I am on Dreamwidth, if only slightly!

[shadowscast]

Okay, I have a Dreamwidth journal. Yay! Same name as always: Shadowscast.

I really like what I've seen of Dreamwidth so far. I like their diversity statement, and how seriously they seem to take it. I like their plan to grow carefully, to stay ad-free, to be truly open-source. I like the careful, thoughtful way they seem to be going about making changes.

Perhaps I'm just a starry-eyed optimist! We shall see.

I'm planning to cross-post to LJ (starting from this entry) and to IJ (once I've got a paid account at Dreamwidth, which I plan to do). For now I won't be turning comments off anywhere, but I expect that sooner or later I will, at least for non-fic entries, because I am one of those people who wants to keep the conversation all in one place (that was always a thing that frustrated me about my split LJ/IJ flist).

But now here's the funny thing: I'll be leaving my circle entirely empty, at least for now!

I'm not adding anyone to my reading list, for now, because:
1) If you're also on my super-sekrit RL flist, then I'm reading you there.
2) (okay now the embarrassing truth comes out) If you're not on my RL flist, then probably I haven't read your journal since, like, forever ago! I'm sorry guys, I just don't have time! When the baby gets older I'll be back, I swear, and then, if this Dreamwidth thing is working out as nicely as I hope, I'll start adding you!

I'm not adding anyone to my access list, for now, because I have no plans to make any locked posts! Thus an access list would be rather redundant. If I ever do decide to lock some posts, then I'll have to look at why I'm doing that and who I want reading them. For now, please don't worry about not having "access": you're not missing a thing!

Comments

[mofic.livejournal.com]

I set up a Dreamwidth account today, but I haven't done anything with it and am too befuddled with Swine Flu Loss of Sleep to even remember how to get back to it.

I think it's probably a really great alternative for people like you, who have a separate fannish and non-fannish journal, since Dreamwidth seems to be aiming to be The Fandom Place. But for people like me, who got lj for fannish purposes but branched out and now have fandom friends, fandom friends with whom I talk about more than fandom, fandom friends who became rl friends, rl friends who it turns out have ljs, relatives and miscellaneous hangers on on one friends list, it's less appealing. Plus I bought a lifetime account or whatever they call it on LJ and I want to live a long time! But I don't want all of fandom to go to DW and leave me all alone...

So I don't know what I'm doing. Sorry for blathering on.

[shadowscast.livejournal.com]

Oh man that's right, you'll be dealing with Swine Flu professionally (and not just fretting about it like the rest of us). Um, good luck with that!

[yourlibrarian]

Popping in -- I think you likely have nothing to worry about. Dreamwidth makes it very easy to crosspost, so it's all the more likely people will keep their journals here (though some have been blocking comments). Also, it's very easy for people set up RSS feeds to Dreamwidth journals, so those not crossposting can just show up on your flist with just the click of a subscription button.

So in the unlikely event that all of fandom migrates there in the next 3 years, it will be easy to stay in touch.

[yourlibrarian]

Yes, the whole subscription list thing is turning into a bit of a headache, because I've no idea who's going to actually use their DW journals vs. just setting up an account, so I don't want to start deleting anyone from anywhere, but I also don't want to end up with duplicate lists.

And I hardly ever lock anything either so it seems simpler to just leave most everyone on access. I'm thinking at some point I may have split content but for now, I'm crossposting everything.

[shadowscast.livejournal.com]

I also don't want to end up with duplicate lists

Yeah, no kidding! (Though the real headache is partly-duplicate flists, which of course I already have between my RL and fannish journals, and which I tend to manage with reading filters—or, currently, by just not reading my shadowscast flist at all, ever.)

[yourlibrarian]

I'm thinking of a professional-academic split from the fannish journal. I think most people don't seem to be interested in those posts anyway, so if no one's reading them on DW that's not much of a change!

[shadowscast.livejournal.com]

I find the academic posts pretty interesting!