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So I've heard some mutterings from people on the old Friends' List about what Dreamwidth is and what their plans are for this new and shiny thing, so I thought I should make my own informative post about what the hell I'm doing and why.
For those of you who have never heard of Dreamwidth, read this. It made me feel all squishy inside (reason number 1 why I got interested in Dreamwidth). It's a little old, and more of a statement of intent than where we are now. But I think it sums things up really nicely, and also they seem to be following through.
Things that I really like about Dreamwidth (currently in theory because I haven't really dicked around with it enough yet):
- They don't have a friends list. They have a Reading List and a feature to grant access to your posts to other users. This is so much awesome, and also really addresses the terrible terminology issue of the modern internet. I have lots of people on Facebook who are not my friends, and that is lame.
- There are no ads and they promise not to put ads in place, unless they really have to. And they will ask us first.
- This seems like an organization that I actually want to support by getting a paid account. I'm not doing so until I get my finances worked out, but I'm reasonably certain that I will in the future.
- I'm not sure how they work yet, but I know that there is a feature somewhere that allows a Dreamwidth user to cross-post to their LJ, and also a feature which allows me to read LJs on my Dreamwidth Reading List. So Awesome.
So here is my plan:
I haven't really had time to move my stuff over to Dreamwidth yet or play around over there as much as I would like. But I think I will move myself primarily over to Dreamwidth instead of sticking around on LJ. However - I will continue to cross-post once I figure out how that works, and I will continue to read your LJ if you don't move to DW. I'll let you guys know how quickly (or slowly) this process takes, since my life is vaguely hectic - it might not even get done until after I get back from Europe.
So for those of you already on Dreamwidth. I am aderam.dreamwidth.org! And I'm going to be moving over there - it just might take a while. And for those of you who are staying here or are still undecided - I'm moving over there but will keep in touch I promise.
And those are my thoughts. I hope they were/are helpful to all of you lovelys.
In other news I hung out all afternoon with E and it was really awesome. We've both been so busy lately that we haven't had the chance to just sit and talk in a long while, so that was really great.
*is happy*
For those of you who have never heard of Dreamwidth, read this. It made me feel all squishy inside (reason number 1 why I got interested in Dreamwidth). It's a little old, and more of a statement of intent than where we are now. But I think it sums things up really nicely, and also they seem to be following through.
Things that I really like about Dreamwidth (currently in theory because I haven't really dicked around with it enough yet):
- They don't have a friends list. They have a Reading List and a feature to grant access to your posts to other users. This is so much awesome, and also really addresses the terrible terminology issue of the modern internet. I have lots of people on Facebook who are not my friends, and that is lame.
- There are no ads and they promise not to put ads in place, unless they really have to. And they will ask us first.
- This seems like an organization that I actually want to support by getting a paid account. I'm not doing so until I get my finances worked out, but I'm reasonably certain that I will in the future.
- I'm not sure how they work yet, but I know that there is a feature somewhere that allows a Dreamwidth user to cross-post to their LJ, and also a feature which allows me to read LJs on my Dreamwidth Reading List. So Awesome.
So here is my plan:
I haven't really had time to move my stuff over to Dreamwidth yet or play around over there as much as I would like. But I think I will move myself primarily over to Dreamwidth instead of sticking around on LJ. However - I will continue to cross-post once I figure out how that works, and I will continue to read your LJ if you don't move to DW. I'll let you guys know how quickly (or slowly) this process takes, since my life is vaguely hectic - it might not even get done until after I get back from Europe.
So for those of you already on Dreamwidth. I am aderam.dreamwidth.org! And I'm going to be moving over there - it just might take a while. And for those of you who are staying here or are still undecided - I'm moving over there but will keep in touch I promise.
And those are my thoughts. I hope they were/are helpful to all of you lovelys.
In other news I hung out all afternoon with E and it was really awesome. We've both been so busy lately that we haven't had the chance to just sit and talk in a long while, so that was really great.
*is happy*
