Doing pretty good! Are you new to forums in general, or just this place?
Forums in general! Relatively new to the community so this is the first one I've joined
Well this is a great one to join! And welcome!
Forums are kind of a dying breed, but honestly, having a place to do long-form communication and is easy to navigate is something I dearly cling to, since I don't understand Amino (or at least, I am unwilling to learn ahaha) and find Twitter and Tumblr awful for trying to have any real discussion.
Hopefully this place appeals to you too, and that you're able to get whatever you need out of it. c:
Damn, it's been ages since I last joined a forum, especially after the situation with The Forum That Shall Not Be Named! Or maybe I just ran out of stuff to discuss and comment on now?
[Alister] We tend to find ourselves ambivalent towards forums. We fancy the Chicken Smoothie one periodically, but past that have never really dug deep into forum culture. Hoping with a fresh start like this, we get a taste of what older folks on Tumblr keep talkin' about.
Just got up, will be up for work in an hour! Honestly I've never really been active on any forums, so I am excited to see how this goes! :O
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Post by dovewithscales on May 12, 2021 17:33:26 GMT
I've been haunting forums since... shit... 1995? Otherkin forums since 2005. My intro to the community was back when Yahoo Groups seemed like a good place to be.
I like Tumblr for what it is, but it's very... scattered and freeform. It's not good for exchanging reliable information or dispelling misinformation. It's a rumour mill. Forums are good for sharing and finding information on a specific topic and members of a shared community. Anyone can say anything on Tumblr and it's hard to know if you're missing something. Which is how Tumblr gets so many people who don't really understand what it means to be otherkin, but are absolutely convinced that they do.
We're actually not well-versed in forums ourselves, honestly. We've only been active in forums, gosh, the last four or five years? Not long at all in comparison. We really do like their more long-form discussion though. And the fact that they're moderated! Sometimes Tumblr and Twitter feel like free-for-all anarchy, and that can be a little intimidating and frustrating.
We've been active on forums since the 2010s, mostly stuff associated with webcomics and a friends forum that was created after the Brawl in the Family forums shut down. It's honestly our preferred medium for social media because we don't feel like we have to be checking constantly for fear of missing something. It's so much easier to backread on forums, and figure out what's been going on while we were logged off. Tumblr at least doesn't have a character limit and isn't frequented by people we know offline (the horror!) but it's far from perfect and almost impossible to keep discussions organized. We've been posting essays there, but we're thinking about making a personal website for that specifically so they don't get lost in the ether.
Post by dovewithscales on May 12, 2021 17:55:23 GMT
It's a double edged sword. Tumblr and Twitter having no meaningful moderation means no petty mods to silence people they personally disagree with, but also means people can spread blatant lies or hateful garbage without consequence. Forums are so much friendlier and more trustworthy if they have good mods, and utterly miserable if they have bad mods.
never got on to tumblr or twitter. I didn’t even know Amino exist until recently!
I went straight from forum for a year or two to discord, and where I found my first foray into the Otherkin community. This is both in a way nostalgic yet exciting!
We're actually not well-versed in forums ourselves, honestly. We've only been active in forums, gosh, the last four or five years? Not long at all in comparison. We really do like their more long-form discussion though. And the fact that they're moderated! Sometimes Tumblr and Twitter feel like free-for-all anarchy, and that can be a little intimidating and frustrating.
I have no idea how many times I've gotten frustrated in tumblr cause you watch a thread just totally de-rail from the originial topic and there's no real way to bring the discussion back. so happy to have this forum for sure! thank you for this!!