Right? It's all well and good to say "Cultivate your online experience", but it's so much harder with content aggregation sites, because they're designed to move content everywhere. I wrote a long essay about the differences between audience on Tumblr and Dreamwidth, and one of the major points is that you are much less likely to have bad faith interactions on Dreamwidth because you are much less likely to be exposed to complete strangers. There's usually at least some greater context that your ideas can fit into, and when there isn't (say, on the Latest Things page), that's an exception rather than the norm.
Yeah, it's... bad. Things on LiveJournal back in the day were also bad, but not in the same way, and not with so much... IDK, splash damage? It was at least a bit more insular, in part because it was still possible to be insulated from it.
Anyway, I understand why Tumblr became as popular as it is, even if it frustrates me, but still: Long live Dreamwidth!
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Date: 2022-03-20 01:50 am (UTC)Yeah, it's... bad. Things on LiveJournal back in the day were also bad, but not in the same way, and not with so much... IDK, splash damage? It was at least a bit more insular, in part because it was still possible to be insulated from it.
Anyway, I understand why Tumblr became as popular as it is, even if it frustrates me, but still: Long live Dreamwidth!