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I feel very rusty about posting to Dreamwidth, and as I'm posting this, I find myself thinking, "Wow, I'm doing this all wrong."

But what I did learn doing some DW clean-up earlier is how absolutely rusty my HTML is, not having had to use it on another social media site in several years. I hadn't realized how much it had decayed until I had to look up whether I was using the correct tag for something I wanted to do.

I'm currently dithering over whether or not to delete my Tumblr come Dec. 17. I don't post original art, so I don't expect to be purged, but also I hate Fan Twitter and I'm not sure people are actually migrating back here/anywhere in particular. I know a lot of fandom stuff has been moving to Discord over the past year or so anyway, but I still don't really "get" fandom Discords (not least... where you find the information on where they are to join them?) so I'm not sure how helpful that is.

I am absolutely relieved at how much slower Dreamwidth is. Even adjusting for the fact that the overall volume is lower, it's just so much less all the time. I remember actually backreading everything on my Tumblr dash back when I first made the switch over, but I haven't done that in probably five years, and now I'm realizing that's something I actually missed about LJ/DW fandom?

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I'm not super into real-time chat, and I find it way harder to keep up with when I don't have a reason to do so (like work). Like, Tumblr is busy, but I can catch up and interact with it on my own terms (or not).

Discord is weirdly high-effort in a way that I don't find with Twitter and Tumblr. I don't understand why, but I don't wike it.

I mostly use Discord for WoW theorycrafting, so it's sort of a searchable FAQ for me, and I have no idea how people use it for fandom aside from the way we used to use fandom IRC channels, which FRANKLY WERE FINE THE WAY THEY WERE GUYS. IRC WAS GOOD, ACTUALLY.