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[beccaelizabeth]

I am frustrated by current social media options.
Tumblr is easier to signal boost but impossible to find people on, let alone have a conversation.
DW has the great comment threading capability but takes many taps to make a link to somewhere interesting.

I need to go through that friending post and make more friends who are still here.


also I forgot to join Imzy back when I was asking about it. Is that still a thing? Did everyone go there? If they did they wouldn't be here to tell me so.




I still miss mailing lists and message boards. I mean I'm still on mailing lists and message boards, but everyone else left, usually in the 90s.

also I mostly lurk most places because talking is hard and the idea of friending or even just adding to reading list new people kind of makes me ill of anxious, but that's not a technical problem.



Tumblr is busy and noisy but in a signal loss way. It's easy to keep the queue full and read the dash all day but hard to make meaning beyond oooh pretty.



I'm really glad of Ao3 because I hate to think how fragmented fic could get without it.

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[gehayi]

DW has the great comment threading capability but takes many taps to make a link to somewhere interesting.

What do you mean?

[beccaelizabeth]

you do not just press reblog to make the interesting thing be shown to all your followers
you have to do cut and paste things to make a link to show the interesting thing
tumblr makes signal boosting easier

[the_rck]

Imzy still exists. I haven't been there in a couple of months because I keep forgetting and/or having offline stuff that's stressing me out too much to deal with the unfamiliar. It's public now, so I think you don't need an invitation any more.

I'm not entirely enthusiastic about Imzy's format because all entries displayed on a person's main view are truncated, sometimes with only a sentence or partial sentence, sometimes with more than that. I have trouble figuring out which things are worth my time/effort to view, and then I have to remember to return to the main view the right way so that I don't lose my place. The last I knew, comments weren't sorted by time posted but rather by popularity, but they were threaded to some extent.

Imzy was designed to be entirely communities, but a lot of people have made 'communities' that they use as private journals. There's no easy way to tell those from the actual communities when browsing the lists of existing communities. As I said above, it's been a couple of months since I was last there, and they might have addressed that. They also might not have.