Yeah, it's not easy. I mean, you need a busy comm with people to show people how it works, but if you can't show how it works, how do you ever get the people? And while I've dipped my toe in other waters, I can't do chat things as an alternative - I could only do little bits of tumblr, so I just carry on here. The tumblr exodus influx has at least brought a few new souls, and the icon-making circles seem to have picked up, and I'll take what I can get in the meantime.

meme things are baffling, but they do seem to be pretty lively compared to a lot of the other things, and they're more casual. But, yeah, this whole pre-Web.2 way of interacting is just baffling to people. Which is sad. It's different, but it's not actually all that complicated. There just isn't enough going on here for a lot of people to feel it's worth the effort that would be required, understandably.

I don't know, the tide of fandom has gone out here, but I'm beached anyway, what can you do?

ETA: Oh, fic_rush is having a round this weekend and that's a chatty sort of thing (although within a set time period) - catch fic_rush_48 for the hourly posts. (It's just a sort of writerly get together that happens monthly.)