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love that the reddit -> tumblr migration is the surprise success story of the collapse of social media. i wouldn't have predicted that these two species would get along either! but it does make a kind of sense, yanno?
like, once freed of the upvote/downvote pressure to be terminally right on the internet and set loose in the open pastures of purely recreational pvp, it turns out redditors and tumblrinas have plenty to bond over: love of niche topics pursued at great length, doing bits, The Deep Lore... and, of course, the most topical shared interests of our current hellscape: spite, defiance, and malicious compliance
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I'm waiting for the day when, if you tell someone 'I'm from the internet', instead of laughing they just ask 'oh, what part?'
Online Communities [Explained]
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[Hand-drawn fantasy style map with land and sea areas representing populations of online communities, plus some fictious jokes and references. Each area or item is labeled.]
Map of Online Communities and related points of interest
Geographic area represents estimated size of membership
[A giant continent with:] The Icy North (Yahoo, Windows Live) containing the Mountains of Web 1.0, AOL, Qwghlm, Yahoo Games, Reunion dot Com, Classmates do Com, Faceparty, E-Harmony, Friendster (off the coast of which is the The Lonely Island), My Space containing The Series of Tubes, MySpace Bands, and the much smaller Attractive MySpace Pages, Blurty, O.K. Cupid, Cyworld, Orkut, Facebook, and Livejournal & Xanga - the coasts of which form the Bay Of Angst.
[The Noob Sea is bordered by AOL, the Icy North, MySpace, and an island system off the coast of Yahoo Games consisting of:] Second Life (and the much smaller island Third Life), Lineage, World of Warcraft, Runscape, Ultima Online, EverQuest, Final Fantasy 11, and further off, 2Channel and 4Chan. [To the east is labelled "Here be anthopomorphic Dragons].
[The Gulf of Youtube is bordered by Facebook, Myspace, and the island continents of:] Piczo, Broadcaster, the river Bit Torrent, Flickr, Last.FM, and DeviantArt with the subsection Gays of Web 2.0, and off the south coast and between another island is the Straits of Web 2.0.
[Off the pennisula of MySpace, island of Second Life, and island continents of Broadcaster et al is the Sea of Culture which hoasts the Peer-to-Peer Shoals. The Sea of Culture is separated from the Ocean of Subculture by and island system consisting of:] Digg, Fark, Reddit, Slash Dot, Soviet Russia, and Something Awful, which surround the Bay of Trolls, and Spaaarta (You're The Man Now Dog), Stumble Upon, and Delicious on the south end of the Viral Straits and the north end of the Sea of Memes, the Isle of Slash, Numa, and Your Base.]
[On the south end of the Sea of Memes, mostly made up of the IRC isles with a dotted outline where Usenet is located, is:] Stallman's Airship, Google's Volcano Fortress, Sourceforge, and the Wikipedia Project bridged island system that connects to M.I.T., EnGadget, Gizmodo, and Make Blog.
[West of the Wikipedia Project lies the Blogipelago with:] BoingBoing, Technorati, [something that can be read as T.W.B. or T.M.Z.], Cory Doctorow's Balloon, Sulawesi, Xu Jinglei, Post Secret, the Shipwreck of the S.S. Howard Dean, the Huffington Post, and the Wet Sea.
[North of the Blogipelago lies the Compass Rose-Shaped Island, with the north arm labelled Practicals (Noob), the south Intellectuals (Pi), west Focus on Real Life (I.R.L.), and the east Focus on Web (dot Com).]
(Not a complete survey. Sizes based on the best figures I could find but involved some guesswork. Do not use for navigation.)
Spring 2007
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Hey kids! Hey you! This is for you!
Don't sneak into 18+ spaces online, even if they're not nsfw spaces. Respect the boundaries that other people set. They don't want minors there for a reason. Stay out. There doesn't need to be porn for it to not be a place for you. Respect our wishes and wait until you're old enough to join. There are places for you that you can seek out.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk.
#no minors allowed#not safe for minors#just spewing my thoughts#adult spaces#online communities#discord servers
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If there is a heaven, then I can assure you that every adult or older person in a fandom or online community who is kind, supportive, friendly, and helpful to teens and younger members WITHOUT being weird about it is going to be there
#writing this bc a super popular person who makes STUNNING edits and jewelry and other various cool stuff was super nice to me today =D#I’m still happy about it =DD#so here’s the story#this person made a super pretty necklace and posted about it#that necklace stuck with me and made me feel ✨INSPIRED✨ so I decided to make my own (not a copy ofc)#and I posted to my story going ‘in gonna make a neotheater necklace bc I was feeljng inspired after seeing -username-‘s awesome necklace#and so I made it#attaching the clasp and chain onto the necklace at the end proved to be super difficult (the chain would NOT stay attached 😭😭)#and the person who inspired me responded and was all like ‘I’m so glad you got inspiration from me! I bet its gonna turn out super pretty!!#since you’re having trouble with the clasp you should do XYZ and it’ll make it stay on better#my friend showed me that tip a while back and now I’m giving it to you :)’#everything said was very paraphrased bc I’m too lazy to make it lesserso#but I’m still super happy about it#anyways the point is#be good to younger people#the world sucks but you don’t have to contribute to that fact#textpost#positivity#fandom#fandoms#community#online community#communities#online communities#art#artist#artists on tumblr#artists of tumblr#creatives on tumblr#this post is probably tagged super shittily
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When it comes to expressing yourself online: despite always wanting people to be able to honestly speak their mind and always wanting to be as welcoming as possible to people new to a community; eventually there is one lesson we learn over and over again.
