I wonder how the rise of popularity of Tumblr and the decline of communities on journalling platforms is related. A few years ago to find new people in the same fandom and to talk with them I searched for that fandom's comm. Today there are fewer/less active comms (in my perception; not sure if there really are more anon/kinkmemes or if I just didn't know them before) and to find people to talk about a new fandom more often I have to go to their personal journals, which feels like a higher entry barrier. It may also have something to do with the rise of AO3's popularity: fic announcement comms are less necessary than they were when most fic was on LJ.
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I wonder how the rise of popularity of Tumblr and the decline of communities on journalling platforms is related. A few years ago to find new people in the same fandom and to talk with them I searched for that fandom's comm. Today there are fewer/less active comms (in my perception; not sure if there really are more anon/kinkmemes or if I just didn't know them before) and to find people to talk about a new fandom more often I have to go to their personal journals, which feels like a higher entry barrier.
It may also have something to do with the rise of AO3's popularity: fic announcement comms are less necessary than they were when most fic was on LJ.