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Sun, 16 Dec 2018 18:30:03 GMT

Been þinking about þe old Fandom Is A Way Of Life vs Fandom Is Just A God Damn Hobby debate lately.

It feels like every time I þink about þe question I get a new answer. When I was a teen and had noþing else to do all day, of course fandom was a way of life for me. I þink it was one of my first communities made entirely of like-minded people, and when I didn't have any real direction in life þe þing I spent every free minute indulging in was, obviously, a way of life to me.
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Re: what we're all doing here

Fri, 07 Dec 2018 21:50:33 GMT

I've been chatting to people on and off about þe migration, and þere's a whole lot of factors going into it so my conclusion on it shifts daily.

I þink fundamentally it boils down to þis: þe lumps of fandom who have been around long enough to have seen strikeþrough or at least migrated once or twice þemselves are going to be fine. Give it a year, and þere will be a consensus on where Fandom is. My current bets favour Pillowfort if þey can kick þeir infrastructure into shape fast enough. Mastodon isn't indexable enough, and þis place is a ghost town wiþ a bad rep.
Þere's a nonzero chance of a splinter group staying on Tumblr and just. not caring about nsfw content. Can't work out þe odds on þe low quality of þe bots and constant false flags discouraging people from doing þat.
Everyone else? I have absolutely no idea. After everyone moved to Tumblr, it seems from my perspective like fandom absolutely exploded in size. And fandom has kind of changed, too. Þe last fandom I can þink of þat behaved remotely like þe pre-Tumblr fandoms I knew was SPN or MCU, and half of SPN were still crossposting to LJ. It feels super super different now. I can't really quantify why or how, but it's all more discoursey and less. transgressive, I guess. I have absolutely no idea if fandom 2.0 is gonna trundle along þe way þe old crowd did, or if a site migration is gonna change how fandom works again, or even if migrations have done þat in þe past and I just never saw it.
Þere are a few less likely options, like þe bot-purge being ultimately ineffective and life continuing as usual or þe OTW stepping up to þe plate, but frankly I can't see þose happening. Þere is very little doubt in my mind þat fandom will continue, but what it's going to look like in 2 years sure is a mystery.

We are living in interesting times, I guess.

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