I am still digging through my old posts to see if I can find earlier discussions of newsletters and linking. I did volunteer on several fandom newsletters. In none of them, did we ever ask permission to link to a public post. And no one ever asked me to remove a link...I suspect if they had I would have told them to lock their post and would then have left the link up with a note [post now locked].
I know that our vidding newsletter was boosted to the vidding community which still has almost 2000 fans. The metafandom newsletter on LJ (not updated since 2011) still has 2000 followers and of course this does not count the number of people who reposted specific links they read in the newsletters to their own blogs. LJ fandom did have a "head in the sand" mentality as to the wider non-fandom world, but we also knew that friendslock was the only way to prevent our entries from showing up in someone else's blog.
I feel for the younger fans who never had the luxury of the illusion that they were invisible.
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Date: 2019-01-29 05:05 am (UTC)I know that our vidding newsletter was boosted to the vidding community which still has almost 2000 fans. The metafandom newsletter on LJ (not updated since 2011) still has 2000 followers and of course this does not count the number of people who reposted specific links they read in the newsletters to their own blogs. LJ fandom did have a "head in the sand" mentality as to the wider non-fandom world, but we also knew that friendslock was the only way to prevent our entries from showing up in someone else's blog.
I feel for the younger fans who never had the luxury of the illusion that they were invisible.