the browsing part of tumblr makes it very easy to sit back and be passive
You are soo right! I never really thought about it this way. But yeah, looking at all the stuff eats so much time and it rarely inspires me to contribute to the fandom myself - since I'm not on tumblr it's hard to leave comments to specific entries and get into a conversation and share the love... Yeah, passive that's how I get when I'm browsing there.
But that just means most people get shuffled aside.
You are right. I think the community model (like here on dw and LJ) is better for discovering works from people you'd otherwise never get to know about. But if you subsribe to a comm you get all sorts of entries all nicely collected and I'd like to think everyone is given a chance.
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You are soo right! I never really thought about it this way. But yeah, looking at all the stuff eats so much time and it rarely inspires me to contribute to the fandom myself - since I'm not on tumblr it's hard to leave comments to specific entries and get into a conversation and share the love... Yeah, passive that's how I get when I'm browsing there.
But that just means most people get shuffled aside.
You are right. I think the community model (like here on dw and LJ) is better for discovering works from people you'd otherwise never get to know about. But if you subsribe to a comm you get all sorts of entries all nicely collected and I'd like to think everyone is given a chance.