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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]

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" :(