I joined because I wanted something new/different, especially from here. But I don't like the format at all. It's not condusive for interaction and discussion. Plus there are a ton of self centered self absorbed 'look at me' posts << that is their only purpose. Plus a ton of utter crap. But, there are also some beauty and poetry/words if you can find it. No, it's not like FB, to me. I'm rarely active there.
Sadly the old style forums are a thing of the past.. 😔
@Magenta yes I have heard about the format. Too bad they don't improve on that. Do they have art on there? I love to look at art but again, there are glitches in the app and I don't think I would want to interact there, for that reason.
@LadyGrace Mhm, the format is so frustrating. I believe so, although I haven't seen a lot. You can do a search, I think there is at least one group labled "art".
@Magenta Have you thought about LiveJournal? It's a lot quieter than it used to be, but it's still on the go and it still functions largely as it originally did and as a proper blogging/social media site should. All posts display in chronological order, it has simple privacy controls, no algorithms, doesn't show you stuff that's irrelevant or which you haven't asked to see, and it's designed for proper, meaningful communication. It's a mystery to me why people would rather be on garbage sites like FB and Instagram.
@LadyGrace There is so much art on it! It's often about what you watch the most so the algorithm will start to show more of it to you. I have a lot of watercolor paintings in my feed and it's also popular to show the process of how they paint. Just now it showed me this:
@SeekingConnection Hmm I have not. Sounds interesting though, I may check into that. Thank you for the suggestion. I do still frequent tumblr, one of the oldest sites around, because I can find some beautiful and meaningful content there.
