Dreamwidth?

[carriemonster]

Do I need to jump on the Dreamwidth bandwagon?
It's seems an awful lot like LJ.
Someone explain to me why I'd need it over LJ.
And a freecode? ;) please.

Comments

[mschaos]

some people are going over as they feel that the folks at LJ are sharing things they shouldn't with the fb ad twitter on comments

dreamwidth is done by the creators of LJ so that is why it has a similar feel

I will email you a code so you can have one at least

[blackavar]

Yes, the FB/Twitter issue is part of it. There are some nicer features and some bugfixes to some longstanding LJ bugs. It's also a smaller place - a few hundred thousand accounts compared to 14 million some odd. No ads at all, even on free accounts, and a business plan to keep it ad-free. (being ad-supported is part of why the LiveTwitFace stuff has been and will keep happening)
As to a code, one's on the way even if you just want to hold your username. It's really easy to import your whole journal, though. I post there and automatically repost at LJ.

[mschaos]

far from l33t my dear

basically LJ wants the moneys and is changing the code so more places might be able to see what you are up to via FB and twitter

that is what the big broohaha is all about

I think

[joanarkham]

Um. So it's totally free and no ads forever? How can that work?

[girlvinyl]

[blackavar]

True to an extent, though that's certainly presented (unsurprisingly, heh.) in an ED-ish way. I'd say that the business model is more "be how LiveJournal was" than "don't be livejournal", though.

I'm not part of fandom, but I haven't presented DW in the way that salacious_pop is claiming. SUP is pushing LJ Inc in a particular direction, with the expected consequences. DW was started in order to not go SUP's direction, and to try to do things the old way. It's different, and better for me. LJ will be better for some.

The thing that is doomed to failure is to approach SUP/LJ Inc thinking that it's ever going to be like LJ used to be. It's a different place, with different people running it. It just happens to have the same name.

[girfan]

I have a Dreamwith account, but never use it. LJ is fine by me.

Also, I'll be in your area next month...

[carriemonster]

aww man!
Pat, Im moving to California next month!