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[capribornio]

It's hella interesting to follow a massive fandom exodus. Back in the times where LJ was popular, I was already in fandom, but I disliked its format, so I usually just... googled "(fandom I was into at the moment) forums" and it never failed me. So even though I've been on the internet since '07, it's the first exodus I see firsthand.

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[kitewithfish]

It's certainly interesting times to be a fan! I was on LJ the last time around, and honestly I don't know if it was as dramatic that time. Maybe people were trying to eek it out longer, maybe I was just in communities that were more coy about explicit content and so they escaped the banhammer, or maybe LJ was just less up-front about their end game, but there's an immediacy to the Tumblr flight that wasn't really there for LJ.

Then again, maybe we just got faster at doing it since a lot of us are doing it for the second or third time, or can rely on the collected wisdom of older fans on when to bail?

[capribornio]

For everything I've seen for people I follow on tumblr, nah, tumblr staff is messing things up way faster than what happened with LJ. The 17th day time limit was unexpected amd waay too soon.

[elendraug]

I think it's a matter of scale. With LJ you could also tell when a journal was gone: the username was crossed out, hence "strikethrough," so the blogs that were missing were visibly obvious. Tumblr is doing a lot of banning, deleting, and other shit in the shadows so nobody knows what's going on. Nothing is cut and dry and the deadline is imposing a sense of panic that's kind of unprecedented. FFN gave everybody a month to back up their NC-17 content in 2002. Tumblr is deleting a lot more, faster, with policies that are clear as mud.