Journaling Revival Challenge!
Feb. 22nd, 2013 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krytellaI see a lot of people on Twitter complain about the lack of community on Tumblr, express sadness that their newer fandoms don't seem to be on LJ or DW, and feel it's hard to escape from content they don't want on Tumblr and Twitter. And this is a wide experience, so it is a problem, and it saddens me to see so many people frustrated.
But we are many! And together we are powerful. And also that one person who you want to get away from on Tumblr probably doesn't have a journal.
Level 1: The Challenge
So here's your challenge. For two weeks, visit the journal site of your choice every day, and every day interact in some way. Ideas for interaction:
1. Comment on someone's post
2. Post some recs for interesting posts, communities, or journals that you think your followers might be interested in.
3. Follow someone new. On LJ this is called "friending," on DW you can add someone to your circle and subscribe to their posts without granting access to your private posts if you don't feel comfortable jumping into "friendship" with a new person.
4. Join the community for a newer fandom you're interested in, even if it doesn't seem active on journals at all.
5. Stop reading someone's journal. I know this sounds a little... negative in comparison to the rest of this post. But it's not. We create our fandom spaces, and we need to give ourselves the freedom to create spaces that make us happy and interested. So if there's someone on your flist whose posts you don't want to be reading, not reading them will make your journal experience happier! To stop reading an LJ without unfriending the person, create a list of users whose posts you do want to read and filter your flist by that list. You can bookmark the filtered page so you don't have to ever go back to the "all friends" view. On DW, you can uncheck "subscribe" on the circle management page without removing someone's access to your private posts or their ability to follow you.
Level 2: Advanced Challenge
Building our community on journal sites.
For those of you who are active in or passionate about a fandom that's mostly on Tumblr or another site.
To unlock your level 2 achievement, do one of these things:
1. If there's no community on your journal site for your fandom, create one!
2. If there is a community, make a post to it. Start a discussion, write some meta, rec some fan works...
Spread the Word
Post this on your journal:
Tumblr, for DW:
Tumblr, for LJ:
Twitter, for DW:
I'm doing the journaling revival challenge! Follow my DW at http://replaceWithYourUserName.dreamwidth.org or join the challenge at http://krytella.dreamwidth.org/24186.html
Want to commit to your challenge? Comment to this post about what you're going to do. If you want other people who share fandoms to find you, write about what fandoms you want to talk about.
But we are many! And together we are powerful. And also that one person who you want to get away from on Tumblr probably doesn't have a journal.
Level 1: The Challenge
So here's your challenge. For two weeks, visit the journal site of your choice every day, and every day interact in some way. Ideas for interaction:
1. Comment on someone's post
2. Post some recs for interesting posts, communities, or journals that you think your followers might be interested in.
3. Follow someone new. On LJ this is called "friending," on DW you can add someone to your circle and subscribe to their posts without granting access to your private posts if you don't feel comfortable jumping into "friendship" with a new person.
4. Join the community for a newer fandom you're interested in, even if it doesn't seem active on journals at all.
5. Stop reading someone's journal. I know this sounds a little... negative in comparison to the rest of this post. But it's not. We create our fandom spaces, and we need to give ourselves the freedom to create spaces that make us happy and interested. So if there's someone on your flist whose posts you don't want to be reading, not reading them will make your journal experience happier! To stop reading an LJ without unfriending the person, create a list of users whose posts you do want to read and filter your flist by that list. You can bookmark the filtered page so you don't have to ever go back to the "all friends" view. On DW, you can uncheck "subscribe" on the circle management page without removing someone's access to your private posts or their ability to follow you.
Level 2: Advanced Challenge
Building our community on journal sites.
For those of you who are active in or passionate about a fandom that's mostly on Tumblr or another site.
To unlock your level 2 achievement, do one of these things:
1. If there's no community on your journal site for your fandom, create one!
2. If there is a community, make a post to it. Start a discussion, write some meta, rec some fan works...
Spread the Word
Post this on your journal:
Tumblr, for DW:
Tumblr, for LJ:
Twitter, for DW:
I'm doing the journaling revival challenge! Follow my DW at http://replaceWithYourUserName.dreamwidth.org or join the challenge at http://krytella.dreamwidth.org/24186.html
Want to commit to your challenge? Comment to this post about what you're going to do. If you want other people who share fandoms to find you, write about what fandoms you want to talk about.
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Date: 2013-02-22 07:03 pm (UTC)I'm in!
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Date: 2013-02-22 07:11 pm (UTC)Re: Level 1, item 5
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