I've noticed a lot of people on Dreamwidth have been trying out Imzy as a platform, and have been wondering about trying it out myself. It would be nice to move to the shiny new fannish platform ahead of the charge for once. I'm not sure it's going to take over from Tumblr (although to my mind the day that fandom moves on from Tumblr will be a great day), but I'd like to do what I can to hasten the move to another platform. I guess what I'm saying is, sell Imzy to me, people who are already on there. What do you like about it, and what do you think it does well?
Here's what I like about my current platforms:
Dreamwidth/Livejournal
The strong sense of community
The comment culture (i.e. that comments and discussion are welcome and encouraged)
The ability to form communities devoted to particular interests
The tradition of friending memes (and therefore the ability to keep on meeting new people)
Filtered posting; the ability to lock posts
Tumblr
The ease of posting/sharing images
The ability to lurk when you're not feeling up to a long, involved discussion
What I don't like about Tumblr (the lack of nuance in the conversations that arise there, the impossibility of actually finding community solely through its cumbersome tagging system, the almost active discouragement of communication and discussion, endless scrolling) is probably something I'm never going to completely escape online — if fandom is moving to places like that, clearly a large portion of fandom actually wants that kind of platform — but I'm hoping that Imzy might at least offer something of an alternative.
So, those of you who are early adopters, how are you finding Imzy?
Here's what I like about my current platforms:
Dreamwidth/Livejournal
Tumblr
What I don't like about Tumblr (the lack of nuance in the conversations that arise there, the impossibility of actually finding community solely through its cumbersome tagging system, the almost active discouragement of communication and discussion, endless scrolling) is probably something I'm never going to completely escape online — if fandom is moving to places like that, clearly a large portion of fandom actually wants that kind of platform — but I'm hoping that Imzy might at least offer something of an alternative.
So, those of you who are early adopters, how are you finding Imzy?