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Title was hard for me to grok, but the article is great. Where are the fandom communities today?
by cyounkins 5y ago
Title was hard for me to grok, but the article is great. Where are the fandom communities today?
- TuringTest 5y agoKilled by the walled gardens, where you're supposed to admire the flowers cultivated by the employees but you are not allowed to set up your own farm.
- omnicognate 5y agoYes, it was taken over by people like the Lucasfilm representative quoted: > We've been very clear all along on where we draw the line. We love our fans, we want them to have fun. But if in fact somebody is using our characters to create a story unto itself, that's not in the spirit of what we think fandom is about. > Fandom is about celebrating the story the way it is. Shudder. Brilliant article, kind of depressing in light of what's happened since. I've always taken a view that if someone's built something people value and they choose to sell out that's entirely up to them, I'd have done the same, no moral judgement. This has me questioning that a bit, when it comes to social phenomena. If you built the tech but your users made it into the thing they value, you have some sort of moral obligation not to let it be destroyed, don't you?
- wiredfool 5y agoAo3 is still around
- sersi 5y agoAo3, fanfic.net (even though a lot of fans really dislike the site now), spacebattles, dreamwith, sufficient velocity and reddit as a discovery channel to find all of those. It didn't die yet :)
- skybrian 5y agoThey don't seem too hard to find starting from Reddit and following the links. Or at least, there is plenty of archived fan fiction to read.