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jenettYikes! I had a sufficiently complex morning that I completely forgot about posting. Sorry!
Topic of the week
I've been seeing a number of discussions around Dreamwidth about different ways people use social media, different customs (and how sometimes those are formed as ways to deal with a particular site's features or bugs.)
How do you use your Dreamwidth account? Has that changed over time? What's important to you? What do you not care so much about? And while we're at it, do you have a favourite feature you don't think enough people know about?
Not interested in that? As always, whatever other topics people want to talk about very welcome. Start a thread, see who joins in.
What I've been up to
Moving is exhausting! I got most of my kitchen unpacked last weekend, then fell over in a pit of exhaustion other than more or less keeping my head above water at work.
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Topic of the week
I've been seeing a number of discussions around Dreamwidth about different ways people use social media, different customs (and how sometimes those are formed as ways to deal with a particular site's features or bugs.)
How do you use your Dreamwidth account? Has that changed over time? What's important to you? What do you not care so much about? And while we're at it, do you have a favourite feature you don't think enough people know about?
Not interested in that? As always, whatever other topics people want to talk about very welcome. Start a thread, see who joins in.
What I've been up to
Moving is exhausting! I got most of my kitchen unpacked last weekend, then fell over in a pit of exhaustion other than more or less keeping my head above water at work.
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Comments are welcome whenever you get a chance - even if that's hours or days later. Feel free to jump into whatever sub-threads intrigue you. More discussion is the point of the salon posts!
Got a question you're trying to sort out, or a thing you'd like to discuss? Lots of thoughtful interesting people with a wide range of interests show up here! Feel free to ask about things you're thinking about or trying to solve, as well as other kinds of chat.
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This is a public post, feel free to encourage other people to drop by, just note the 'if posting anonymously, include a name people can call you in responses' rule.
1) Consider this a conversation in my living room, only with a lot more seating. I reserve the right to redirect, screen, and otherwise moderate stuff, but would vastly prefer not to have to. Keeping conversations SFW is appreciated.
2) If you don't have a DW account or want to post anonymously, please include a name we can call you in this particular post. (You can say AnonymousOne or your favourite colour or whatever. Just something to help keep conversations clear.)
3) If you've got a question or concern, feel free to PM me.
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Date: 2019-01-12 09:46 pm (UTC)I started blogged way before that, on Blogdrive (RIP), and there I WAS into the social aspects of it. There was a circle of blogs I followed and they followed me and we all commented on each other's stuff...and then it slowly fizzled out and died, for various reasons.
I first joined LJ in 2007 but was never really good at keeping up the social thing. I guess after the death of my social blogging at Blogdrive I didn't want to go through all that again. Also, my blogging at Blogdrive had been mostly daily life type stuff, and the social aspect of LJ seemed more fandom-focused, which...interested me, but seemed a walled garden I couldn't crack.
And then as time went on I became bad at blogging at LJ, period, because I was doing more stuff on public blogs via Wordpress.
I started on DW in 2009 (10 year anniversary in May!), and for a while I was crossposting some posts to my LJ. I stopped doing that with the last true implosion of LJ though (when the servers moved to Russia).
In that time, it's been the same sort of focus, primarily -- a place for me to journal. But I've also tried to do the social aspect of it more and more, and I think this year might be the year I don't utterly fail at it. I'm making a true effort now, because the truth is I really love Dreamwidth and after being here for 10 years I feel I should, I don't know, have more of an actual presence here.
I'm also trying to break my FB addiction and DW seems like the only thing that will actually give me a chance at that.
Things I especially love: access lists. They mean I can actually be honest about things here, because if I need to I can uber-filter it down to a very small group of people or even just me. I can't have that same honesty at Facebook, where being honest is just asking people to attack you.
Cut tags. Being able to cut down lengthy posts or, even better, skip right on past most fic in my reading page because I like choosing when to sit down and read some slash porn about characters I ship really improves my experience.
ICONS. I'm lustful for icons. I can't wait until my practicum ends and I start working for real live money so I can continue supporting DW and GET MORE ICONS.