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i have a whole lot of thoughts about tagging and whatnot that i should write up sometime but one particular bit feels prescient so i'm gonna drop it on its own in brief:
we need communities, groups that can be self-moderated in some fashion, where "moderate" means deciding what to exclude but also what to _in_clude. "everything for everyone" is still a very twitter approach but maybe livejournal had some good ideas
yeah i think for twitter they were too little too late, but the idea of themed spaces seemed nice tbh. hashtags just don't feel the same for whatever reason (probably this is mostly a ui problem, i think)
tags as community have been kinda poisoned for me for like a decade. people on tumblr still fill the floraverse tag with garbage and there is absolutely no recourse except for every interested party to individually block all of them. this is even ostensibly against the rules but nothing has ever been done about it
This is what I've been thinking too. While it wouldn't solve everything, I think it could help, for some of the reasons AtomicThumbs talked about here: https://cohost.org/atomicthumbs/post/1585993-an-observation-on-po
Personally I've never used LiveJournal, but I have used other sites with comm features, and being able to just boot something that doesn't fit the space? Highly recommend it. Far preferably to a global feed where anybody can chuck whatever garbage at you and the most you can do about it is beg people to please not.
When I see a site like this treat itself as a purposeful community instead of general purpose social media, I usually end up thinking "I think y'all really just want a forum."
This post further makes me think that people really just want forums.
(As they should, forums are great.)
LJ groups were theoretically amazing although in practice they tended to also be drama magnets of a different sort. But yeah, it's definitely better than the firehose of Everything we've ended up with on the Internet.
I only like algorithmic timelines in that they allow at least some level of curation based on what you might actually want to see. Being able to self-curate would be so much better.
ETA: This is the one thing I like about Reddit. Most of Reddit is a trash fire but some of the subreddits are pretty okay.
As fluffy says LJ communities may have been drama magnets, at least that drama was... contained? As opposed to being made into public spectacle and concern.
I never used LJ communities (and probably for the best), but I appreciate their existence for those that want that fuzzy collectivity beyond just their Friends List. For me, I'll go to separate websites for those things. (Forums, preferably.)
