Date: 2018-12-12 06:39 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] lb_lee
In a way, I wonder if it's by DESIGN, that you're having trouble coming back. By its very design, Dreamwidth predates the constant-engagement incentivizing of newer social media. Folks around us have said they have a hard time posting here because they feel obligated to make something long or substantial.

And I don't think that's a BAD thing! The REASON Facebook, Twitter, and tumblr are designed for short posts is to make it easier to be there 24/7. It's a very purposeful design decision, to make you want to be there all the time for fear of missing out. Because they know most folks have an easier time (or THINK they have an easier time) digesting lots and lots of little bits than one big one.

So I think maybe one of the reasons DW feels weird is... you've gotten used to these much faster, higher-engagement, higher-stimulation platform. And for us, we couldn't get used to it, which was why we fell off the wagon a lot sooner. Tumblr, Facebook, and twitter are like Red Bull, and Dreamwidth is like... I don't know, tea.

What's sad to me is that if general tendencies in the history of "selling attention" follow, this is probably going to get worse and worse until EVERYONE burns out on it and whiplashes hard. And I'm not sure we've reached that point of total burnout yet. I'm not sure that we're AHEAD of the curve so much as behind it; we can't handle the Red Bull websites.

--Sneak
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