine Shrine was a wonderful gateway for you! I can't remember precisely how I stumbled across LJ, but that led me to MM and then to PCG. For which I'm very grateful :)

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" :(