lielac | Dec. 17th, 2018

...is that while it's neither Twitter nor a Livejournal derivative, it does ok if you want to post short snappy shitposts or long rambling effortposts. I feel like with Dreamwidth I can't just make a brief post whining about how I ate about four bowlfuls of lentils-and-stuff on Saturday and then yesterday I farted all goddamn day, I have to have a minimum wordcount or post size or something.

This is of course completely untrue; I could make a post containing nothing but "F" to pay respects to the Tumblrtanic. But Dreamwidth posts are, as far as I can tell, majority or entirely what Tumblr natives would call "effortposts", this one included. It's a different culture from Tumblr, and I've spent the last... -counts on fingers- Gosh, almost 6 years learning and getting used to and going native in the Tumblr style of Doing Things On The Internet.

I'm participating in the "log-off protest" on Tumblr today; I even logged off the mobile app, although I did check that Firefox knew my password before doing so in case I care to log back on tomorrow. Tumblr is my first top site on Firefox's New Tab page, and I have to consciously remind myself "no, we're making a symbolic gesture to Tumblr involving a hopefully-alarming drop in their user traffic, do not click the button".

Transitioning from Tumblr to here and wherever else is going to be messy, and annoying, and fandom is going to splinter to hell and back and I don't know where I'm going to get my Bionicle shitposts when I care to dip my toes back into my oldest fandom because last I checked BZPower thinks PG-13 is pushing it and also is a forum and so really not a good source of Tumblr-style "scroll the tag and see what things people have flung out into the void lately" consumption of fandom.

And Bionicle is a dead fandom twice over and so Tumblr sinking might just mean we lose people as they decide it's not worth trying to get back in because the dedicated fandom is scattered all over... This isn't a problem at all unique to my old-enough-to-vote first and favorite fandom, but it's my first fandom and I love it and BZPower is eeeehhhh and r/bionicle is worse because what I care about is fanfic and flipping off the gender binarism of goddamn robots and only BZPower is good for even the first one.

And oh look, I've made a rambling effortpost anyway. Is there a point to this? Eh. Press F to pay respects to Tumblr in its maybe-death throes, I guess.