nathanielbuildsatesseract | Moving Into A Ghost Town (Reply)

Something interesting about Dreamwidth is how much more easily I encounter abandoned accounts compared to on other social websites. Honestly, this place feels more like a cemetery than anything else a lot of the time. That's probably my single biggest hurdle to being more active: it's very difficult to find people to follow who are still posting regularly.

Like, sure, there's plenty of people posting. But if we're trying to find people with similar interests, it can get a lot harder. I don't think I'm the only person who's registered any of the interests I've listed on my profile, but often it's a small number and I'm the only one who's posted in years. Today I added "cosmism" and realized there's only one other account listing that, and they last posted in 2012. So much for finding people who want to talk about that!

The same thing goes when looking at accounts that subscribe or are subscribed to—for the most part, they're pretty quiet. Now, that's often the case on other sites, as well, but the usual way we find new people on sites like Tumblr or Twitter is that their content was shared with us. That doesn't really happen here. If you don't already have an active crew, it can be very quiet.

I still kinda think this is an interesting platform, probably due to some misplaced nostalgia for the internet when I was just a kid lurking with my parents' tower computer, but there's a reason I'm using Tumblr daily and forget to log in here for months at a time. There's just not really anything to see or do here. Does anybody want to set up a Neocities webring?