I'm tired and a little discouraged in fandom

[gekidasa]

For the past few years, most of my fandoming was on Twitter. At this point, over a year after the sale to elmo, I barely go there, and when I do, I don't stay long. I have an extension that makes it chronological and removes ads, but even so I mostly don't care, it feels like the little fandom communities I had on there are gone.

Which leaves me with not much to replace it.

I obviously don't post here very much and don't have much of a community. I was a big Tumblr user for awhile ten years ago, and while I like to read there, it really isn't great for interacting and I very much feel like I go ignored there, possibly I just don't know how to use tumblr as it is now.

I had hopes for Bluesky, but it just feels emptier and emptier with very little fandom presence.

Discord I'm generally terrible at, although the saving grace there is the sangcheng server. Which tends to be quiet, but I suppose that's better than it being super busy, which would make me bounce.

Mastodon is where I'm doing most of my fandom interaction these days. And I do really enjoy the conversations. It's just that it doesn't scratch the shippy itch, because I'm pretty much the only person that posts about the ship I'm most into.

Comments

[salinea]

I know that feel, it's also a big difficulty for me. I still consider tumblr my main fandom hub, but along with discord (the chengxian server is busier than the sangcheng one).

[gekidasa]

I should try joining the chengxian server…

[salinea]

You could!! Everyone's very friendly. Don't hesitate to ask if you want an invite.

[gekidasa]

Yes, please, I would like an invite 🥹

[salinea]

I asked for one !

[gekidasa]

Wait, you’re in the sangcheng server? I don’t think I’ve ever seen you there (ok, I know there’s been like 3 different ones) 😂

[salinea]

Yes, the one I'm in is "sangcheng purple heart green heart" I didn't know there were others. It's pretty dead right now...

[gekidasa]

Oh! The one I mean is "Hall of Sangcheng", and while it's small and a little slow, it's cozy and not at all dead and there's nice discussions. Do you want an invite?

Several people from tumblr are on it!

[salinea]

Yes, please :D

[gekidasa]

DMed!

[groundwiremantaray]

*consoling shoulder pats*

I wasn't ever on Twitter but it really sucks that so many online communities got disrupted by the Musk takeover.

Sangcheng server is really nice, and glad to see you in the Chengxian server too! (SCX gets mentioned quite a bit in the poly channels there fyi)

Feel free to ignore if you mostly wanted to vent--is there anything that would help make Dreamwidth more fun/rewarding as a fandom space? I like posting to the Sangcheng comm every once in a while but I don't really know how comms are supposed to work haha

[gekidasa]

This is a very sweet message, thank you 💜

The cx server is nice but a little overwhelming, there’s so much stuff!

Really what would make dw better is on ME. If I could magically get back whatever it was that used to make it so easy to post to lj. 😅