Beyond Selidor

Yeah, same to only using Tumblr for fannish stuff (or at least for non-RL stuff), and yet, as you say, there's still so much politics in Tumblr fandom. (I feel like people on DW are better about putting politics under cut, so I can engage with it when I want and ignore it when I don't want, which is most of the time.) And also in general I feel like because of the short-post/reblog style, it's easy for posters to sort of mix in personal stuff with fandom stuff and hard for me to disassociate the two, whereas I have an easier time doing it when reading my DW feed, which comes in larger chunks?

I think the anxiety a lot of us are feeling is a deliberate strategy on the part of the social network designers, too -- the more engaged you are, the more you post and comment and increase their revenue. Nobody in that setup gets wealthier when we're scrolling through all contented and calm.

Huh, that makes a lot of sense!