Imzy

[dolorosa_12]

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?

Comments

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

I have good discussions with people on Twitter, but the pace at which conversations unfold there (and the fact that you end up having multiple fragmented conversations with several people on aspects of the same topic, all at once) can be really stressful, and I have a rule that I don't go on Twitter at night, as it tends to make me tense.

What you say about meta is really interesting, because of course meta does still exist, but it's so different to what I remember of meta back in the day. It seems to focus solely on ships - why one ship is morally superior to another, why such-and-such a ship is abusive, why you should ship this and not that (and that is harmful to teenage girls), and so on. It's tedious. I know there were ship wars back in the day, but they didn't seem to dominate every corner of the conversation in the way they do now.

As far as I can tell, Imzy is like a mix of Tumblr and Reddit (but hopefully without the nasty baggage both those platforms carry), with a focus on community discussion. If people there can make it work, it could be a lot of fun. I'm not going to be around much during the next couple of days, but when I've got more time, I'll do my best to participate and encourage conversation.