Maybe it's nostalgia, maybe it's good community design: I wanted to talk a minute to discuss my positive fandom experiences on LiveJournal, and why I miss that space today.
I was very wee when I discovered LJ, but its community format was how I got into PT Star Wars Fandom. +

By 2010 or so LJ was losing sway and Tumblr was taking over, I think due to the combination of the microblogging feed platform like Twitter and the complexity of more in-depth blogging sites. But LiveJournal was like neither of these. It was a blogging platform primarily, +

but it had a unique format for community spaces that I have yet to encounter except in closed format forums. But basically, what I'm rediscovering is that LJ had some features that allowed for separation of interests and communities that allowed for healthy growth. Let's look: +

COMMUNITIES:
When I talk about communities, I mean this literally. Think of Facebook groups, but better. You could watch an open community or you could join. Joining meant that, when you went to post a journal entry to your blog, you could post it to one of your communities! +

Imagine writing a fic or creating a piece of art, and then when you post you have the option of submitting it to the community of your choice. It might be moderated, but it would show up in the feed of members and watchers as coming from the community but submitted by you! +

You can imagine how productive this is for transformative fandom and creators. You get to submit to JUST the people in this group, they can view, comment, etc., and you can respond! Gorgeous!

I really loved how the communities operated. You had contest communities, art communities, anything you wanted was RIGHT THERE. Submitting and moderation was easy. It was easy to find a niche. I lurked on SW_Fanvids and loved it. Take a look: https://sw-fanvids.livejournal.com/ 

These communities could be as isolated or open as they wanted to be, which meant your interests could overlap or be as separate as you liked. Apparently, I was big into Heroes and True Blood when I last used LJ! I had completely forgotten! But that didn't matter because...

FRIENDS AND PRIVACY:
LJ was, at its heart, a blogging platform (hence, journal), but your blog had a lot of options for privacy as well. You had the capacity to LOCK INDIVIDUAL POSTS! That meant you could have a fully private journal, a fully public, or a bit of both. +

(Apparently, I classified myself as "Semi-locked" because I was both.) And that's really helpful for keeping things closer to the vest! I need to have a vent session unrelated to fandom stuff? I can make a locked post that only my approved friends can view! +

I've seen a LOT of bullying here of people just getting in their feelings, and that's fucked up. I like that you can just vent to friends and if you have a fallout, you can rescind friendship and lock them out. That's good for mental health and protecting marginalized people +

LJ gave you both the public and private space. You could view your friend/community posts in a feed similar to those on most traditional blogging platforms/kind of like the TL here. You can check in on friends, your favorite fanart community, read a contest, post a meme, etc. +

Not only did you have communities, which helped fanworks rise to the surface and meet your targeted audience instead of getting lost in the shuffle, you also had your own curated blog space to get lost in. That distance is really healthy, and is the direct antithesis of stan twit

Stan Twit is a single-topic feed about one character, person, thing, etc. LJ specifically allowed you to have multiple facets to your personality without eliminating one of them.
Which brings us to my last point:

PERSONALIZATION:
This one is probably more like, cool features, but there was a lot of personality you could add to your LJ.
You had not only your customizable blog (like tumblr, but cooler), but also a profile page where you could write a blurb about yourself.

This meant listing your OTPs, your NOTPs, your awards, etc. It was a customizable HTML page that listed your friends and communities, too. Super handy resource!
My favorite feature had to be the userpics. 100x100 avatars. You could have like, 10-12 of them. AT ONCE

How, you may ask?
YOU COULD CHANGE THEM FOR EACH POST.
As you're getting ready to submit your post, you choose which userpic you wanted. That meant you could have ONE PER FANDOM.
I usually had fandom/mood ones. And ya, I made all my own, NBD.

But bragging aside (I came in second in an icon contest, ignore me), that sort of customization was KILLER. You got to really dig into your separate fandoms without stepping on others. That meant multishipping was a lot more common because you weren't locked into 1 identity

This is to say: my early fandom experiences were on LJ. I was around 12-13 when I started lurking, 14 when I started posting, and apparently 20 when I stopped. I had such a happier, safer experience there than I ever had on tumblr or twitter.

The blogging capacity was nice, but the communities were exceptional space for art and creativity to thrive.
You don't want to see X ship? Stay away from those communities.

Looking back at SW Fanvids, all ships were fine there, because I think the understanding was if you didn't like it, you just wouldn't watch. All the videos were labeled and tagged, so no one really seemed to fight content they didn't like.
They just...ignored it.

Maybe the grass is greener, but I hated the transition onto to Tumblr. I think the curated community spaces kept down a lot of drama and a lot of fandom rubbernecking.
I would love something like LJ to return so fandoms can create in their own bubble, but I know it's a big ask

that being said:

Anyway, what I'm asking for is more of that community space. I published fic to livejournal, created userpics, and generally felt safe and supported. I had friends suffering really deep personal issues and they kept it separate from their fandom life, but let their friends see.

I liked the communities I had there, and I think a lot of fandom today would be better off if we had a little bit more isolation like that.

(Let's do a mass exodus to LJ, offer still stands)

The way people shit on other fandoms for clout here doesn't work there because...like, no one cares? You wanna bash Kylo on your own blog you do it girl. You're gonna have a shitshow in the comments but w/e. The dogpiling doesn't really happen because you're in YOUR OWN SPACE

If I posted a "Fuck xyz Marvel character post" on my LJ, stans of that character aren't going to flock to defend him. They don't CARE.