Re: the future of fandom?

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I guess this is a good point of reflection for what's still the opening act of 2019:

So, first up. Fandom's not gonna change. we're gonna keep on mucking about with media and creating whatever we want. It's just that it'll be harder for us to find each other:
I really started my interpersonal online presence around 2012, with tumblr, but I do have decently clear memories of the pre-archive, dA and dreamwidth for fandom, myspace for everyone else days. and it kinda feels like we're back to that. We're fragmenting. Really, that isn't an inherently bad thing - tumblr's lack of moderation by community meant that absolutely everything could be taken out of context and lampooned. Purity culture wasn't born on tumblr, but it wasn't an accident it's thrived there. So, I'm very glad to've taken up with communities on ie, discord, where mods like, exist at all. Having a focused conversation is great in a chat or forum style, instead having the entire agora open for yelling. 
but. moving sites means picking my own experience over the relationships I made on tumblr. I'll complain about tumblr till the cows come home, but there are great people there. I'm very glad to have a few familiar faces here, and I look forward to meeting new folks, but that community won't come back in the same way. It's weird to miss a site that still exists, but I've gone through a sort of low-key mourning for it anyway.

What I have heard of as an answer is being called nomadic fandom - networking that can keep you in contact with people regardless of the exact platforms you're all on. Unfortunately, I'm not well versed in how that's being built. I'm hoping it's sort of like collating RSS feeds, but more agile? We'll see. 
I think the most important part of that will be that the fannish community (whatever your fandom or interest happens to be) isn't dependent on any one site. Tumblr's jumped the shark, like LJ did, like fanfic.net did, like youtube does every few seasons. So, decentralization. Owning the servers was an excellent rallying cry for the OTW, but also? I don't want them to have to run the next major social platform, as well as AO3. I'd love to work on the same principles, but not by putting all the pressure on Ms Baker et al. It's too many eggs in one basket. 

I guess I mean I'm willing to give up some of the open doors tumblr fostered, in exchange for stability. Where we congregated on tumblr, I think pods would be a good bet moving forward.