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lokiofsassgaard) wrote2023-08-03 08:46 am
lokiofsassgaard) wrote2023-08-03 08:46 am
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Communities on this site really are dead, aren't they?
Save what seem to be a couple of RP ones that are still clinging on somehow, there really aren't many properly active communities here as far as I can tell. The exceptions seem to be notice board style communities, which don't really foster much in the way of an actual community as such. The Add Me ones are active, in that people post to them. There are a few check-in style ones where dedicated people post on a set schedule, and members answer questions or respond to a poll. I guess FFA counts, but like. lol FFA.
But all week I've been trying to find actual communities in the proper sense, built around a singular theme where actual members post about the themed topic and there's discussion and well, a sense of community, and everything I search for that is relevant to my interests pulls up page after page of abandoned and forgotten communities that haven't been posted to for years. I suppose someone might say to be the change you want to see, but I've moderated communities in the past and it's awful, and also I've tried in the past to start new ones and there's no point when you're a brand new community next to six dead ones for the exact same thing. You just wind up being dead community #7. I guess the only way it works is if you already have a large enough active following on your personal journal already who would be interested in joining a community, but like this site seems so slow and dead on the whole I'm not sure that's even possible. Maybe there are people doing the numbers somewhere, but everything here seems so splintered and neglected that half the appeal of coming back here is always that it isn't the mad scramble for attention that social media platforms are.
And then it's the catch-22 of wanting a quiet journal, but also wanting to find active communities, and not being able to have both.
But all week I've been trying to find actual communities in the proper sense, built around a singular theme where actual members post about the themed topic and there's discussion and well, a sense of community, and everything I search for that is relevant to my interests pulls up page after page of abandoned and forgotten communities that haven't been posted to for years. I suppose someone might say to be the change you want to see, but I've moderated communities in the past and it's awful, and also I've tried in the past to start new ones and there's no point when you're a brand new community next to six dead ones for the exact same thing. You just wind up being dead community #7. I guess the only way it works is if you already have a large enough active following on your personal journal already who would be interested in joining a community, but like this site seems so slow and dead on the whole I'm not sure that's even possible. Maybe there are people doing the numbers somewhere, but everything here seems so splintered and neglected that half the appeal of coming back here is always that it isn't the mad scramble for attention that social media platforms are.
And then it's the catch-22 of wanting a quiet journal, but also wanting to find active communities, and not being able to have both.
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I feel like communities are the biggest reason this site fails to thrive. When it first launched, the stylesheets were high on that list, because LJ looked so much nicer, but at this point that doesn’t matter. But now, anyone who does bother coming over seems to get bored immediately because even with the add-me options, there are no real ways to connect with anyone else. Especially if you try looking for anything outside of fandom. DW really got pigeonholed into being a fandom platform, when it was just meant to be an LJ alternative, so if you’re not looking for fandom spaces you’re really out of luck.
Edit: well, reply by email is incredibly broken. I won’t be doing that again LMAO