Ah, I'm glad to know it <3 As for 3W4D, I forgot all about it and didn't prepare anything in advance the way I wanted to after last year, so that's why I'm not really participating this time. Which isn't a problem seeing as I get to enjoy your posts as well as some cool things other people have been sharing in the tag as well :)
And yeah, that's true. It's almost ironic how we call it social media when so much of it and the way it's been built seems to lead to anti-social behaviour between its users... I don't fault you for feeling a bit lost on Twitter (or Xitter, as I like to call it). One of my major fandoms also hangs out there but I've deleted my years-old account after the whole "furnishing Musk with data to train his AI machine just by using the site" thing. Can't say I miss it but then my OTP is a rareship and I barely have anything in common with the other fans 90% of the time, haha. I definitely wouldn't feel comfortable sharing any opinions on a microblogging service and sometimes even posting something on Tumblr feels like walking on eggshells -- something that never really happens when posting over here on Dreamwidth. Sure, maybe nobody in my fandoms even knows I exist here but they also don't get to barge in and point fingers at me for saying something they think is "problematic" for no real reason!
Regarding how some actually want algorithms, yes, that's actually scary to think about. All those people complaining about how AO3 doesn't have an algorithm, how they're "forced" to perform a search like that's a bad thing... What sort of hellscape are we living in when people don't want to think for themselves??
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And yeah, that's true. It's almost ironic how we call it social media when so much of it and the way it's been built seems to lead to anti-social behaviour between its users... I don't fault you for feeling a bit lost on Twitter (or Xitter, as I like to call it). One of my major fandoms also hangs out there but I've deleted my years-old account after the whole "furnishing Musk with data to train his AI machine just by using the site" thing. Can't say I miss it but then my OTP is a rareship and I barely have anything in common with the other fans 90% of the time, haha. I definitely wouldn't feel comfortable sharing any opinions on a microblogging service and sometimes even posting something on Tumblr feels like walking on eggshells -- something that never really happens when posting over here on Dreamwidth. Sure, maybe nobody in my fandoms even knows I exist here but they also don't get to barge in and point fingers at me for saying something they think is "problematic" for no real reason!
Regarding how some actually want algorithms, yes, that's actually scary to think about. All those people complaining about how AO3 doesn't have an algorithm, how they're "forced" to perform a search like that's a bad thing... What sort of hellscape are we living in when people don't want to think for themselves??