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solarbirdOkay, I posted this a couple of places, but! In response to the Livejournal TOS, I have like 400% cleaned up and dusted off my Dreamwidth account, which hasn’t even been idle, I’ve even been originating posts there, but still. It’s all shiny and buffed now.
Basically fuck yeah http://solarbird.dreamwidth.org is what I’m saying.
It is freakish to be on an LJ-style site and see stuff just… happening everywhere. Do you know how long it’s been since I said “jfc my friendslist is busy”? DO YOU? Okay, about two hours, but I mean before that.
I went and played a short round of Overwatch at 11:30pm. When I came back there were like five new posts. And a bunch of comments. And two friends requests. From strangers. Which were not bots.
I wrote a Fascist Watch newsletter starting around midnight. More new posts. Another friends request. Comments.
It’s not 2004 anymore, but it sure as hell isn’t 2015 either.
Basically, I think what’s happening is that all the scattered people who were still actually using LJ, plus all the people who weren’t but were kind of serious about going back to it at some point, are the ones actually migrating. And they’re all going to the same place, and they’re all looking for everybody else moving over. (Particularly in this community, which was set up when all this started happening.)
One thing I’ve said many times in running shows: an overstuffed smaller room completely beats a half-empty larger room. And what I mean is: for energy. Of the crowd, of the show.
Dreamwidth is smaller than LJ. Post-migration Dreamwidth – even including the active people there already – will most likely still be smaller than LJ was even four months ago. At least, on the Latin-character-set side.
But it’s a smaller room. You look out, you don’t see lots of empty seats and tweet repost botjournals. You see people trying to figure out where they are, and get set up. And going, “..uh… hi!”
It’d be hilarious if the long-considered (and oft-mocked) Livejournal revival actually happened – but on Dreamwidth. And entirely and only because Livejournal finally augured itself in.
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Date: 2017-04-07 03:48 pm (UTC)It totally, totally would be.
I know that, for me, I've been missing the long-ago days of journaling where everyone who had you friended read you. Facebook still is the dominant social media, but with how their algorithms are, you're not guaranteed to reach every one of your friends if you make a post. So you really have no control over who you're reaching. On sites like DW, you're going to be seen if someone has you on their reading list. It's really nice knowing that your visibility isn't being controlled by computer algorithms, but by you and the actual people that want to interact with you.
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Date: 2017-04-07 05:04 pm (UTC)Maybe the world's just moving towards a more superficial type of "friendship" and I haven't caught up with the times yet. But if that's the case, I'd rather fucking be Forever Alone. Give me a small handful of friends who are there through thick and thin over 500 friends who will bail on me as soon as I'm "inconvenient" any day. I'm pretty fucking sure that the love and care that leads to a "thick and thin" friendship is better for the world as a whole. People aren't toys you get to throw aside as soon as they bore you or become inconvenient.
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Date: 2017-04-07 05:18 pm (UTC)I do like Tumblr tho', even if 'discussion' is kind of difficult. (Not impossible. Just harder.) But then, Tumblr is a ... third? generation imageboard and I do have a visual arts degree, so there y'are.
Plus it's super-fandom-heavy in ways that I like, and that's cool. Once upon a time, before it was all neo-nazi fuckheads, 4chan was still terrible but was also the humour generator of the internet. Tumblr replaced it as that last part, and is heavily antifa on top of that. So, yeah, winning there. XD
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Date: 2017-04-07 09:02 pm (UTC)Tumblr has its benefits. I follow a few Tumblrs, but I directly go to them 'cuz the interface blows goats. XD I also think that Tumblr tends to get more black and white thinking going on, which can be probably attributed to the young age of the people there, which tends to make me shy away.
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Date: 2017-04-07 05:09 pm (UTC)(I know there's a word for it, but I can't fucking brain ATM.)
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Date: 2017-04-08 03:17 am (UTC)When you actually have to write something, people actually do. But a lot less often.
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Date: 2017-04-09 02:56 pm (UTC)I get wanting to repost some things, but it honestly seems like other social media platforms are focused on reposting things. I have limited time and I really don't want to have to scroll through 50 reposts of the same shit until I get to the 2 new posts I want to see. There's very little stuff I want to see multiple times, tyvm.
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Date: 2017-04-09 09:21 pm (UTC)I turn 40 Saturday. I've earned this cane and lawn and picket fence. I'll sit here and bitch about the young'uns and tell the kids to get off my damn lawn until the day I die. XDD
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Date: 2017-04-09 07:37 am (UTC)W00t for new connections! Hello!