Imzy - the new kid on the block

[selenay]

I've been playing around this morning with a new service that seems to be pitching itself as the new place for communities, particularly fandom ones: Imzy.

It doesn't seem to be particularly friendly for personal blogs like this--they're doable but awkward--but there are already a ton of communities there and I'm guessing they'll get more active as membership increases. I've already spotted a couple of comms that I recognise from LJ days, and I think it's going to be much easier to build communities than Tumblr has been.

I've got 5 invites available, if anyone wants to PM me their email address. There's a comm for femslash (Femslash Frivolity) that's already bigger than I expected, a slash comm, and plenty of pairing and fandom specific comms. Cross your fingers that it works? I've missed the old LJ community days and DW has never quite taken off the same way.

Imzy seems to be very responsive to requests for features and fandom is one of the potential default interests, so I'm hesitantly hopeful that it may be the next big fandom platform.

(If anyone is already on Imzy and has some comms to rec, throw them into the comments!)

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[fyrdrakken]

Well, I've created an Imzy account (also fyrdrakken there) but I don't know how much time I'll spend fiddling with it. I only turn on the desktop one day a week and I'm trying to cut back on the amount of time I spend fiddling with my phone.

[selenay]

Yeah, I can see it might not be the most useful for you. I'm hoping they make an iPad app available soon - the iPhone one is in beta, so it should be appearing soon, but I use my IPad for this stuff more often than not. I only have my desktop on once or twice a week, too, which is partially why I've been so lazy about actually updating Dreamwidth and other things.

[fyrdrakken]

Ironically, they developed some fairly decent Android apps that work with LiveJournal (and even allow me to post straight to Dreamwidth with crossposting to LJ) after the platform stopped being my primary online social network. And the Tumblr app is so crochety I rarely use it. Facebook has become my main online social network -- ironically, since I only got the account to keep track of a handful of people, and I have such a small friends group it's easy to stay on top of. If I weren't trying to cut back on my phone time I'd be stepping up my Twitter usage.