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Hm, well, even statistically speaking, it looks like dreamwidth really IS the best place for fandom.

I happened across this page on feedly.com, which appears to automatically aggregate information--in this case, the "Best Fandom Blogs and Websites." In addition to results from AO3 and a few from lj, as well as a couple of independent blogs, 8 of the top 20 results were from dreamwidth! Woot!!

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I really love dreamwidth as a platform. It offers just about everything I could want from a fandom blog site. Between that and knowing the folks in charge are firmly dedicated to providing a place to host fannish content, dw is feeling like a really nice place to have made my fandom home.

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hamsterwoman

Hm, well, even statistically speaking, it looks like dreamwidth really IS the best place for fandom.

Hee!

I'm honestly surprised by LJ still being significantly represented in that top 20!

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brightly_lit

Yeah! I just had a look on lj yesterday, and the amount of engagement seemed about the same as here, but very much on the decline there, whereas here, it seems to be holding steady or increasing.

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yourlibrarian

That is definitely a curious set of results. It seems to be less a matter of popular blogs than accounts that have RSS feeds subscribed to via feedly (because AO3 clearly is not a blog) which are classified as fandom ones.

So what that tells me is that fans who use feedly are primarily interested in staying up to date with LJ-diaspora people and events. Particularly strange are the AO3 tag feeds at the end. I'm baffled as to how these accounts get ranked since some with fewer followers are higher up on the list than some with more. Clint/Darcy is most definitely not a more popular pairing than Derek/Stiles!

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vriddy

Good point! The subset of people who know what RSS feeds are, and of platforms that still support RSS nowadays!

AO3 tag-wise, personally I'm way more likely to follow a RSS feed for my smaller, rarer ships (and that's what I do with my Dreamwidth feeds) because I don't check the tags as often (or forget altogether). My reading page (and myself!) would feel totally overwhelmed following the tags for the big ships! And because there's something new every day anyway, I already check there regularly without a feed. So I can kind of understand the pattern, even if people with different feed collections/categories probably set up better systems than I do, haha.

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yourlibrarian

Yeah, feeds are excellent for that. Because even on AO3 a rare ship might have a new work once every few months. And you're right -- an active ship will mean a number of big updates a day.

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brightly_lit

Indeed! They claim it's all AI, and if you look at the criteria they seem to be using along the bottom of each entry, Clint/Darcy has much higher 'relevance' than Derek/Stiles--which makes no sense, but I dunno, maybe they used certain tags that made it seem more relevant.

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yourlibrarian

Mysterious.

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vriddy

It certainly is a comfy spot :D

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brightly_lit

It is. :-)

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abject_reptile

Perhaps that says more about the demographic that uses Feedly and about the nature of the sites that people want to read via Feedly than it does about where the fandom is most active. As far as I can see from my current fandom position, Tumblr still has the top spot.