So, Tumblr...
Apr. 17th, 2015 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kari_izumiHow do I use it?
No,I don't plan to leave LJ completely, but given that announcement that is all but bribing members to return (apparently, a lot of people got fucked over and left three years ago, but I don't know all the details), I would like another fandom-friendly place where I can post somewhere other than the FB page with my real name on it.
So far, it seems one can only post to their own account, and not to communities. God, this must be what my parents feel like every time they use a computer or buy a new cell phone. :(
ETA: I hope![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nenya85 sees this, as she's one of the few remaining folks on my feed that still posts here to use tumblr
No,I don't plan to leave LJ completely, but given that announcement that is all but bribing members to return (apparently, a lot of people got fucked over and left three years ago, but I don't know all the details), I would like another fandom-friendly place where I can post somewhere other than the FB page with my real name on it.
So far, it seems one can only post to their own account, and not to communities. God, this must be what my parents feel like every time they use a computer or buy a new cell phone. :(
ETA: I hope
nenya85 sees this, as she's one of the few remaining folks on my feed that still posts here to use tumblr
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Date: 2015-04-18 02:23 pm (UTC)Tumblr is a bit of a strange creature. There are no communities. It's a kind of "free-for-all-blogging"... with nothing to really tie people together. You can follow people, which is basically like friending them, but there's no real way to comment or communicate. There's a messaging system, that mostly doesn't work and many messages seem to get lost in limbo. To have a conversation with someone, you basically have to reblog their post to your own tumblr and add what you want to say at the bottom, for everyone (that follows you) to see, and then the other person has to do the same thing back. The tags that could be helpful seldom aren't, because people use them for commentary on whatever it is they're posting. Instead of putting that in the actual post, because that is apparently rude or something.
I mostly scroll and click like on pretty pictures there. It gets boring after a while, and it's definitely not a place to post or find fic.
But it's fun in its own strange, voyeuristic way. People just watching each other post pictures and complain about finals or not being able to sleep. ;)
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