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Nov. 12th, 2023 09:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I know that we Dreamwidth proselytizers can be annoying, but I've seen takes on Tumblr that are like ... fine but it's not truly social, it doesn't have a culture, it's just LJ/a blogging platform without features for interaction!
...????????
Honestly, as someone who's been here since the LJ migration, the idea that there's no distinctive Dreamwidth "culture" is almost funny. Obviously there are different communities and parts of Dreamwidth that differ a lot from each other, but the idea that DW culture = LJ culture when so many people threw absolute tantrums over the differences in site culture between LJ and DW (many of which are quite real!) back in the day is pretty surreal.
I know that was a long time ago now, but Dreamwidth is not and has never been a neutral environment, lol.
...????????
Honestly, as someone who's been here since the LJ migration, the idea that there's no distinctive Dreamwidth "culture" is almost funny. Obviously there are different communities and parts of Dreamwidth that differ a lot from each other, but the idea that DW culture = LJ culture when so many people threw absolute tantrums over the differences in site culture between LJ and DW (many of which are quite real!) back in the day is pretty surreal.
I know that was a long time ago now, but Dreamwidth is not and has never been a neutral environment, lol.
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on 2023-11-12 07:36 pm (UTC)no subject
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on 2023-11-13 12:31 am (UTC)Basically, if people were going to say that Dreamwidth's culture is irritating or intimidating, I can easily understand where that's coming from, esp in this age of the Internet. The idea that it doesn't have its own culture at all is the thing I find puzzling!
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on 2023-11-12 10:39 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2023-11-13 12:34 am (UTC)That was an excellent post, by the way.
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on 2023-11-18 12:22 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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on 2023-11-13 01:57 pm (UTC)This is so odd to me--I don't exist on Tumblr, I just lurk sometimes, but it always seems to me that there's so little, well, socializing! on Tumblr compared to DW--it's much harder to have a back-and-forth conversation or just leave a casual comment. (Maybe if I had a Tumblr account I'd know different, but...) I like image posts on DW much better, for instance, pain in the ass as they are, because I can actually see what everyone had to say about the pictures and how the original poster responded and...you get what I mean!
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on 2023-11-13 08:58 pm (UTC)I know it's how most social media works, but for me it's such a pain to not be able to have a public conversation without putting it front and center on the blogs of everyone involved. I much prefer threaded conversations like this and feel that it's more purely social in a way.