Date: 2020-12-01 10:57 pm (UTC)
bold_seer: (careless)
From: [personal profile] bold_seer
(Hope you don't mind comments on older entries!)

This is an interesting topic. The complicated realities and unevenness of online connections, especially within fandom. Two fans are, in theory, closer to each other than a YT personality and their follower. They're both fans, on the same level. Except that there are many reasons why their relationship might still be uneven - complicated even when there was apparent reciprocity.

Then algorithms, which seem to make popular posts more popular. Bubbles have their use; you might not want anything to do with someone who's the opposite of everything you stand for. But algorithms also don't work. They hide content we could be interested in, if we had the chance. They hide people we could interact with, if there was only somewhere to meet.

the way a lot of people on LiveWidth and other mediums were back in the day Nice coinage, yes.
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