Garret Murray’s thoughts on Flickr resonate with me.The whole herd mentality, everybody doing the same thing, is part of why I choose not to be part of the community. Although I do see the possible merits, for me, the downsides far outweigh them, for instance
- no control over how my photos are displayed (standard flickr layout, and if you scroll down there’s tens of mostly useless “I like that!” ego rubbing comments. Not that it’s bad that people appreciate your work, but, well, I think my ego’s blown up enough, thankyou)
- like Garret mentioned, the weirdass groups stuff going on
After DeviantArt went through all the political turmoil, it’s been a different place, post-Jark. I find that the administration takes itself too seriously, the community is rather strange, and the explosion of the site into the mainstream just brings with it a whole bunch of crap. The company behind it is really going commercial now, what with raising $3.5 million USD of funding from DivX, blah blah, etc. I’m just so disillusioned with it now.
I still have an account though, and a long long time ago, there was a meetup. See if you can spot me.
I need to regain myself. Or rather, re-claim.
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