Turn Any Fandom Into a Sanctuary
Turn Any FandomInto a Sanctuary Néné Lindennenelinden@gmail.comNenelinden.com
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What’re we here to do?
What’re we here to do? We will talk about the importance of tailoring your fandom experience online and how to do it. We’ll explore the best native features of popular fannish websites (AO3, Fanfiction.net, Tumblr, and Twitter), and recommend some userscripts, browser extensions, and software.
Table of contents
Table of contents 01 Why is it important to tailor your fannish user experience online? 02 03 04 AO3, FFnet, Tumblr, Twitter How to find and install helpful extensions, userscripts, and software. We’ll go shopping! What have you found?!What’s worked, what hasn’t worked? The importance Native Features Extensions, Userscripts, and Software Discussion!
The importance of curation
The importance of curation 01 “I’m tough enough”
A lot of us are VERY online
A lot of us are VERY online For many of us, ignoring what’s happening on the internet is ignoring a very real dimension of life, and ignorance is not bliss.
Curating your online experience is a modern survival skill
Finding spaces that feel like a dinner conversation is a very tall order. Think about what relational foundations go into having quality dinner times. Curating your online experience is a modern survival skill
Embrace the Diversity Pt 1
Accept that people are always going to do things you don’t like or approve of (or even that you worry about).Also consider the 1% Theory in conjunction with the general understanding that a vast minority of fans actually create content or interact with each other at all. (@otdderamin on twitter with great insight on this here) Embrace the Diversity Pt 1
Embrace the Diversity Pt 2
Don't trust any community (whether it’s DW, LJ, Discord, Reddit, Mastodon, etc.) to have the same curation as you even when we're working on the same principles. All communities will probably host content or discussion that you don't condone. There are tools to help you further curate for yourself what a comm’s mods won’t.The flip side: small fandoms and their limited number of communities may be inadvertently (or deliberately, idk) suppressing fans with unpopular takes Embrace the Diversity Pt 2
Responsible Curation
Being mindful of your mental health: acknowledge you just sustained psychic damage for what you just saw or readandValuing your own time: you probably don’t actually want to get into an argument with the internet stranger that posted it Responsible Curation
Fans are Tool-Using Animals
Highly recommend watching Maciej Cegłowski give his talk ‘Fan is a Tool-Using Animal’ September 6, 2013. The transcript is here on his website too though. This talk was brilliant because even though the tools he created and mentions about in 2013 that fans utilized, he wasn’t wrong: much like we do with our fandoms, we find tools and rework them to fit our needs.Some interesting up & coming platforms include Pillowfort, Bobaboard, and Fanexus. I still love Dreamwidth a lot though, not gonna lie. Fans are Tool-Using Animals
Native Features
Native Features 02 Before installing tools for your fave platforms, explore the helpful native features first
Native Features - AO3
AO3’s search works page is amazing●Search Works page: ‘any field’ and/or the ‘search within results’ field●Download buttons and e-readers●Blocking and Muting○Blocking: preventing certain users from interacting with you○Muting: excluding content by certain users from your personal Archive experience Native Features - AO3
Native Features - AO3
●The Anonymous collection allows you to submit a work where you’re not linked or credited but when you’re logged in, it’s still under your control (unlike Orphaning)●AO3’s Help & Info for Users tag for their news articles includes the invaluable○Hidden Search Operators cheatsheet●The control settings of a fic after you’ve posted, blocking or deleting certain comments, also you can lock your fic to only AO3 users Native Features - AO3
Native Features - FF.net
We’re going to explore their database for a hot second and just go over some best practices.●Shipping brackets are only reliable for recent fandoms because they didn’t exist up until a few years ago, same with certain genres●Very old fics have disclaimers that FFnet required them to add or else you’d be blocked from submitting●Favorites = kudos; unlike AO3, a high comment count also indicates a quality fic ime Native Features - FF.net
Native Features - FF.net
●Best way to go down the rabbit hole on this platform is by finding an author you love who favorites stories●Lots of fantastic devs have created tools (or /gasp/ algorithms 😂) though - we’ll talk about them soon Native Features - FF.net
Native Features - Tumblr
Native Features - Tumblr ●Filter Tags ●Filter Post Content●Blocking users Filtering What You Don’t Like ●NSFW Content●Turning off “Best Stuff First”●Look at Tabs in Tumblr Labs Finding What You Like Noodle on the controls you have over people replying to your posts and anon asks
Native Features - Twitter
Do you know what helps you make your point a bit clear?Lists like this one:●Muting people, words, and hashtags●Block●Don’t Show Retweets●Controlling who can see your tweets●Controlling who can reply to your tweets●Selecting ‘I don’t want to see x person’s likes’ or ‘I don’t want to see more of this person’ Native Features - Twitter
Extensions, Userscripts, Software
Extensions, Userscripts, Software 03 Oh my!
First I want to demo how to shop for extensions
Chrome ExtensionsFirefox Add-OnsSafari ExtensionsSome Recs:Firefox Multi-Account ContainersHTTPS Everywhere First I want to demo how to shop for extensions
Next, how to get userscripts
Userscript Extensions:For Chrome, Opera, and Safari: Tampermonkey or ViolentMonkeyFor Firefox: GreasemonkeySome interesting background on these userscript extensions here ‘Hacker News’ Next, how to get userscripts
Shop!
Now, shop for userscripts! ●Browse in r/userscripts on Reddit●GreasyFork.org●OpenUserJS●UserStyles.org●UserStyles.world Shop!
AO3’s Unofficial Tools
Link to AO3’s Unofficial Tools page here from 2018The AO3 Collection A Guide to Coding and FanworksAO3: Fic's Style, Blacklist, Bookmarks AO3 Primary Ship Search AO3 Savior AO3’s Unofficial Tools
FFnet’s Unofficial Tools
Flipper! User manual introduction: Flipper is a tool that automates finding people with favourite lists similar to yours and creates a merged stream of fanfics from those lists ranked by how relevant they are to your tastes. Flipper also lets you filter that stream like a search engine and exclude fanfics/fandoms from search results permanently. It was created with a goal of “to see only stuff that might be interesting, and see it exactly once”To download, https://github.com/Zeks/flipper/releases To read more, Zeks posted about this software in r/HPFanfiction: https://redd.it/8xstw0 FFnet’s Unofficial Tools
FFnet’s Unofficial Tools
A contemporary of Flipper’s, there’s Socrates: a discord bot that recommends FF.net fanfiction to read. Read more about it from the dev where they posted in r/NarutoFanfiction hereFanfiction.net Unwanted Result Filter Fanfiction Organizer FFnet’s Unofficial Tools
Tumblr’s Unofficial Tools
To be honest, Tumblr’s updated native filtering abilities have been amazing for me and I uninstalled any extensions/userscripts for them iirc, but there’s the major ones to check out are:XKitTumblr SaviorTumblr Filtering+ Tumblr’s Unofficial Tools Twitter’s Unofficial Tools Better TwitterTwitter Mass Edits
A Couple More Suggestions
A Couple More Suggestions Best tutorial for fans using Calibre to store and sort fanfiction you’ve downloaded here “Turn any websites into desktop apps, explore thousands of exclusive apps, organize apps with spaces, switch between multiple accounts” Calibre, e-book management WebCatalog
Where to keep up with the news?
●Following your favorite developers and/or nonprofits that create online tools●Reddit○r/Productivity○r/sideproject○r/internetisbeautiful●.io and/or .ai websites - googling trick: (site:.ai OR site:.io) Where to keep up with the news?
Thank you!
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