Oh boy, I remember when people were crossposting from Twitter, and everyone on LJ HATED it. Just hated it and would not put up with it. Even if you put it behind a cut and tagged it and it was completely avoidable, people still complained voraciously about it. It was one of those things where people just quit doing it because it wasn't worth the vicious sniping you would get.
And there were a lot of high hopes for awhile that this might actually become a fully distributed system where you could be on whichever instance you wanted and still be part of one big community. And indeed, between crossposting clients, and openID, and RSS feeds, which were all getting better all the time, you could mostly still read and interact with people on other sites
Hmmm, I don't personally remember this happening. What I do remember is people keeping comments open on both DW and LJ, but posting to one or the other and crossposting, and the discussions would get split, and then comments got imported, and it was more a question of playing catchup rather than "this person on DW said this in a comment, and this person on LJ is now replying to that," which is my impression of what the goal of the fediverse is. I just don't remember it as working that way at all. I remember people mirroring on IJ, but it was as a backup. Most people I knew used IJ for RP, it wasn't stable enough and not enough people were there for being part of that kind of network.
I do have one (1) person on my DW flist who consistently used ITTT to post from Tumblr mostly to DW, with the result that they had a lot of interaction on Tumblr, and almost none on the DW xposts. When Tumblr went up in flames they went back to mostly posting on DW, and people picked up on that and started commenting more. But from what I could see the perception wasn't so much "Ah, here I can comment on stuff that was originally on Tumblr and keep in touch that way," but more "This is a backup for Tumblr and considered less important than that site." -- Even though the person would respond to comments on the DW posts! I think a lot of people have that perception that if something is a mirror, it's a backup that's not going to get a lot of attention.
What I do see people using ITTT for mostly is notifications across various websites, mostly for PR. But that's as a broadcasting thing.
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Date: 2019-02-03 07:13 pm (UTC)And there were a lot of high hopes for awhile that this might actually become a fully distributed system where you could be on whichever instance you wanted and still be part of one big community. And indeed, between crossposting clients, and openID, and RSS feeds, which were all getting better all the time, you could mostly still read and interact with people on other sites
Hmmm, I don't personally remember this happening. What I do remember is people keeping comments open on both DW and LJ, but posting to one or the other and crossposting, and the discussions would get split, and then comments got imported, and it was more a question of playing catchup rather than "this person on DW said this in a comment, and this person on LJ is now replying to that," which is my impression of what the goal of the fediverse is. I just don't remember it as working that way at all. I remember people mirroring on IJ, but it was as a backup. Most people I knew used IJ for RP, it wasn't stable enough and not enough people were there for being part of that kind of network.
I do have one (1) person on my DW flist who consistently used ITTT to post from Tumblr mostly to DW, with the result that they had a lot of interaction on Tumblr, and almost none on the DW xposts. When Tumblr went up in flames they went back to mostly posting on DW, and people picked up on that and started commenting more. But from what I could see the perception wasn't so much "Ah, here I can comment on stuff that was originally on Tumblr and keep in touch that way," but more "This is a backup for Tumblr and considered less important than that site." -- Even though the person would respond to comments on the DW posts! I think a lot of people have that perception that if something is a mirror, it's a backup that's not going to get a lot of attention.
What I do see people using ITTT for mostly is notifications across various websites, mostly for PR. But that's as a broadcasting thing.