I have also lost my ability to get completely lost in fandom. I don't know about you but that has made engaging in current fandom spaces kind of difficult, as my interests are now a lot broader than they used to be. I want to talk to people about current video games, not one specific fandom. I like Overwatch, for example. I don't particularly care about the lore, or the characters, or coming up with AUs, but I certainly like PLAYING it. Where's that part of the series??
People don't really talk about things anymore.
Yeah, 100% this is what I miss and haven't really found a perfect substitute. I liked being able to post on someone's fanfic/icons/art/theories/episode watch-a-longs whatever and chat with a group of people about it, Tumblr/Twitter don't really have the interface have group conversations. Weirdly(?) I've got some of this satisfaction from SometingAwful (probably because, as a forum, it's one of the dying relics of the internet because...having specific areas where you state "this is the topic I want to discuss here, with the audience of this website" went out of fashion and I don't understand why). Post in an anime thread when a new episode comes out or talk about rescue dogs or ask about hardware with people I can recognize by username in a space devoted to that specific topic. It's kind of sad this is the only place as there's some cruddy parts (and it's a paid membership) but it is what it is.
Some smaller reddits scratch the itch as well but that's still a much wider audience and also has the flashbang issue (if it's not seen, it's gone; also, upvoting/downvoting doesn't always favor discussion if your opinion goes against the group).
I do wonder sometimes if journaling would have a stronger presence if Livejournal had handled the site better than they did towards the 'end'.
This is a lot of words, sorry! Your post inspired me to spew my own thoughts. :p
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Date: 2017-03-19 06:27 am (UTC)I have also lost my ability to get completely lost in fandom. I don't know about you but that has made engaging in current fandom spaces kind of difficult, as my interests are now a lot broader than they used to be. I want to talk to people about current video games, not one specific fandom. I like Overwatch, for example. I don't particularly care about the lore, or the characters, or coming up with AUs, but I certainly like PLAYING it. Where's that part of the series??
People don't really talk about things anymore.
Yeah, 100% this is what I miss and haven't really found a perfect substitute. I liked being able to post on someone's fanfic/icons/art/theories/episode watch-a-longs whatever and chat with a group of people about it, Tumblr/Twitter don't really have the interface have group conversations. Weirdly(?) I've got some of this satisfaction from SometingAwful (probably because, as a forum, it's one of the dying relics of the internet because...having specific areas where you state "this is the topic I want to discuss here, with the audience of this website" went out of fashion and I don't understand why). Post in an anime thread when a new episode comes out or talk about rescue dogs or ask about hardware with people I can recognize by username in a space devoted to that specific topic. It's kind of sad this is the only place as there's some cruddy parts (and it's a paid membership) but it is what it is.
Some smaller reddits scratch the itch as well but that's still a much wider audience and also has the flashbang issue (if it's not seen, it's gone; also, upvoting/downvoting doesn't always favor discussion if your opinion goes against the group).
I do wonder sometimes if journaling would have a stronger presence if Livejournal had handled the site better than they did towards the 'end'.
This is a lot of words, sorry! Your post inspired me to spew my own thoughts. :p