Hello, Dreamworld
Dec. 7th, 2018 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oligopsonyIn 2010 I joined an improbably infamous epistemology forum founded by an apocalypse cult. The community built around this fled from about five or six platforms, and I am joining Dreamwidth so that I can stay in touch with the fork that has the least number of Nazis in it, if the current platform stops existing or functioning (or even if it doesn't, depending on how much I like this platform and who joins it.)
Historically I have posted about politics (more than I would like on reflection), meaningless RPG stuff (less than I would like on reflection), and whatever other, smarter people near me have been talking about (about as much as I would like on reflection.) If I do post here in any meaningful way, it is likely that I will continue to do so.
From the little experience I have of this platform, it seems much more Web 1.5 than where we were previously - not coincidentally, since it is a Livejournal clone. This seems encouraging to me - if I were designing a social network from scratch I would probably make it text-only (as paradoxical as that seems, given what prompted the likelihood of a Tumblr exodus.) But we shall see!
Historically I have posted about politics (more than I would like on reflection), meaningless RPG stuff (less than I would like on reflection), and whatever other, smarter people near me have been talking about (about as much as I would like on reflection.) If I do post here in any meaningful way, it is likely that I will continue to do so.
From the little experience I have of this platform, it seems much more Web 1.5 than where we were previously - not coincidentally, since it is a Livejournal clone. This seems encouraging to me - if I were designing a social network from scratch I would probably make it text-only (as paradoxical as that seems, given what prompted the likelihood of a Tumblr exodus.) But we shall see!
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Date: 2018-12-07 11:45 pm (UTC)To be less jokey I think that it would be difficult for a community to produce the precise kind of good things it did/does without it also producing things that were bad in many of the ways it did/does. This is ultimately because it's not a whole world, just an internet subculture - I can find weird people and discuss weird things with them. (Although maybe that itself is a very web 1.5, digital dualist way of thinking about it.)