Date: 2022-03-17 05:07 am (UTC)
soc_puppet: Words "Mad Fangirl" in blue (And by "mad" I mean "angry")
From: [personal profile] soc_puppet
I myself keep going back to that time [staff profile] denise was talking about the technological side of social media interaction, and how the way a site is built will impact the sort of conversations you have there and the culture it develops. As a content aggregation site whose userbase is heavily invested in both fandom and social justice, Tumblr seems ripe for growing a particular culture that favors moral outrage in fandom settings. Slower format social media sites, such as LJ and Dreamwidth, still have problems with ship wars, and I even remember seeing some social justice oriented "Why you should ship what I ship and not what you ship" arguments referenced on Fandom Wank, but like. That was on Fandom Wank. We had a specific place to point out how outrageous and poorly founded those arguments were! With sources, even! Now we just have callout posts that get halfway 'round the site before anyone things to fact check, and links that rarely stay where you put them for more than a few weeks.

I need to stop typing here, or I'll be trying to sleep while angry, and that never goes well.
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