eldabe: Image of canal in Venice (Default)
Oh, right, facebook is a terrible platform too!

I am having a disagreement in a fandom facebook community I joined a few months ago (fandoms withdrawal? Maaaaybe.) And a few articles are being written and posted by community members about something political a fandom-popular writer has said.

I posted saying basically "listen, I would prefer we kept our politics out of our fandom*, and if I'm alone in that, that's fine, but I feel like the community and mod should have a discussion about this."

And the community basically rose up and started saying some really stupid things, but notably, they thought I was only talking about one article that had been posted. (Thus making me a little irrational.)

Um, no, there were at least two. Written by two different community members and posted independently. And I was expecting more, which I was trying to head off.

But when I tried scrolling down to find them both, facebook's algorithm made it frustrated and annoying to find. And then I remembered that I don't have to do this with my life so I haven't responded to any more comments. I'm 90% sure I'm just going to walk away from the community. Quietly, I don't want a fuss, but I don't need this crap in my life.

Gosh, I miss good online platforms. Facebook is horrible for political discussions and nuanced discussions and, you know, ability to find things again. Tumblr is terrible at the same things, mostly.

:(

*I want to clarify that I have NO PROBLEM with some politics in my fandom. Gosh, I wouldn't be half as informed about a lot of subgroups if it hadn't been for fandom and while I'm still no expert, I think that has made me a much better person in general. But these articles weren't inviting discourse and discussion. They were just writer-bashing. Which is fine, whatever, but I COULDN'T GET IT OUT OF MY FEED. And if this nonsense is taking up my feed, I'll walk.

ETA: Oh gosh, now they have to figure out a spoiler policy because there is no cut-tag. GAAH.
eldabe: Image of canal in Venice (Default)
Today’s XKCD is spot-on. The ability to curate and control your own feed should be essential in any social media platform. LJ/DW has a pretty good system in place although some features aren’t exactly well-used. Tumblr has extensions that a lot people use. Twitter doesn’t have a system as far as I can tell, BUT neither does twitter reorganize your feed by some unknown algorithm.

Essentially, Facebook exerts a great amount of control over how you socialize. Which means to me, at least, that it’s a failure of a social media site, isn’t it?

Online communities are so complicated. Interesting, but complicated.

I say, writing this on a small and dying platform. Woot?

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