#like yes those issues kinda always existed but the structure and speed of the platform exacerbates it in extreme ways
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admittedly this is "old man yells at clouds" energy, but I think it sucks that modern fandom often only conceives of community in the form of discord servers
#logically I understand why it's become preferred: scalability#ease of use and the network effect#but it severely advantages certain styles and dispositions where if you can't manage or perform you're gonna probably have a bad time#like yes those issues kinda always existed but the structure and speed of the platform exacerbates it in extreme ways#every time I see that a creators event requires joining a discord server I die a little inside#lol but not like I have answers because most people are not going back to dreamwidth for lj-styled communities#just out here mourning the loss of threaded async conversations#it is what it is#🧂🧂🧂
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