Never go 100% freedom of speech.
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Since LinePlay is closing down on April 18, 2024…I wanted to take a few screenshots of my character, clothes, and room. ₍^. ̫ .^₎
It was fun while it lasted! I actually fell off playing for a long time but occasionally logged in for dailies. This gives me flashbacks of TinierMe shutting down, and I miss that feeling of having an online community and friends. 😢
I’ll miss the cute clothes and avatars…but life goes on. Until another game like this comes around~!
#kei thoughts#line play#LinePlay#online communities#games#😔#might as well try gaiaonline or final fantasy
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Stop Talking To Each Other & Start Buying Things
Excellent think piece on the Twitter implosion and the history and future of social media by Catherynne Valente: Stop Talking To Each Other & Start Buying Things.
All about the good, bad, and ugly of social media and why we need to protect our quirky little spaces and/or keep banding together to make new ones. The end made me tear up a bit, for real.
Biggest takeaway -
“Love things and love each other. We’re good at that, too. Protect the vulnerable. Make little things. Wear electric blue eyeshadow. Take a picture of your breakfast. Overthink Twin Peaks. Get angry. Do revolutions. Find out what Buffy character you are. Don’t get cynical. Don’t lose joy. Be us. Because us is what keeps the light on when the night comes closing in. Us doesn’t have a web address. We are wherever we gather. Mastodon, Substack, Patreon, Dreamwidth, AO3, Tumblr, Discord, even the ruins of Twitter, even Facebook and Instagram and Tiktok, god help us all.”
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On taking breaks and moving on
An online friend of mine from a community I used to frequent several years ago just published his first chapbook of poetry, and his announcement reminded me of how many years it’s been since I’ve been active in that community.
In fact, it’s been pretty common in my life (online, at least) to move on from communities over time. In “past lives,” I’ve been a notable contributor to a handful of open-source software projects, an active member on a variety of discussion fora, a frequent commenter on a handful of old-school blogs, a part of the aforementioned community in question, and, of course, our beloved Hosie fandom (far more active on AO3 than on here, for sure). I think the longest I’ve been an active part of something has been 7 years, and in most of the longer-timeframe instances, I’ve also taken breaks and later returned.
Legacies debuted in 2018, and I’ve been a Hosie since nearly the beginning (the poking in the park)—but still before I knew it was a ship!—and reading fanfic on AO3 since at least late 2019 (though I didn’t start writing my first Hosie fic until late February of 2020). So we’re stumbling towards middle age, I suppose. And a series that produced only 68 episodes and, in this new visual entertainment media reality, will be locked away in a corporate vault, never to be seen again (more on that some other time), well, the reality is, the fanbase has already peaked.
The worst, of course, of my online community experiences are the cases where it felt like I was the only one left putting in the effort to hold up the project or community, and not wanting to quit because I know it will be the end if I do—the wall will come tumbling down—but also not wanting—or being able—to keep at it alone.
Already I feel like we’re approaching that point in the Hosie fandom on AO3. It used to be that it didn’t matter who you were, your fic would garner a handful of comments; you didn’t have to be one of those “top tier” authors whose chapters drew dozens of comments. Today, though, those same “top tier” writers and their successors are lucky to get a handful of comments on their chapters, and I often find myself the only reader commenting on new chapters from many existing authors as well as new work from new authors—yes, amazingly, there are still some! (There are others who are pretty active in the comments, particularly Shadowmama55, who wrote their first fic this year—you should go read it if you haven’t, and leave comments as you do—a cracking debut fic!)
All of which is a longwinded way of saying that I hope this writing slump of the past 9 months or so is just me taking a break. I know from experience my active time remaining is limited, but I don’t plan on walking away yet—at least not before TheDarkestHour13 finishes Such is Our Fate (and I think the projected chapter count is 200-something, so that’s another couple years yet if the current chapter/week pace persists, so rejoice in its slow burn) 😏
See you around, everyone 👍
December 4, 2023
#status#musings#fandom#online communities#fanfic comments#hosie#writing struggles#hosie fics#fic recommendation
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How to Boost Your Online Presence with Digital Marketing
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Introduction
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Table of Contents
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Implementing Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Creating Engaging Content
Leveraging Social Media Platforms
Harnessing the Power of Email Marketing
Embracing Video Marketing
Engaging with Online Communities and Influencers
Utilizing Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Advertising
Analyzing and Measuring Performance
Keeping Up with Digital Marketing Trends
Incorporating Mobile Optimization
Enhancing Customer Experience through Personalization
Conclusion
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#boosting online presence#digital marketing#online visibility#attract customers#drive growth#digital advertising#market size#strong online presence#digital marketing strategy#user-friendly website#search engine optimization#engaging content#social media platforms#email marketing#video marketing#online communities#influencers#pay-per-click advertising#analyzing performance#digital marketing trends#mobile optimization#customer experience#personalization#digital marketing agency
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If you are feeling bummed about the loss of yet another online community, read this long, impassioned, beautiful post from Cat Valente:
“Don’t ever stop talking to each other. It’s what the internet is really and truly for. Talk to each other and listen to each other. But don’t ever stop connecting. Be a prodigy of the new world. Stand up for the truth no matter how often they take our voices away and try to replace the idea of reality with fucking insane Lovecraftian shit. Don’t give up, don’t let them have this world. Love things. Love people. Love the small and the weird and the new.
