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

[shapinglight]

Have to say I'm baffled by people's view of DW (I don't find it impersonal), and I don't find it particularly onerous trying to keep up with two flists. But I am probably not as pushed for time as some. ;)

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

DW probably isn't all that different from LJ really to be fair, and access and subscribing does sound like a sensible way of doing things when you want to read a strangers DW without them having access to all of your private thoughts. I suppose that it's just what you're used too at the end of the day though, it just doesn't feel as personal to me somehow, and I've felt settled here for so many years that I don't cope well with change!

I'm hoping the whole two flists thing will be easier now that I've removed a few LJ subscriptions anyway, because they'll be two entirely separate entities to catch up with. And I might try cross-posting to DW before the end of the year, I'm not sure what I want to do yet

[shapinglight]

I'm not sure you can crosspost from LJ to DW. I think you can only do it the other way around.