dreamwidth makes me feel like a baby. did you guys use to blog like this
Yes!!!! And we liked it that way! You could make a post and it wasn’t vague! It was a full on rant about your roommate who you know follows you. But you had privacy filters on so only your fandom friends could read it and none of your IRL friends.
You never had to worry about a personal post blowing up. You posted your fandom stuff in communities and your random thoughts of the day we’re restricted to your own blog.
Comments! You could have a whole conversation that made sense. Do you know how long it took for us to get nested replies on here?
Community! Not just Communities as in the feature but a community! You would make a post and everyone would comment on it. Directly! It didn’t feel like a derail by having something to say and you didn’t have to hide things in the tags. And you could reply! And it went directly to them and not buried under 20 other reblogs of replying to other people. You could post fic and actually get comments and start a conversation. I legit think a lot of fandoms issues as a whole is because we don’t have a lot of platforms where having conversations like that exists anymore. It’s very much just us screaming into the void.
Tumblr was never supposed to become the fandom platform it did and it’s ill equipped to function as such. Which has resulted in a lot of fracturing and isolation.
I’m not saying it was perfect or with drama. Just that when the drama hit, it was always juicy and complex, instead of just two complete strangers screaming at each other because of a misunderstanding
Tag: dreamwidth
matt just fired half the remaining tumblr support staff lmao
WordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staff | TechCrunch
from my sources adjacent to tumblr–from which i can spread rumors and insider information freely because i dont give a fuck about ever working in the tech sector–im hearing this round of firings was focused on purging the senior staff, and not just from support but from the entire remaining tumblr workforce. i’m hearing there are about 25 people left.
This is important, people. Please don’t scroll past this one.
While I don’t think that Tumblr is about to shut down anytime soon, as a fandom old who lost my community and my people when the fandom diaspora happened from LiveJournal, I want to urge that you do something NOW:
- Get your backup account(s) elsewhere NOW
- Let your moots know your username(s) at those places NOW
- Follow your moots at their places NOW
I mean this with all my heart. Get this done now. Get set up and find your people now. Tumblr is the home of fandom now, just as LiveJournal was the home of fandom way back. And you could end up losing your fandom home just as easily and quickly as us old LJ people did way back then.
It’s a horrible feeling, and most old LJ users still mourn the loss of it to this day.
The rest of this gets a bit long, so it needs to go behind a cut, but please take a moment out of your scrolling to read it.
I am a lot of places – technically I still have a livejournal because I got a permanent account back in the day. I’m on dreamwidth and bluesky and mastodon and instagram and tiktok and last.fm and I have blog but basically I am herdivineshadow nearly everywhere and also I have my own website where I link to wherever it is I can be found https://herdivineshadow.com