the news that looks significant to me today in the developing fannish tumblrocalypse situation

§ Cesperanza - Reposting a Post about Decentralized Computing, by request This is an answer from @limblogs and concerns the p2p computing technology I posted links about last week. 

 § greywash - State of the Migration: On fannish archival catastrophes, and what happens next (discussions in comments!) leading to the foundation of post-tumblr fandom , with more discussion; includes mention of the abovementioned p2p/decentralization technologies 

§ Google Docs: Fandom Platform of the Future✨ Requirements Gathering and Features Discussion created by pearwaldorf (this was great reading, but I believe it's temporarily closed to comments to be organized and moved to a better platform to control voting etc) - this is fundamentally a list of important functions for a new fandom platform to have (as opposed to an exploration of technologies/means), but there's a fair bit of assumption that it must be a) centralized & b) for profit 

§ There is a Dec 17 Log-Off Protest planned & as argued here, it can't hurt. Whether such a protest could cause a "loss in revenue" or affect share price to motivate a retraction of the new policy is a separate question (almost certainly not: see When Tumblr Bans Porn, Who Loses & Casey Fiesler's tweet with quote here ) 

§ cfiesler - This is a weird feeling: I literally think that I am the world’s foremost effort on the potential impact of Tumblr banning adult content. From Casey Fiesler, the researcher who published that study about fandom's platform migrations in the past. Contains more links. Most significantly to my mind, a fandom migration requires both a good reason driving people away & a viable alternative destination; she speculates whether Pillowfort could become that (I’m dubious because size/waiting list/paywall)

new beginnings stock-taking & introduction + what i'm watching/reading/thinking/caring about

Hello, new people and fellow rediscoverers of DW!

In light of Tumblr Exodus I thought I would point to the bio in my profile and the blanket permission statement there (though in short: comments from new people are welcome; feel free to follow me; feel free to introduce yourself if we don't know one another; almost nothing is access-locked). For anyone newly subscribing to this blog, you may be interested in the introduction post 10 Things I Assume You Know About Me If You Read My Journal (this was a meme that went around LJ in 2006. I've just had it pinned to my profile & periodically updated)(though in short: I'm 36 and have been in fandom since 2001; waxjism is my wife).

I have been using Tumblr more than DW over the past few years, and am now making an active effort to increase my engagement here. (I need to look for more communities, I suppose.) I used to do 'what am I reading and what am I watching' sort of roundups here, and I haven't done one in ages; therefore, here's a hopefully comprehensive ( Survey of My Fannish and Non-Fandom Interests and Hobbies )