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hua-fei-hua · 1 year ago

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through a series of Wacky Hijinks(tm), i ended up on a livejournal post where someone basically details LiveJournal Social Etiquette (holy grail. to me), and it's actually really interesting to see just how much the concept of tumblr as like, a communal social space, and our modern ideas of "mutual"-hood, and just like, the deeply community-oriented netview (worldview but regarding the internet) of this website seems to echo the environment of lj in its heyday.

like, i've been doing research abt lj out of personal curiosity for quite a while now (if any of you were there, gandalf, pls tell me abt it), and at first it just seemed like such a foreign concept to me. what were the social rules? how did people congregate? how did they form, like, their webs?

but the more i uncover via (not-asking-people-directly-because-if-i-initiate-social-interaction-i-will-wither-into-a-prune) general internet spelunking, the more i've come to realize that like many aspects of humanity, the more things change, the more they will also remain the same. and i just think that's so terribly endearing

#one of the bullet points on this post is like. 'hey. do NOT do custom formatting in your comments just for aesthetics'#(i presume this is referring to using in-line css for formatting text in a comment; like making sure it shows up as a specific color)#but it also talks abt not using special fonts (i presume using unicode) n specifically says a lot of this stuff is ass for screen readers #n other stuff that you hear people discussing a lot here on THIS website n i'm like 'OH. OH THIS WAS A DISCUSSION IN 2008 TOO??'#it also feels like it talks abt some general good advice for being on the internet that we've forgotten these days #like 'hey! sometimes you might be attracting a disproportionate amt of vocal minority. this is a sign you might be a drama locus'#or 'hey! sometimes people will just make throwaway accts n fill it w/nasty shit n follow people to see if it pisses them off'#'just block them and move on' (general 'don't feed the trolls' philosophy)!!#anyway. i guess in a sense it makes me feel like i had a 'good internet upbringing' n i am now a Netizen Of Good Breeding(tm)#being of 'good breeding' was always such a strange phrase to me. why wasn't it ever 'upbringing'. what do genetics have to do with it #ANYWAY. i should seriously write that livejournal au someday. it would fuck so severely and i think it would give some people psychic dmg #to read an author's note that's just like 'hi! i wasn't really on the internet during the lj era but i have a historical interest in it'#'so i did a bunch of research on it but since i'm too awkward to ask around if you were there personally please talk to me!'#and like. idk i guess i just want Other people who entered the internet at around the same age n era as me to get curious abt it too #two years btwn entering Internet Society(tm) can make a huge difference!! it makes me feel insane!!!!#花話

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