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]

The reason for the subscription/access separation was to make it easy for people to read the journals of those who wanted to keep some entries private or for only for a few close friends. The other reason is so people can grant access to someone even if they don't want to read their journal, for whatever reason. You can do the same thing with reading filters here and at DW. It's just more work. If I want to stop reading someone--maybe they're posting a lot on topics that are sensitive to me, or they're obsessed with a fandom I actively dislike--I can just unsubscribe, but leave their access in place. They can still read all of my entries. I always check in periodically. Sometimes I'll resubscribe to people again after a time.

All of my non-fandom entries are locked up there, although I grant access to anyone who asks. My default on LiveJournal is now locked, but again, I grant access to anyone who asks.

Maybe it doesn't feel impersonal to me because I've met new people since I started cross-posting.

I also love your icon. I saw you joined theamericans. I'm two episodes behind. Sigh.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

It's just different ways of doing things I suppose, and a lot of us still on LJ have become a bit set in our ways *g*

I was very pleasantly surprised at how active the comm for The Americans seems to be! I'd always heard that the communities were pretty much dead on DW, but of course that might be changing now anyway, a few biggish comms from LJ have moved over recently

[wendelah1]

Except for xf_book_club, I've never had much luck keeping communities going for very long after a series ends. I did work at it for Fringe for a few years. People move on to other fandoms, plus most people had switched to Tumblr by 2010, which had a negative effect on all of my communities, here as well as at DW.

OT: I'd love to find communities to discuss The Expanse and The Good Place. I'd go anywhere. I don't find personal journals comfortable for that and Tumblr is a joke. But if such places exist anywhere, I haven't found them. Maybe Imzy? Or Reddit (shudders)?

But I'm sure The Americans discussion community will keep going until the end of the final season. The people running it are committed.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

most people had switched to Tumblr by 2010, which had a negative effect on all of my communities

Urgh, tell me about it :( And sadly I think that Reddit is really the only very active message board these days, and maybe AV Club, otherwise I never see much discussion going on anywhere, it's all tumblr and Twitter based. I guess that today's fandom just doesn't have the same attention span for the longer posts and discussion that were once such a thing on LJ

I keep trying with tumblr, but I'm never going to understand why people attempt to have conversations over there

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Oh and I take it that it's not considered that big a deal to unsubscribe and still remain on friendly terms on DW then, do you get a notification about it the way that you do on LJ when you've been defriended?

[wendelah1]

I don't. But I don't get notifications of it on LiveJournal either, unless people make a special point of announcing it.