I feel like a lot of fandom (especially now as opposed to 15 years ago?) is fairly decentralized even if it is a community.
I don't do tumblr and twitter, precisely because of this problem, but I think the issue is that on those platforms, fandom community is the opposite of decentralized. It's almost impossible in the infrastructure of the platform to have a conversation about a fandom topic without anyone who sees it being able to participate, including people you don't want to talk to.
But what if they're behaving politely but have "the wrong" beliefs?
What about them? I'm not required to hang out with people just because they're being polite, right?
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I don't do tumblr and twitter, precisely because of this problem, but I think the issue is that on those platforms, fandom community is the opposite of decentralized. It's almost impossible in the infrastructure of the platform to have a conversation about a fandom topic without anyone who sees it being able to participate, including people you don't want to talk to.
But what if they're behaving politely but have "the wrong" beliefs?
What about them? I'm not required to hang out with people just because they're being polite, right?