Dreamwidth rambling

[frelling_tralk]

Er I hope this doesn't cause any offense, but today I actually unsubscribed from quite a few of the DW accounts that I first added when we were creating them as LJ back-ups. All of those accounts still have mutual access, but I decided that I want to start to try and keep up with my DW flist as well (or "reading list" I guess) now that so many people have left for DW, and at the moment I find that I'm mostly just reading the same entries again that I've already read on LJ, so I've unsubscribed to friends that I'm already in touch with on LJ

For the moment I won't be cross-posting and using my own DW, but I am going to try and keep up with my "subscriptions" over there (is it just me, or is DW awfully impersonal??), and read through it after I've read my flist

Comments

[wendelah1]

I'm not very technically minded either but I know DW was designed to do that, just the way it was designed for cross-posting, in order to make it easier for people to maintain ties to both communities. I have, since 2009.

For people who, for example, lost their fandom communities during strike-through, DW provided a safe haven. Losing comment subject lines, another of LJ's so-called improvements, made it harder to have discussions, and impossible to do a RP community on LiveJournal. I'm sure that's why failfandomanon moved to DW. Dreamwidth is a safe space for LGBT fans. It's a safe space for political discussion. I'm grateful it exists for the sake of the thousands of Russians who moved their accounts this year.

And there are no ads on DW. I have a permanent account here so I don't see the ads but I know they're everywhere.