Today is the day I scream about social media start-ups on tumblr, apparently

[momijizukamori]

Today is the day I scream about social media start-ups on tumblr, apparently. Linking rather than crossposting, because I'm pretty sure my auto-crossposter would pull in the whole reblog chain and that's obnoxious.

My response to WritScrib, the newest attempt at a tumblr alternative (tl;dr - DW has 90% of the features already, would not implement 5% of them because they're bad ideas, and it would be far, far easier to add the extra 5% than reinventing the fucking wheel).

My additions to a conversation about fandom culture and history on social media and why you should use DW.

Basically I just want to shake people and scream 'DREAMWIDTH IS RIGHT FUCKING THERE OKAY'

(and now I'm going to try to calm down and go back to watching Nirvana in Fire and sewing)

Comments

[mathemagicalschema]

AAAAAA you're watching Nirvana in Fire??? If you are ever looking for someone to babble at I am so here for you. I watched it once and then I had to immediately watch it again and then make my partner watch it with me a third time. so good <3

[branchandroot]

Hah, another one for the depths of NiF! *cackles and rubs paws gleefully*

Ahem. That is, yes, it's a lovely show. *whistles innocently*

[momijizukamori]

You posting about it made me finally get off my butt and start it - now I'm 14 episodes in and totally addicted.

[momijizukamori]

I'll probably make a post just about it later this week because SO MANY FEELINGS, I HAVE THEM.

[highlander_ii]

as much as i liked Imzy (byebye imzy) - they tried the pseud thing... and it was confusing af and annoying to figure out and, not really much better than using multiple accounts and a password manager (which, IMO, is 1000x's faster). not to mention, if oops! u commented with the wrong pseud in a comm, u were stuck w/ that pseud in that comm b/c u couldn't change it - ever.

[silveradept]

Poor Internet, that can't remember what it has already done. Good writing, both of those, about the reasons why DW and AO3 came into being.

[momijizukamori]

Yeah, it's one of those things that sounds nice in theory, but it's hard to actually implement in a way that is actually useful, and doesn't encourage account-sharing (which is a huge security risk). I know AO3 has it, but afaik the linking is pretty transparent - they all go to the same profile page, so it's really just more of a pen name.

[momijizukamori]

Yeah, the fandom history one was really good - I knew a lot of it, but not about the harrassment that was happening on FF.net.

[branchandroot]

It's /dreadfully/ addictive. And you're just coming up on the first "wrench your heart out and stomp on it". Well, the first big one, your heart is pretty heavily stomped by then anyway, if you spend any time watching the subtle expressions in how Lin Shu looks at Jingyan or, well, /any/ moment between Lin Shu and Nihuang. But the first stomping with hobnail boots. On the other hand, the first big Magnificent Bastard moment, too!

[momijizukamori]

Yeah, I knew like two episodes in that this was gonna wreck me, but I accept that as the price I pay for satisfying my h/c and loyalty kinks. And yes, Shu has so many beautiful subtle expressions, both sorrowful and joyful.

[highlander_ii]

On AO3 - I'm pretty sure the idea was born from ppl who had different usernames in different fandom spaces for whatever reason being able to attribute their work to those different usernames. (Don't quote me there, but I think that's where it came from.)

But, yeah, the potential for abusive profiles is sort of minimized if they all lead back to your primary.