that's the joy of a journal, you don't have to have a point, you can just write out a collection of thoughts and feelings :3
i agree i would rather have comments collected all one place on ao3, then i can look at them from anywhere without aditional work on my part, whereas any way i try to archive comments from discord or tumblr, im gonna end up losing them.
its so strange to think about people who are "growing up" in fandom now as "discord native" which i personally think is terrible, because the entire thing is 100% ephemeral. i already thought tumblr was too ephemeral and it's much more lasting than discords are.
i don't care how old man yells at cloud it makes me, i honestly think the speed of the internet these days, not just social media but news sites and streaming platforms etc and how the algorithem has been specifically designed to squeeze as much of our attention as physically possible, which means needing to keep everything moving so fast, so you keep scrolling because otherwise you're going to miss things! i fucking wish fandoms lasted longer than a month or two before the next tumblr beloved season or movie dropped and everyone ran to binge that instead. there is obviously all the other more serious problems this money driven algorithm creates, like the speed of spreading missinformation/conspiracy theories/radicalization, but it all ultimately comes from the same root, from the way i understand things.
idk im gonna keep yelling about this forever ig. i keep telling amado i wanna make a knives out comm here on dw, a la the old fandom comms on lj. since we know there will be a knives out 3, and they wil probably keep going for as long as daniel is willing to do them, and there's probably the best chance these days of having a lasting community if it's a franchise. if i build it, they may not come, but otoh, if no one builds it, no one will come.
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Date: 2023-03-13 04:32 am (UTC)i agree i would rather have comments collected all one place on ao3, then i can look at them from anywhere without aditional work on my part, whereas any way i try to archive comments from discord or tumblr, im gonna end up losing them.
its so strange to think about people who are "growing up" in fandom now as "discord native" which i personally think is terrible, because the entire thing is 100% ephemeral. i already thought tumblr was too ephemeral and it's much more lasting than discords are.
i don't care how old man yells at cloud it makes me, i honestly think the speed of the internet these days, not just social media but news sites and streaming platforms etc and how the algorithem has been specifically designed to squeeze as much of our attention as physically possible, which means needing to keep everything moving so fast, so you keep scrolling because otherwise you're going to miss things! i fucking wish fandoms lasted longer than a month or two before the next tumblr beloved season or movie dropped and everyone ran to binge that instead. there is obviously all the other more serious problems this money driven algorithm creates, like the speed of spreading missinformation/conspiracy theories/radicalization, but it all ultimately comes from the same root, from the way i understand things.
idk im gonna keep yelling about this forever ig. i keep telling amado i wanna make a knives out comm here on dw, a la the old fandom comms on lj. since we know there will be a knives out 3, and they wil probably keep going for as long as daniel is willing to do them, and there's probably the best chance these days of having a lasting community if it's a franchise. if i build it, they may not come, but otoh, if no one builds it, no one will come.