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2025-02-19 04:39 pm

It's 2009. I'm posting on twitter and updating my livejournal.

I keep forgetting my Dreamwidth is here! I really need to start using this more often.

It really does feel like, not the internet of 2009, that's gone and we'll unfortunately never get it back, but the posting habits of 2009. But instead of getting my news from Twitter and talking about it on LiveJournal, the news is coming from BlueSky and I'm posting and trying to be social on Dreamwidth. I need to see if I can find people from prime LiveJournal days, if they're here. Also need to try to get people from Facebook to migrate to DW so I can nuke my facebook once and for all.

Also I guess I need to check and see if the people who run Dreamwidth are Nazis because that's the kind of thing you have to do these days, fuck me.
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2022-05-02 09:14 am

See, here's the thing --

My biggest problem with Dreamwidth is that only a few people in my livejournal circle made the jump to this platform, and only one of them posts. And that's including me, this is the first DW post I've made in about a year.

BUT, I need to do more posting here, both to get bad into the habit of longform journaling and to get out of the habit of using twitter and facebook. Specifically using facebook for anything other than shortform jokes and keeping an track of friends, and specifically using twitter AT ALL.

EDIT-- What, no, I posted an entry right after New Year's. That feels like forever ago, because time just *drags* now. I can't believe it's only May, there's stuff I did that, thinking about it, it was back in March. It feels like another lifetime.
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2022-01-04 05:22 pm

Goals for the New Year.

Not making New Year's Resolutions, but setting some goals. I got NOTHING accomplished in 2021 because 2021 was hands-down the worst year I have experienced on this earth.

-- Finish all the books on my Goodreads "currently reading" list. Even the ones I put down out of boredom, because in hindsight it's entirely possible what I interpreted as boredom was frustration that reading was starting to feel like a chore, because I didn't realize my eyes were giving out on me and I needed to get reading glasses.

-- Engage in a policy of open, complete honesty. And by that I don't mean stop lying; if anything, I'm going to ramp up my casual/conversational/recreational lying, because I only do that anyway if it's harmless or if it helps. I mean that if someone asks me a question, I'm going to answer it with as close as I know to be the God's honest truth.

So, y'know, be careful what you ask me.

-- **insert gif of Frigga saying "I love you. And eat a salad."**
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2021-05-03 09:37 am

Still Not

There is, for whatever reason, STILL not a Dreamwidth mobile app. Or not one for the iphone, at any rate.

Anyway.
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2019-12-03 09:45 am
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No.

There isn't a Dreamwidth mobile app.

That's unfortunate.
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2019-12-03 08:43 am

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"Since Tumblr's dying and very nearly every other instance of social media is a horrorshow, I guess I better fire this bad boy up."

I posted that a year ago (almost to the day), and since then have done (obviously) absolutely nothing over here. But I was 100% right about every other instance of social media being a horrorshow, so... here I am, for real this time. My facebook experience in and of itself is good because I curate a good crowd over there but I will no longer support it because of what Zuckerberg's doing with it. My Instagram experience is even better, but it's owned by facebook so it goes too. Tumblr is still around but dead on the vine (a billion dollar devaluation! A BILLION DOLLARS!), and almost zero of the people I followed over there are still around, and the ones that are almost never post. Twitter both disgusts me and no-hyperbole-no-exaggeration makes me want to kill myself, but that's largely because I use it mainly as a newsfeed and nothing good has happened in the world for three years now.

Nothing good has happened in my life for three years now either, but that's neither here nor there. Anyway. Is there a Dreamwidth mobile app? All my pictures are on my phone and it'd be great if I could post them from there.
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2018-12-04 12:40 pm

Copy/pasting this from a tumblr post so I don't lose it.

star-anise:

For people who want to use Dreamwidth, but are totally confused about how it works!
What is Dreamwidth?

Dreamwidth is a social media platform founded in 2009 after Strikethrough
It’s made out of a heavily-modified version of Livejournal code
It’s based around producing your own original content, and seeing original content other people post
The site is owned and run by fans and aims to provide creative people with an Internet home

Getting around your account

Your journal is like your “home”. It’s where you keep your stuff. It’s got different parts:
Recent Entries: View your posts in chronological order
(yourusername.dreamwidth.org)
Profile: Your “about” page
(yourusername.dreamwidth.org/profile)
Archive: See your posts as a calendar
(yourusername.dreamwidth.org/archive)
Tags: See all the tags you’ve used and go to their posts
(yourusername.dreamwidth.org/tag)
Memories: Like the “Likes” feature on Tumblr
You also have a “Reading” page (yourusername.dreamwidth.org/read)
This is like your Tumblr dash
It’s where you read entries from your “circle”, the people and communities you’re subscribed to
You can customize it a lot with filters and control who you see when
You also have a “Network” page (yourusername.dreamwidth.org/network)
This is where you see posts from everyone that everyone in your circle subscribes to
It’s a great way to discover new stuff and also learn what awful taste some of your circle members have
Finding new things

Listing an Interest in your profile is like getting listed in the phonebook. This is opt-in, choosing to say, “Yes! I’m really into this thing! Consider me a person who blogs about it!
Content Search is the more powerful way to search through the blog of everyone who’s opted into it, so you can look for everyone who’s posting about a certain thing right now. However, you’ll have to wade through a lot more junk.

Communities are Dreamwidth’s social hubs. They’re places where a lot of people can share content they’re interested in and talk to each other. Unlike Tumblr tags, they’re managed by specific people and have rules, so people behaving badly can get kicked out.
Latest Things is a direct firehose of EVERYTHING PUBLICLY POSTED TO THE SITE, HOMG
Privacy controls?! That’s a thing?!

You get to choose who sees your posts! You can make your posts public, private, or “locked”, which means only people you’ve added to your access list can read them
When you add a new person to your circle you can choose to subscribe to them, to make their posts show up on your Reading page, and/or to grant access, which lets them see your locked posts. You can do one, the other, or both!

Likewise, communities can make posts viewable to members only.
You can also create custom access filters, to allow only some of your access list to see a post.
Banning someone means they cannot leave you comments or send you messages. There are more advanced tweaks to make sure they never show up on your reading page if they post to a community you subscribe to, or remove them from the comments on a post.
Comments

The comments to a post are where the real fun happens.
Comments are sent to the email of whoever you’re replying to. They’re a real conversation. You’re not shouting into the void–you’re talking back directly to the post’s originator and other commenters.
You can edit your comment so long as it hasn’t been replied to, and you can delete your own comments.
The originator of the post, and administrators if it’s a community, can delete threads, or “freeze” them, leaving them intact but preventing anyone from replying to them.

You will add new skills to your resume

Dreamwidth leaves a lot more “backend” open so you can customize your experience to a huge degree. However, this means learning or using coding languages like HTML and CSS
The comment box on entries does not have a built-in text editor, so you will have to add your own HTML if you want to add italic, bold, or links.
There are lots of cheat sheets and informative guides around, like HTML on Dreamwidth and Dreamwidth-specific markup tags
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2018-12-04 12:35 pm

WELP

Since Tumblr's dying and very nearly every other instance of social media is a horrorshow, I guess I better fire this bad boy up.
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2009-05-18 02:00 pm

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I definitely don't need another journal. I started thinking about it after I stared setting this one up, and I have four different livejournals, plus a facebook page, plus a myspace page, plus a tumblr page, plus a twitter feed, plus a plurk timeline. I really don't need anymore of an "online presence".

Or, you know, maybe I do. You never can tell how these things are going to work out.