The reblogging ability makes it possible for people to participate in fandom even if they're not creating new content, but only with the recent updates could you count on having something approaching functional discussions on Tumblr. And even THEN things are happening simultaneously as comments, as reblogging with comments, and reblogging with tags. LJ/DW functions more like a clasic forum, with the extra benefit of threaded comments so that you CAN have those five different conversations happening, but they're easily visible for everyone, and you can come back to them later without them being buried beneath five hundred likes.
I'm not at all surprised by people being hostile to paying for tumblr. I did pay for LJ, but that was mainly for the userpics. I donate to AO3 and I might get a subscription to DW, but in that case it's because I want to support platforms custom-made for my community. I guess I'm just cynical ennough to assume that any social media is selling my data anyway.
I happen to teach the subject that is probably the closest to anything like "media awareness". The political realities of "middling language community where a lot of traditional media only thrives because of considerable public subsidies" are... really something I should probably bring up even if it isn't on the curriculum, huh? Not that that'll do much with the economical model of the entire internet, but at least it'd make the kids appreciate that there's no such thing as free lunch.
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Date: 2022-02-28 11:46 pm (UTC)I'm not at all surprised by people being hostile to paying for tumblr. I did pay for LJ, but that was mainly for the userpics. I donate to AO3 and I might get a subscription to DW, but in that case it's because I want to support platforms custom-made for my community. I guess I'm just cynical ennough to assume that any social media is selling my data anyway.
I happen to teach the subject that is probably the closest to anything like "media awareness". The political realities of "middling language community where a lot of traditional media only thrives because of considerable public subsidies" are... really something I should probably bring up even if it isn't on the curriculum, huh? Not that that'll do much with the economical model of the entire internet, but at least it'd make the kids appreciate that there's no such thing as free lunch.