This is fascinating

[a_candle_for_sherlock]

It's like...BLOGGING blogging. Tumblr is what happens when every form of social media interaction build a city together. You can explore it forever, find niche shops and wild clubs and cliquish parties, stay an anonymous people-watcher forever or put yourself out there and find best friends for life. The crowds are always shifting; you don't know who you'll run into, who's watching you, who'll jump in on your conversation--you could get lucky or very unlucky. It's an endless metropolis.

This feels more like a college campus. We know who's here, more or less, and who’s in our clubs and classes, and where to find the literary arguments and the theater kids' hangouts, and we're sitting around each others' dorm rooms, talking about our feelings and the things we like. I like it.

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[dogandmonkeyshow]

DW (and LJ and IJ before it) are Tumblr without the algorithms throwing content at you: you have to find the content yourself. Which is work, yes, but also means you have a lot more control over what you see and who sees you. There are pros and cons to each. I think Tumblr is easier when you're new to a fandom; the interactions are shallow but broad, which is what you want until you find your tribe(s). But DW is much better for real conversations rather than standing on a rooftop and shouting to all and sundry. Assuming that's what you want, of course.

Welcome to online fandom v2.0.

[a_candle_for_sherlock]

Sounds spot on to me! Interestingly I’ve mostly avoided tag searching and recommended content on tumblr in favor of just following the friends of friends, so the way I interact with this platform is almost identical. The fact that the majority of my dash over there is art and photography is the major difference.