Yes. That! And like you, I'm part of the problem. I think, though, the echo chamber had been developing on DW before Tumblr, the if enough people say the same thing and claim that they are morally right, it's very hard to go against that. Except, on DW you still had the choice to complicate things, to draw attention to side issues, whereas on Tumblr it's RIGHT or WRONG!!!
(I think the best example may be the "reblog if you thing X is horrid" memes. Like, it's a bit like "When did you stop beating your wife?" You can't engage with it in any way that doesn't assert the OP's superiority in weird ways.
I can't do twitter. I tried (I have three twitters to prove I really did :) I feel very left out of fannish convo because of that. In a way, the current archive cum tumblr cum twitter combo has made me more lurkerish than anything since my very early mailing list days. And it sucks! But I'm too tired most of the time to be the change I want to see (and when I try, I get this weird noone's reading me thing, where I post something and then days or weeks later it gets found by my flist as if I hadn't blogged about it...like that happened several times lately and makes me not wanna even try any more...) <- wow, I had no idea I was this whiny and bitter... lol at myself :)
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Date: 2014-05-04 03:11 am (UTC)(I think the best example may be the "reblog if you thing X is horrid" memes. Like, it's a bit like "When did you stop beating your wife?" You can't engage with it in any way that doesn't assert the OP's superiority in weird ways.
I can't do twitter. I tried (I have three twitters to prove I really did :) I feel very left out of fannish convo because of that. In a way, the current archive cum tumblr cum twitter combo has made me more lurkerish than anything since my very early mailing list days. And it sucks! But I'm too tired most of the time to be the change I want to see (and when I try, I get this weird noone's reading me thing, where I post something and then days or weeks later it gets found by my flist as if I hadn't blogged about it...like that happened several times lately and makes me not wanna even try any more...) <- wow, I had no idea I was this whiny and bitter... lol at myself :)