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I was reading an article from 2022 Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media by Catherynne M. Valente and even if it's two years old at this point it still seems as relevant as ever. Bluesky is underway as the 'new' social media and it seems like some places on the fediverse are crashing.
The article talks a lot about LJ and the destruction of LJ that looms large in I'm sure a lot of DW users minds, considering that DW was born from LJ being gutted. It just makes me think, the thing about DreamWidth is that it's always felt a little like a bomb shelter, in that everyone wants it to be there but nobody wants to actually be here for long periods of time. For a long time, people threatened to move here whenever social media sites became unusable but very few people actually did, and when they did they tended not to stick around too much. Which is... sad? It seems like it could be a real thriving social media site like old LJ, but it just doesn't have the new-shiny that corporate can buy now to make it slick and immediately appealing.
This and other things have made me continue to think about my neocities website, but also aside from that I've been going even MORE low-tech and paying more attention to my commonplace book/zibaldone. I think once I've practiced enough I might do a write-up on these types of books on the neocities site along with some useful links because they are having a bit of a moment now, and maybe that moment should stay, because the internet is so friggin fickle.
The article talks a lot about LJ and the destruction of LJ that looms large in I'm sure a lot of DW users minds, considering that DW was born from LJ being gutted. It just makes me think, the thing about DreamWidth is that it's always felt a little like a bomb shelter, in that everyone wants it to be there but nobody wants to actually be here for long periods of time. For a long time, people threatened to move here whenever social media sites became unusable but very few people actually did, and when they did they tended not to stick around too much. Which is... sad? It seems like it could be a real thriving social media site like old LJ, but it just doesn't have the new-shiny that corporate can buy now to make it slick and immediately appealing.
This and other things have made me continue to think about my neocities website, but also aside from that I've been going even MORE low-tech and paying more attention to my commonplace book/zibaldone. I think once I've practiced enough I might do a write-up on these types of books on the neocities site along with some useful links because they are having a bit of a moment now, and maybe that moment should stay, because the internet is so friggin fickle.
