reblog if you had a livejournal
REPRESENT
PSH! #diaryland
Still do. Just about.
I still do but had to friends-lock it. But I miss it a lot. :(((
Haaaaad?
I don’t use it as much now because my friends are all in different fandoms, but if you joined fandom only in the Tumblr/Twitter era YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE MISSING.
1. Threaded comments that don’t have to be replied to with a whole separate post
2. Profile pages so you could find out about a person and also check out their followers to see if you know people in common/find other people into what you’re into
3. Communities for fic, and newsletter communities for fandoms that rounded up daily news (actor stuff, pics, videos, etc)
4. Much better signal to noise ratio (not seeing the same thing 15 times or having to install xkit just to make your dash readable and filter out fandoms you aren’t in)
5. Just a way, way more grounded sense of where and who people are, instead of shouting into a crowded room all the time
This is my third go-around with Tumblr and fandom, and it’s only manageable now because I’m following hardly anyone (sorry guys). I really cannot wait until somebody makes something that combines the ease of image-posting on Tumblr with the actual content of LJ, because I feel like this place encourages you to be silent.
Shhh, don’t make an original text post, no one wants to read that, especially if it’s just about your personal life (which you couldn’t lock/filter anyhow). Shhh, don’t add text to that reblog, just hide your comments down in the tags, where people have to scroll to see them. Shhh, all you can contribute is a picture of an actor that’s probably already been posted with six different edits to the tag. Just reblog, baby.
I love fandom and fans and it makes me so sad, too, to see what’s been my culture for going on 20 years now get eroded and lost. I don’t know where fandom will be in another 20 years but I’m guessing the history of my chunk of it (Usenet, mailing lists, personal websites, LJ) won’t get carried on.
All, all, all of this. I still have my LJ, have a DW account, too, and use them every day. TALKING - what is it? Tumblr is for pretties, LJ is for conversation.
I was on LJ for about fifteen years (the journal I had the longest used the same name as this blog). I miss the days when it was active and I felt so connected. I loved being able to lock my posts down to friends only and pour out my heart. It was an important part of my twenties and thirties. I made some amazing friends there - some of them are on Tumblr, which makes me happy. :)
Tumblr’s chat function (as opposed to asks) has made such a difference to me, but yeah, there were some great things about LJ.
And I also have a dreamwidth