Why Tumblr can never replace LJ

[yendi]

See this.

More generally, it can't replace LJ, Blogger, Wordpress, Twitter, or even Facebook, because I have never seen a site less suited towards actually having a conversation.

(Note: I'm fine with Tumblr in other contexts, just not for anything that involves interacting with other people. For a social media tool, it's remarkably antisocial.)

Comments

[wednesday]

I think I would be OK with reblogged conversation on Tumblr if the culture didn't encourage losing one's shit over trimming quoted content in the manner of old USENET posts. Reblogs look like USENET to me, and you can even follow the threading in a crude sort of way.