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A poll for fandom folks who have left Twitter: which platform have you chosen as your new home? "Home" in this case meaning the place you spend the majority of your time and/or share the majority of your fannish thoughts.

Feel free to elaborate on your answer in the replies!

The fandom home poll is officially over, and I found the results quite interesting! I was going to write a thread here about my thoughts, but it turned into a bit of an essay, so if anyone's interested I published a post on my Dreamwidth about it hollowhearts.dreamwidth.org/67

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@hollows Maybe the discussion should be NOT what corporate entity should we cede fandom to, and instead become how can we support federated servers so that we can continue to have free fandoms.

Maybe there should be a foundation to support the infrastructure of federated servers so that we don't feel tempted to go back to corporate instances.

@Rozzychan Oh a foundation is a great idea, I love the idea of something like an OTW supporting federated fandom platforms. I agree very much on coming up with a support plan and I certainly don't want fandom to be centered on any one company's platform. I am all for user run federated fandom spaces, though to some degree I consider the integration of large companies into the fediverse both an inevitability and a necessary evil. 1/2

@Rozzychan There's a large contingent of people who aren't going to vibe with the idea of user-run instances and will remain walled off from the rest of us unless those big sites join the fediverse. Whether or not these are people we should be trying to accomodate is another discussion, I guess. 😅 2/2

@hollows @Rozzychan i feel like if the fediverse continues to grow it is likely it will have the same trajectory as email or hosting - institutional and professionalised instances will develop that could support more general, less tech-savvy users. I think there's a strong case for Masto for fandom right now - I suspect it's one of the strongest use cases, in fact. We hate censorship and are used to collaborating to take ownership of our spaces.

@thene @Rozzychan That's very true, I hadn't considered that but you're right! Professionalized, more user friendly instances do seem to be a likely trajectory. And I agree, Mastodon does feel like a great solution for fandom, though now that the waves of migrations seem to be slowing I assume we'll be starting to see how much of the new population actually sticks around, and whether we're able to maintain enough activity to make Masto an attractive fandom hub.

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@hollows @Rozzychan Agree, I'm esp interested in hearing how it goes for people on single fandom instances for large fandoms - I haven't been in a large fandom since roughly 2002 so it's not my world but it seems like such a good use case from the outside

@thene @hollows
I think we have a bit of a learning curve to go through to optimize these sites for fandom. I have been on mastodon for a year, but only recently have we got the numbers to make an interesting fandom feed for me.

Also, I am having to relearn how to do fandom things like watchalongs. I just now created a pixelfed site for my fan photos.
px.filmfreedom.net/i/web/profi

Also some of the new norms of the site like CWs and alt text for images might bring in new fans.

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