Hey all! This community isn’t as active as it once was, but I think in light of what’s happening on tumblr we should think about whether we want to try and establish this comm on other social platforms as well. As I see it, we have a few options:
- We can attempt to revive the lj comm
- We can create a DW comm
- We can check out a new/different social platform such as mastodon or pillowfort
- Some combination of the above
- No, it isn’t worth it to try and move the whole comm, Mish is probably overreacting
As far as I know, neither @thisisteal nor I have had any posts flagged at this point, & since we’re still the admins that’s promising for nothing happening to this blog. For the meantime I’ve requested assistance with backing up this blog here. But I’d love to hear from all of you about your thoughts & feelings on this!
Fair warning, I’ve had some struggles in the past year & may not be able to facilitate the leap to a different platform.
(I would also encourage all of you to check out/contribute to this google doc about what fandom would like to see out of a potential new platform. The guy who owns Pinboard has suggested that he may be willing to make a new site for fans to move to, and if you’re unfamiliar he has a very good track record with these things. The doc is being compiled for him to see what we would like to see out of such a thing.)
Having gone through at least one big fandom move in the past, I would love it if this comm were at least backed up on Dreamwidth or Pillowfort (or some combination of platforms). I don’t know about the LJ comm for this community specifically, but I know there’s lots of old comms with excellent posts and meta that I and others will post in just to keep them from being lost due to inactivity.
Honestly, whether or not it would be worth it to move/back up the comm will likely depend on where a lot of the current fandom decides to go, if they decide to go (and given tumblr’s lazy and ridiculous AI, I’m betting on a lot of people moving house). Just my two cents.
It’s good to hear that at least some folks would like to see the comm backed up! Does anyone have any platform preferences? DW seems like an obvious choice but it might be worth it to look into also making the leap to PF or another platform.
Honestly, one of the things I’m most concerned about is losing the posts of old members of this community who are no longer on tumblr (such as pintpotjudas and catladyinwaiting) whose posts are currently only preserved through reblogs, so if I start working on any kind of preservation that’ll probably be my first priority.
If we do end up making the leap to another platform, I’d love if 1-2 people could volunteer to help Teal & I mod/admin.
Since I refused to sign LJ’s TOS back when, I’d like to see things at least archived on DW. I volunteer to help if I can–with the understanding that I’m not a programmer and pretty terrible in general at tech stuff.
honestly the actual work of “helping people figure out the new platform” and “greeting new community members” and so on is really what would be the most difficult for me. I’d enthusiastically welcome help with the actual archiving, obviously, but if you were willing to lend a hand with the work of setting up a new comm/modding it that would be amazing!
It sounds like those of us participating in this discussion right now are leaning heavily toward DW for this? If I don’t hear from anyone otherwise by, say, 8pm US Mountain Time (1am GMT) I’ll move forward with creating a DW comm, if that sounds good to everyone?
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