Because that’s what fascists can’t do.”
#twitter#late stage capitalism#online communities#fandom history#elder millennial#livejournal generation#i miss livejournal#long form#cat valente#all of this#talk to each other#stop buying things
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as an agender person I have multiple different gender personas, and I choose a different one to enact everytime I join a new community
-my male personas name is Koda Rylan Mathews
-my female persona is Mia Bailey Roscoe
sometimes theres a third secret option, named Rikmet
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Check out our list of the top online forums for lawyers and discover a wealth of resources for networking, learning, and staying up-to-date on the latest legal trends and developments. Connect with other legal professionals, exchange ideas and tips, and grow your knowledge and skills with these active and vibrant online communities.
#online forums#online communities lawyers#attorneys#legal#online communities#legal communities#communities#forums
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Social Media Platform: Twitter Suffers Outage as Bluesky Goes into Beta Testing
Social Media Platform: Twitter Suffers Outage as Bluesky Goes into Beta Testing
Social media platform Twitter owned by Elon Musk, suffered another outage on the 1st of March, leaving thousands of users unable to view tweets. At the same time, Jack Dorsey’s new project, Bluesky, grabbed attention as it went into beta testing.
Twitter Outage Details
On March 1st, Twitter users worldwide were hit by…
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#bluesky#damus#damus social network#decentralized social#media#online communities#social media#social media apps#social media platform#social networking platform#social networks#twitter#twitter app#twitter social network
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The end of online privacy
Now, this isn't something I usually post about from my silly goofy k1nk account (reminder to minors to not follow or scroll this acount).
But I have more followers on here than main, and this is extremely important. Like, scary shit.
This applies to everyone. If you're reading this? It's going to effect you.
I'm sure perhaps some of you have seen around about a this thing going around... KOSA, is one of the ways it's being referred to.
If this shit passes, lemme tell you...
LGBTQ+ adults and minors seeking help and community,
people looking for abortions,
people organizing protests,
anyone using their free speech to voice concerns about injustices,
even FAN ARTISTS...
Even people reading fan fiction...
And for the purposes of where I'm posting from... people sharing and enjoying their k1nks, wanting to post things with safety and privacy... smut artists and writers, people even LOOKING for smut...
It's all gone. No privacy.
They'll have your face, your name, your age, where you live.
You'll need an ID to use any US-based platform, even if you're NOT in the United States.
Instead of dooming, here's what you can do to stop this shit in it's tracks 👍
Here is a website where you can sign a letter just by filling out a form, (it takes less than 30 seconds) and where you can call reps.
I HIGHLY suggest leaving calls if you're able, and if you have phone shyness, do this after 6pm, since it will leave messages instead.
I'm shy, but I did it!
Here's another letter to sign, takes less than 20 seconds.
Here is a form you can fill out sharing how the social media has POSITIVELY effected you.
Share all of this with as many people as you can. Our safety, freedom, joy, and protection online is at risk more than ever.
(Here is the thread where I found all of this information.)
STAY SAFE!
#fav posts#txxxtpost#nsft#kinkblr#lgbtqia#lgbtq community#stop kosa#kosa#kids online safety act#internet censorship
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The Rise of the Very Online Dad: A Look at Fatherhood in the Digital Age
Are you following a Very Online Dad? Tag your favorites below! #VeryOnlineDad #ModernFatherhood #ParentingInTheDigitalAge #FierceLiving #FierceMillennial #Connect&Thrive
From wholesome memes to parenting advice, a new generation of dads is finding their voice (and their followers) online.
Into the World of the Very Online Dad
In the ever-evolving social media landscape, a new type of digital dad has emerged – the Very Online Dad. Gone are the days of simply putting up a few awkward vacation photos on Facebook. Today’s dads are building communities, sparking…
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#Connect & Thrive#dads#fatherhood#FIERCE LIVING#FIERCE MILLENNIAL#modern families#online communities#Parenting#social media
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Mastering the Digital Age: Elevating Brands Through Social Media
Social media marketing takes advantage of social media sites that allow for people to post their ideas, gather information from others, interact with people, and share their thoughts, or even converse instantly. Some examples of social media are blogging sites, micro blogging sites, and social networking sites.
#Social Media Strategy#Digital Presence#Audience Engagement#Social Media Analytics#Influencer Marketing#Online Communities#Brand Identity#Marketing Campaigns
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