Alright, fine.
Dec. 19th, 2018 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
potofsoupI've been feeling short on spoons -- trying to build up activity on DW, but simultaneously there's all this hubzilla and mastodon talk, while at the same time half of everyone has escaped to twitter or PF and then yelling about it in a variety of discords and slacks. All these platforms and all this effort is ... a lot. And at the same time, there's a frustrating sense of stagnation -- between the Great Scattering and the holidays, everything is in a holding pattern -- a lot of name squatting but not a lot of posting.
If you asked me yesterday, I would have said to fuck all this waiting -- choose a platform and start posting. Instead of waiting for activity, *be* the activity.
But today, I'm feeling a bit burnt out. Anyways, after whinging about it on Slack, I've decided that I'm gonna just chill the fuck down. Figuring out federated fandom is someone else's problem. I've always been overwhelmed by large chat groups, so why force myself to join them now? I'm just going to focus on DW and AO3. I'm going to scroll through my DW "reading page" and get to know old and new fandom folks better. I'm going to finish this dang MTH comic that I've been working on for far too long and then post it to AO3. I'm going to tidy up the DW comms for the fan events that I'm modding. Then maybe in a few months, I'll check in and see how the federated fandom stuff is going.
So I guess, in a way, I *am* choosing a platform. I just have to get over the fact that, by doing so, there will be content from other platforms that I won't be seeing. That's sad, but now that I think about it, that's not a new decision. There's always stuff that I'm missing out on, and That's Okay.
If you asked me yesterday, I would have said to fuck all this waiting -- choose a platform and start posting. Instead of waiting for activity, *be* the activity.
But today, I'm feeling a bit burnt out. Anyways, after whinging about it on Slack, I've decided that I'm gonna just chill the fuck down. Figuring out federated fandom is someone else's problem. I've always been overwhelmed by large chat groups, so why force myself to join them now? I'm just going to focus on DW and AO3. I'm going to scroll through my DW "reading page" and get to know old and new fandom folks better. I'm going to finish this dang MTH comic that I've been working on for far too long and then post it to AO3. I'm going to tidy up the DW comms for the fan events that I'm modding. Then maybe in a few months, I'll check in and see how the federated fandom stuff is going.
So I guess, in a way, I *am* choosing a platform. I just have to get over the fact that, by doing so, there will be content from other platforms that I won't be seeing. That's sad, but now that I think about it, that's not a new decision. There's always stuff that I'm missing out on, and That's Okay.
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Date: 2018-12-20 01:33 pm (UTC)i do miss seeing the fanart and the edits though, but i'm not sure DW is really the platform for that sort of thing.
on another note -- did you see pillowfort had a data leak? or like they got hacked and one user saw everyone's emails or something like that? guess that's not the next platform....
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Date: 2018-12-20 07:42 pm (UTC)... yeah, I'm not sold on PF. Which is why I'm working to convince people that DW is a viable platform!
And I'm definitely appreciating the level of communication here -- on tumblr, I'd post something, and then ... not know how to talk to the people who liked it?? Or I'd see a post with interesting stuff, and not really have any sort of way to talk to the original poster except to reblog and yell??? Anyway, this is much better.
I think DW can work for fanart! I just have to make some fanart to prove to people that it'd work!
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Date: 2018-12-20 07:49 pm (UTC)i think we just need to drag enough people over and then we'll get everything a little more active in general!! can't wait to see some of your new art :)