It's the Final Fantasy XIV comm run by zenolalia. I bet they'll enjoy the company. I feel like I should maybe hit up my One Robot Friend on this site and make our own Transformers Shitposting Community. I have like three different tags for fandom shitposting on my journal but I'm also allergic to self-promotion >,>)
I'm one of those people who was at first kind of... relieved and excited about the freeform, big tent approach Tumblr had (before usability properly went to hell) because I'd been caught in cycles of BNF drama and outside forces raiding niche communities (ah, to be a wrestling fan in the early oughts again /s) but in hindsight, a lot of what I praised as good, useful features really did have the logical endpoint of... this. And it's a shame. I agree with you on Discord, like, I know IRC never really went anywhere, it just got progressively more polarised and various rooms more and more isolated, and Discord really fills that immediate low-commitment niche that used to fill for me. I'm also really bad at keeping up consistent longform posting, I write 7k every five months, so maybe low-commitment, low-archivability posting is where fandom just... is at, atm.
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I'm one of those people who was at first kind of... relieved and excited about the freeform, big tent approach Tumblr had (before usability properly went to hell) because I'd been caught in cycles of BNF drama and outside forces raiding niche communities (ah, to be a wrestling fan in the early oughts again /s) but in hindsight, a lot of what I praised as good, useful features really did have the logical endpoint of... this. And it's a shame. I agree with you on Discord, like, I know IRC never really went anywhere, it just got progressively more polarised and various rooms more and more isolated, and Discord really fills that immediate low-commitment niche that used to fill for me. I'm also really bad at keeping up consistent longform posting, I write 7k every five months, so maybe low-commitment, low-archivability posting is where fandom just... is at, atm.