--as a social media merger of LJ + tumblr I've been really appreciating Pillowfort. (Even if it's still more of a far-off dream than a well-established & relatively stable home-site like Dreamwidth.) Everything is still a bit of a mess so being casual & awkward (instead of polished) is the norm. . . for now.
But anyway-! I appreciated the thought & insight in this entry. That's mostly what I wanted to say. LOL.
I was never active on LJ's communities--I'm actually not much of a "fandom" type at all. I've seen it tho. I definitely saw people use the communities as a "public" meeting space. when their main journal was largely locked away under filters. As for tumblr, if you submit to a "community" blog your work just gets posted up for all the big group to see, but you may not be in charge of how it is presented/tagged, and have no way to respond effectively. . . Yeah. Makes sense that people can sense a feeling of being 'exposed' (given that there's no privacy whatsoever once someone knows your tumblr URL!!!), or of trying to meet some kind of standards.
I'm glad Discord has come around to fill a gap for me (group conversation instead of awkward one-on-one). Hoping some fun people keep coming to PF though, because I'd like that to be the "persistent representation" of my presence, where I can keep a profile, etc.
I see people trying to use twitter for all-purpose and it HURTS me--the "all or nothing" privacy of twitter accounts is miserable and the comment culture is as entitled as that of internet news articles.
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https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/653323?page=1&comment=363478
--as a social media merger of LJ + tumblr I've been really appreciating Pillowfort. (Even if it's still more of a far-off dream than a well-established & relatively stable home-site like Dreamwidth.) Everything is still a bit of a mess so being casual & awkward (instead of polished) is the norm. . . for now.
But anyway-!
I appreciated the thought & insight in this entry. That's mostly what I wanted to say. LOL.
I was never active on LJ's communities--I'm actually not much of a "fandom" type at all. I've seen it tho. I definitely saw people use the communities as a "public" meeting space. when their main journal was largely locked away under filters.
As for tumblr, if you submit to a "community" blog your work just gets posted up for all the big group to see, but you may not be in charge of how it is presented/tagged, and have no way to respond effectively. . . Yeah.
Makes sense that people can sense a feeling of being 'exposed' (given that there's no privacy whatsoever once someone knows your tumblr URL!!!), or of trying to meet some kind of standards.
I'm glad Discord has come around to fill a gap for me (group conversation instead of awkward one-on-one).
Hoping some fun people keep coming to PF though, because I'd like that to be the "persistent representation" of my presence, where I can keep a profile, etc.
I see people trying to use twitter for all-purpose and it HURTS me--the "all or nothing" privacy of twitter accounts is miserable and the comment culture is as entitled as that of internet news articles.