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dolorosa_12I've noticed a lot of people on Dreamwidth have been trying out Imzy as a platform, and have been wondering about trying it out myself. It would be nice to move to the shiny new fannish platform ahead of the charge for once. I'm not sure it's going to take over from Tumblr (although to my mind the day that fandom moves on from Tumblr will be a great day), but I'd like to do what I can to hasten the move to another platform. I guess what I'm saying is, sell Imzy to me, people who are already on there. What do you like about it, and what do you think it does well?
Here's what I like about my current platforms:
Dreamwidth/Livejournal
The strong sense of community
The comment culture (i.e. that comments and discussion are welcome and encouraged)
The ability to form communities devoted to particular interests
The tradition of friending memes (and therefore the ability to keep on meeting new people)
Filtered posting; the ability to lock posts
Tumblr
The ease of posting/sharing images
The ability to lurk when you're not feeling up to a long, involved discussion
What I don't like about Tumblr (the lack of nuance in the conversations that arise there, the impossibility of actually finding community solely through its cumbersome tagging system, the almost active discouragement of communication and discussion, endless scrolling) is probably something I'm never going to completely escape online — if fandom is moving to places like that, clearly a large portion of fandom actually wants that kind of platform — but I'm hoping that Imzy might at least offer something of an alternative.
So, those of you who are early adopters, how are you finding Imzy?
Here's what I like about my current platforms:
Dreamwidth/Livejournal
Tumblr
What I don't like about Tumblr (the lack of nuance in the conversations that arise there, the impossibility of actually finding community solely through its cumbersome tagging system, the almost active discouragement of communication and discussion, endless scrolling) is probably something I'm never going to completely escape online — if fandom is moving to places like that, clearly a large portion of fandom actually wants that kind of platform — but I'm hoping that Imzy might at least offer something of an alternative.
So, those of you who are early adopters, how are you finding Imzy?
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Date: 2016-08-25 09:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-25 10:10 am (UTC)At the moment I don't have an invite code, so everything's a bit moot, really.
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Date: 2016-08-25 10:34 am (UTC)I think invite codes would be pretty easy to get at least, in the last few days I've seen several people from my DW circle offering dozens of them.
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Date: 2016-08-24 12:44 pm (UTC)I'd like all the things you mentioned, too!
It's weird, because I actually see a lot of people complaining that twitter is like that re: tumblr's format that seems to deliberately restrict discussion. So I don't know if that's truly what people want, or if tumblr's just where all the fandom is, so they go there. Probably a little bit of both, especially as I don't think the newer generation of fandom even realizes how discussion oriented fandom was "in the day." I've come across people in anon fandom comms (like the one where we met) who were actually surprised that meta was a thing. For me, that's mostly what I care about. Even when I used to read fanfiction, it was for the speculative stuff, the what-ifs, the backstory, etc. Even the shippy fics I wrote tended to veer in that direction. This is why I don't even really read or write fic anymore, it's... so not like that anymore. Well, Star Wars probably is, but for some reason I can't get into Star Wars fanfic.*
In any case, I'd like Imzy to be like that, but I don't know whether it will be. Apparently you need a code to join, which I think was why DW never really took off - but then, it worked for LJ and Ao3. It didn't for Ello, but it seemed to me (I never actually figured out how to use it, so problem #1 right there) was that it was trying to be both Facebook and pinterest, when so many people already combine the two.
*Maybe I'll put it this way: I like Star Wars very much as a friend, but I don't see myself in a relationship with it. ;)
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Date: 2016-08-26 09:09 pm (UTC)What you say about meta is really interesting, because of course meta does still exist, but it's so different to what I remember of meta back in the day. It seems to focus solely on ships - why one ship is morally superior to another, why such-and-such a ship is abusive, why you should ship this and not that (and that is harmful to teenage girls), and so on. It's tedious. I know there were ship wars back in the day, but they didn't seem to dominate every corner of the conversation in the way they do now.
As far as I can tell, Imzy is like a mix of Tumblr and Reddit (but hopefully without the nasty baggage both those platforms carry), with a focus on community discussion. If people there can make it work, it could be a lot of fun. I'm not going to be around much during the next couple of days, but when I've got more time, I'll do my best to participate and encourage conversation.