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

[hamsterwoman]

I had the same problem with mostly duplicate entries with DW, a migration or two ago, so I created a "DW only flist" reading filter, and that seems to work pretty well (...when I remember to check DW at all).

And, yeah, I don't like the "subscription"/"give access" terminology much either. I mean, I do think it's awesome that DW separates those two functions, because there are cases where I do want to do one and not the other... but they tend to be an exception rather than the rule for me, and having the whole framework phrased in such impersonal-sounding terms feels rather uncozy...

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

I never used to bother with DW tbh, but enough people have moved there recently that I've decided it would be worth checking out my reading list over there after I've caught up with LJ. It is going to be a bit annoying having two separate flists to check, so I thought I might as well cut out any cross-posters from DW, and then had a panic that it might be considered rude after we've only just added one another over there! It seems a bit more formal on DW though, so I'm not sure that anyone would even care, but I'm still in the LJ mode I guess where it's always feels like a bit of a rejection when you get "defriended"

And :nods: I used to think it was annoying that you automatically give someone access to your LJ when you might just want to read their entries, but then when DW was created and did separate it all, I found that I really didn't like the idea of making everything more complicated with subscribing and access. It would make me feel like we're all putting out daily newspapers or something :P