"The ongoing debate about Tumblr vs Livejournal is like a fan with a hammer arguing with a fan with.

[morgandawn]

Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1LUVDjM at September 02, 2015 at 11:03AM

“The ongoing debate about Tumblr vs Livejournal is like a fan with a hammer arguing with a fan with screwdriver over who is better at building a waterbed.” ~xlorp (via meeedeee)

subtleaccordions said: and it also repeats every single argument raised in platform vs platform for the last twenty years… *groans*

Nods in agreement. Of course that it is like every other previous platform debate sometimes obscures the fact that we should be debating how the technology platforms work, which are better suited for X purpose, why we might want to invest in something different, and the ways that the platforms are changing how we interact with one another. Are these changes something we want to embrace? Resist? Ignore and get back to writing more MPREG RPS?   Or how about discussing who owns the platforms that we’ve adopted and whether their interests are aligned with ours? 

The fact is,  we often cannot even get to these issues because we keep getting stuck in that binary: X Good. Y Bad. 

Well I am here to tell you: no one is sleeping in that waterbed until we put the damn tools down and start thinking.

Tags:fandom meta, livejournal, tumblr, how does one respond to a comment on tumblr, I had to reblog my own post to add a response to subtleaccordions, DWCrosspost

Tumblr post (this is likely a reblog, and may have more pictures over there)

Comments

[minim_calibre]

There's an extension in XKit/New XKit that will let you reply via your activity page.

(Pretty sure it's not baked into the Tumblr code itself. Been so long since I've run Tumblr without functionality-enhancing extensions.)

[xenacryst]

Well, no. People will sleep in it, and fuck in it, and do all manner of things in it. And then be surprised and angry when they discover they're wet.

[everbright]

We're all sort of missing the forest for the trees, aren't we?