Dreamwidth Friends List

[peroxidepirate]

Comment here if you're on Dreamwidth and would like to be friends there! I need to sort out how f-lists work if you crosspost entries -- has anybody played with this?

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[deird1]

Hi! I'm over here...

[girl_called_sun]

And hello!

[opalgirl28.livejournal.com]

This is me: http://boredsvunut.dreamwidth.org/profile

I've tinkered about with crossposting; I think, if you import your LJ to DW, the importer can bring over your friends-list filters.

I'm also fairly sure that if you lock something on DW, it stays locked when crossposted.

[peroxidepirate.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I did the import thing, and about six seconds after I posted this entry, I posted another entry and figured out that the f-list/filters situation is pretty close to idiot proof. So, yay. :)

[girl-called-sun.livejournal.com]

I'm here on Dreamwidth, but I haven't done anything yet, apart from make the account (mainly in response to the whole facbook crossposting malarkey).

[peroxidepirate.livejournal.com]

*nods* Me, too. Well, I imported my journal, anyway, but that's it so far.

[thegraduate09.livejournal.com]

Meeee. http://thegraduate09.dreamwidth.org/

I'm not active there yet, though. Even though I made that a while ago.

[peroxidepirate.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks!

[erimthar.livejournal.com]

I guess a lot of people are moving to Dreamwidth, eh? I guess it's something I should consider, but it looks like paid accounts are pretty much required. Also, I rely on communities for getting my fic seen, and I don't know if DW has the same variety of communities.

In what ways is it better than LJ, exactly?

[peroxidepirate.livejournal.com]

I'm not moving, exactly, but somebody offered up invite codes, so I asked for one. I don't know how you get the invite codes to give out, but if someone gives you one, you can join for free. If I get any, I can let you know.

Right now I'm cross-posting entries to both places (which necessitates starting on the Dreamwidth account, rather than LJ). But my LJ friends page remains my home base, because I really haven't had a chance to poke around DW for comms yet, and I have a paid LJ account until the end of the year (and really like having more-or-less infinite icons!).

The clearest advantage of Dreamwidth, as of right now, is that they allow larger posts. I posted a 10,000 word fic in one entry over there, but the cross-post bounced because of LJ's size limit. Oh, also, they don't make you look at ads, even if you join with an invite code instead of a paid account.

Well... they also don't have the skeezy Facebook cross-post thing. And for the record, I don't mind LJ giving us the option of cross-posting to Facebook. That's no different than Dreamwidth giving the option of cross-posting to LJ. But I mind that I can't opt out of allowing other people to export the comments they make on my LJ entries over to Facebook. If it was just Twitter, I wouldn't mind as much, either; but Facebook is already notoriously negligent about privacy, and they deal in real life names & places. Those are un-mixy things.

So I think that's what prompted a lot of people to look at moving over or cross-posting (certainly it did me). I'm not so much pro-Dreamwidth as I am wary of Livejournal and Facebook. I'm on Facebook partly for professional reasons, unfortunately, so I'm kind of stuck there. Therefore, I'm gonna limit the information I have on Facebook, and I'll make damn sure none of what I post here overlaps into that side of my life, unless I really want it to.

Sorry for the rambliness; I hope I made sense.

[green-maia.livejournal.com]

I'm on Dreamwidth:

http://maia.dreamwidth.org/