>> The big drawback for me is the difficulty of archiving things for fandom posterity. There are reams of thoughtful and insightful meta that will never be posted outside a Discord server and will probably die with that server.<<
I have been doing more with archiving things to the Wayback Machine and Archive.fo. I'm hearing that AO3 is hostile to meta, so I think we would benefit from creating a separate archive for meta.
>>Tumblr seems to have a near death experience every 3-5 years<<
I've come to view every exodus as an opportunity. Wherever you are, look at why people are complaining, then check that against your favorite venues. Which one(s) will best solve the problems people are complaining about? Then tell your friends about that. I've put a lot of effort into twitter_refugees and made a good handful of new friends this time. That's good, because when people make friends on a new site, they're more likely to stick around and stay active.
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Date: 2023-02-03 02:07 am (UTC)I have been doing more with archiving things to the Wayback Machine and Archive.fo. I'm hearing that AO3 is hostile to meta, so I think we would benefit from creating a separate archive for meta.
>>Tumblr seems to have a near death experience every 3-5 years<<
I've come to view every exodus as an opportunity. Wherever you are, look at why people are complaining, then check that against your favorite venues. Which one(s) will best solve the problems people are complaining about? Then tell your friends about that. I've put a lot of effort into