Omg, I am in awe of people who will write long-form things on Twitter. It seems like actual hell to me. It's bad enough trying to read it, but it write it? Those people must be dedicated!
Fandom is simply too large to return to a version of online community that rests on the shoulders of a disproportionately IT-savvy community. Hobby IT doesn’t scale.
I think you are unfortunately correct about this.
I think it’s also worth considering how ao3 stats and kudos make it way more visible how many lurkers are reading your fic, when the getting the proportion of lurkers required intentional data gathering on LJ.
This is true too! I just find it fascinating that the fics I post on AO3 for small fandoms outside of exchange time get a much higher proportion of comments per number of hits than when I post to large ones. And of course that's boosted even higher when it is part of an exchange/collection.
he gift culture of old school fandom was deeply tied to very legit fear of legal reprisal. I learned about campbell vs acuff rose music and was citing it in fic disclaimers when I was 12 lmaooo
Lol same!
I am not wild about commercialization and I don’t like the vibes, but I don’t think it is like some deep corruption of what it means to be in community with each other.
I agree with you about this. I think it's fine that other people want to do fandom in a particular way, and I do not want to stop them! I just want to be able to find people who want to do it my way, you know? I am very blessed by my dreamwidth circle of friends, but we don't share any fandom overlap, and I miss that! Whereas the people who are in my fandom all seem to be on platforms that I just cannot deal with. It's disheartening!
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Fandom is simply too large to return to a version of online community that rests on the shoulders of a disproportionately IT-savvy community. Hobby IT doesn’t scale.
I think you are unfortunately correct about this.
I think it’s also worth considering how ao3 stats and kudos make it way more visible how many lurkers are reading your fic, when the getting the proportion of lurkers required intentional data gathering on LJ.
This is true too! I just find it fascinating that the fics I post on AO3 for small fandoms outside of exchange time get a much higher proportion of comments per number of hits than when I post to large ones. And of course that's boosted even higher when it is part of an exchange/collection.
he gift culture of old school fandom was deeply tied to very legit fear of legal reprisal. I learned about campbell vs acuff rose music and was citing it in fic disclaimers when I was 12 lmaooo
Lol same!
I am not wild about commercialization and I don’t like the vibes, but I don’t think it is like some deep corruption of what it means to be in community with each other.
I agree with you about this. I think it's fine that other people want to do fandom in a particular way, and I do not want to stop them! I just want to be able to find people who want to do it my way, you know? I am very blessed by my dreamwidth circle of friends, but we don't share any fandom overlap, and I miss that! Whereas the people who are in my fandom all seem to be on platforms that I just cannot deal with. It's disheartening!