Reading about the Tumblr layoffs last week and everyone madly backing up their blogs, I am wondering if it’s time to go back to an open source community platform like Dreamwidth. I have a very old blog there I haven’t used in a decade and always liked it; the only issue it ever had was low user numbers. But honestly, anything corporate owned is going down the tubes and has been for a while. Meta apps are dead to me because of AI and being owned by a fascist bigot, there was a good reason everyone made a mass exodus of LJ in the mid 2010s, and Discord is trying to go public, which is essentially the death knell for them remaining at all user-centric (things have already gotten worse lately as they prep).
Feels like it may be the time to start leaning heavily again into open-source and fandom-run communities that can’t be turned off or fucked up at the whim of some asshole CEO who wants to line their pockets with a few more dollars.
Plus, because of the internet’s rapid decline into corporate, capitalist suckage, I’ve found myself growing increasingly nostalgic about the olden days of the internet and online fandom (sites like Sugar Quill, WIKTT, Granger Enchanted, and old LJ). I may just act on that impulse.
(I’m on bluesky as well and it seems great but not as good of a platform for community building vs others imo.)
Is anyone else in HP fandom using dreamwidth still?
