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lovelyladyjaneSo, I've been told that this is very similar to LiveJournal. I was quite active on LJ in high school, but meandered away from it for reasons I don't remember at some point before it died a slow death. To be honest, I'm not totally sure what happened to it, and any effort on my part to find out is a bit like looking at crime scene photos of an assassinated website, only those photos are shuffled among a whole bunch of unrelated photos, and...
It's a bit of a mess. Just like this metaphor.
Anyway. The writing's on the wall for Tumblr, and like a whole bunch of adult content, the powers that be seem to be trying to censor that writing. It's unfortunate, but I'm a big believer in the power of the consumer: if you don't want it, don't buy it. I don't want to be part of a site that denigrates its base of fans, while offering leeway to truly objectionable content.
There's a lot I never liked about Tumblr, and I'll be honest with myself and admit they're mostly petty annoyances. I don't like reading posts in reverse chronological order. I think the way they manage conversation around a post is clunky and annoying and if it goes on long enough you
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reading
a
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But there are things I'll be sorry to lose. I liked the people I followed, and I liked how I found them. I've never had a problem with its networking, aside from feeling like an amoeba in a large pond, and even as far as that goes, I'll own up to just being terrible at marketing myself. I liked that I could reblog a photo or post a snarky one-liner, if I wanted to, or take the time and create a lengthy blog post. Most of all, it was easy. I didn't have to have a degree in software engineering to make readable things.
The solution, of course, is to diversify. I'm probably going to leave Tumblr because the content creators I subscribe to no longer feel welcome there. The question on everyone's mind is: where to? Twitter is large enough to create a sufficiently strong pull so that most will probably gravitate there, but it's got its own dumpster fire of a problem. Facebook is great for networking, but I'd just as soon not post all my anti-establishment shit for all my family to see.
I'm really liking Mastodon so far. It's not so big that it's ready to fall on top of itself yet, so I don't feel lost at sea when I post there. However, some things need more than a few sentences, like this post for instance.
So here's to another foray into the world of social media. Things I need to say that take a great deal of thought, effort, and most importantly, words, will end up here. Random sarcastic comments and the like you'll find @lovelyladyjane on mastodon.social.
I also really want to get back into editing my novel for publication, so I might use this space to post excerpts of more polished material. I don't think I'm going to put the whole thing online again like I did here: https://deltadivisionhq.wordpress.com. And from the mere fifteen pages I've already re-written, the novel's got a different feel. Hopefully once I'm done, it'll be publishable.
It's a bit of a mess. Just like this metaphor.
Anyway. The writing's on the wall for Tumblr, and like a whole bunch of adult content, the powers that be seem to be trying to censor that writing. It's unfortunate, but I'm a big believer in the power of the consumer: if you don't want it, don't buy it. I don't want to be part of a site that denigrates its base of fans, while offering leeway to truly objectionable content.
There's a lot I never liked about Tumblr, and I'll be honest with myself and admit they're mostly petty annoyances. I don't like reading posts in reverse chronological order. I think the way they manage conversation around a post is clunky and annoying and if it goes on long enough you
end
up
reading
a
thread
like
this.
But there are things I'll be sorry to lose. I liked the people I followed, and I liked how I found them. I've never had a problem with its networking, aside from feeling like an amoeba in a large pond, and even as far as that goes, I'll own up to just being terrible at marketing myself. I liked that I could reblog a photo or post a snarky one-liner, if I wanted to, or take the time and create a lengthy blog post. Most of all, it was easy. I didn't have to have a degree in software engineering to make readable things.
The solution, of course, is to diversify. I'm probably going to leave Tumblr because the content creators I subscribe to no longer feel welcome there. The question on everyone's mind is: where to? Twitter is large enough to create a sufficiently strong pull so that most will probably gravitate there, but it's got its own dumpster fire of a problem. Facebook is great for networking, but I'd just as soon not post all my anti-establishment shit for all my family to see.
I'm really liking Mastodon so far. It's not so big that it's ready to fall on top of itself yet, so I don't feel lost at sea when I post there. However, some things need more than a few sentences, like this post for instance.
So here's to another foray into the world of social media. Things I need to say that take a great deal of thought, effort, and most importantly, words, will end up here. Random sarcastic comments and the like you'll find @lovelyladyjane on mastodon.social.
I also really want to get back into editing my novel for publication, so I might use this space to post excerpts of more polished material. I don't think I'm going to put the whole thing online again like I did here: https://deltadivisionhq.wordpress.com. And from the mere fifteen pages I've already re-written, the novel's got a different feel. Hopefully once I'm done, it'll be publishable.
