I hope so too, and I'm glad it's not just me getting the sense that the pendulum has begun to swing again in the other direction! I try to be cognizant of my biases ... and also my age, since I'm now at the point where it's "developmentally normal" (to borrow the phrase I apply daily to my students in their struggles!) to miss the formative institutions and experiences of my youth and feel like what is available now is inferior. But ... I do think that, legitimately, what was available on platforms even ten years ago (as Fandom migrated to Tumblr about ten years ago) has not been replaced by the current options for platforms, which is not the fault of those platforms. For all my grumbling about Tumblr and AO3, they were at the center (but not the causes!) of the same circumstances that led to so many fannish spaces closing down or going inactive: the loss of Geocities, LJ's various foibles, the loss of Y!G.
I too preferred the LJ and mailing list model, which allowed for social interaction but at a pace I could handle. I'm fine with Discord but also have to be careful with it; I can lose entire afternoons, unplanned, in a way that didn't feel as common when the need to respond wasn't as immediate.
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Date: 2023-01-08 02:58 pm (UTC)I too preferred the LJ and mailing list model, which allowed for social interaction but at a pace I could handle. I'm fine with Discord but also have to be careful with it; I can lose entire afternoons, unplanned, in a way that didn't feel as common when the need to respond wasn't as immediate.