Tumblr Free Day
Dec. 17th, 2018 12:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Last night I had the bright idea of removing the Tumblr app from the homepage on my phone (not deleting it! Just moving it out of sight) and man, I am glad I did. I keep reflexively looking for it when I have a minute to myself, because Tumblr was good for distractions and new stuff and pretty pretty art, but not for community.
Whereas anytime I open up a DW window I end up with nine tabs and three replies to write because To Be A Fan On DW is to be a chatty, chatty human being. XD
Does the social media you're using effect who you are on that platform? I tend to think it does, but I am betting people have other experiences.
I have tried to establish Kitewithfish as Who I Am in fandom with little IRL crossover, so most of my online stuff is as a version of myself slightly detached from people who might google my name. Who I am online with fannish folks is different than I am with people on, say, Facebook, but it's pretty close to who I am in person. I have mostly kept FB a Fandom Free Zone for me, since god, that site gives me the Heebies AND the Jeebies, but I happily chat about fanfic with people who know me in life, tho I am coy about usernames.
Whereas anytime I open up a DW window I end up with nine tabs and three replies to write because To Be A Fan On DW is to be a chatty, chatty human being. XD
Does the social media you're using effect who you are on that platform? I tend to think it does, but I am betting people have other experiences.
I have tried to establish Kitewithfish as Who I Am in fandom with little IRL crossover, so most of my online stuff is as a version of myself slightly detached from people who might google my name. Who I am online with fannish folks is different than I am with people on, say, Facebook, but it's pretty close to who I am in person. I have mostly kept FB a Fandom Free Zone for me, since god, that site gives me the Heebies AND the Jeebies, but I happily chat about fanfic with people who know me in life, tho I am coy about usernames.
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Date: 2018-12-18 01:17 am (UTC)That sensation--never seeing moderate and sensible ideas, and also of seeing dumb extreme ideas shared as some kind of profound truth--was unbelievably common on Tumblr.
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Date: 2018-12-18 02:02 pm (UTC)On Tumblr, this is The Discourse: only the most controversial opinions got widespread bc the posts were reblogged by the True Believers, the Moderates Softening the Position, and the Absolutely Opposed. The fight makes things *more* visible. To avoid it all, you'd have to end up blocking even the people who are commenting to register their opposition - which, hell, sometimes I did.
On DW, the wankery has to be hosted by someone at their journal or community, and it's more contained - you have to go looking for it. It spills out, yes, but to get the full details you have to go back to the source of the wank, and blocking one person can really effectively remove a lot of fanwank from your life.
Honestly, my view on blocking was honed by Facebook. I block people and delete comments with gleeful abandon and I've ended up with a reasonably civil bunch of folks who I like to hear from. Fandom, learn to block. It's fine.
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