I really, really miss live journal. Is there anywhere online with that kind of feeling/community, but also, not dead?
Once upon a time before the strikethroughs and the Russian acquisition and all that, I joined livejournal as a total newbie. Within days I'd joined communities related to my interests, found discussions to participate in, had other people interacting with me in a friendly way in a way that encouraged more interactions with the same person in the future, not ephemeral drive-by interactions. I was rapidly fully immersed and connected.
This used to exist in a lot of places, I feel, (like deviantart used to have a thriving community, I made lots of friend on neopets of all places, there were fan forums for games I liked where I made friends...)
It seems to me like all this is gone now, or, I just don't know where to find it. Communities I've joined, like tumblr, twitter, reddit, are faster paced, shallower interactions, and just unfriendly feeling. I can join for several months and still not really feel like I'm a part of the place, that anyone would notice if I was gone. Places like Instagram or twitter seem to require lengthy strategies to get the hang of and lots of marketing yourself. Places like discord are super fast paced chat that's hard to catch up on.
All the places I used to like that I've checked on seem pretty dead.
So where is the "old" Internet nowadays? Has it just gone extinct? Or are there corners it's still hiding in, and if so where can I join and what do I need to know to make it work? |
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