General wah

[valis2]

I am catching up on the LJ flist, and I'm getting sadder and sadder.

I knew already that the HP fandom would be endangered by the end of the series, but now it's fragmented as well, and I'm really having trouble wrapping my head around having multiple journals. I'm a control freak, as you all know, and I hate the idea of cross-posting, but I also hate the idea of not cross-posting, and I hate the idea of having one main journal, and I hate the idea of having journal-specific entries, and I just feel like I'm watching my internet journaling experience take a nose dive.

Also, I find the idea that HP's parent corporations are going to put the smackdown on slash very chilling. (I can't remember where I read the entry now, damnit.)

*glooms about*

ETA: Oh, and this bit about everyone defriending LJ people so they don't have to read multiple entries? Understandable, but... *glooms even more*

Comments

[sylvadin.livejournal.com]

Relax! Eventually everything will settle down. Those who tend to be involved in the more 'red-flag' issues like graphically depicted artwork or chan or other topics that make the general populace go ?!? are migrating over to IJ. Those who hate big-business bureaucracy are migrating to IJ in protest over 6A's corporate policies and recent treatment of fandom. However, I suspect that most people will stay on LJ for the foreseeable future - it's convenient, it's familiar, and like the real-life situation where one gets in a new landlord who enforces rules of no loud parties after 10pm, most of us tenants tend to learn to adapt rather than go through the effort of migrating to new digs.

Yes, there will be increased crossposting now that we're dealing with multiple journals. But we already have people who crosspost between communities on LJ so what's the real difference?

As to the rumor that the HP parent corporations are going to put the smackdown on slash, it appears to be just that - an unsubstantiated rumor. I saw the comment that I believe you're referring to, and nowhere else in any of the subsequent threads could I find any further information, only lots of wild speculation.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I'm just really wondering about things--wondering where to post, whether to crosspost or not--and it's just going round and round in my logic filter, honestly. I have no idea what to do. Part of me is really squicked by crossposting, but I know that there are people on IJ now who are completely avoiding LJ...ugh.

I felt it in my bones when HBP came out...the Golden Age was coming to an end, and soon. I think fandom has been irrevocably changed by this, some for the better, some for the worse, and I'm just going to cling to the friendships and hope for the best.

I really do hope that they're not going to put the smackdown on, though. That would really mess us up big time!

[artystone.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Honestly I stopped reading the whole "Wahh let's all LEAVE!" stuff early on because it looks like most of the people who are stomping off in a snit are people who do nothing but cause trouble everywhere they go. To most of them I just have to say, "Good riddance, go be crazy somewhere else."