I set up a Dreamwidth account today, but I haven't done anything with it and am too befuddled with Swine Flu Loss of Sleep to even remember how to get back to it.
I think it's probably a really great alternative for people like you, who have a separate fannish and non-fannish journal, since Dreamwidth seems to be aiming to be The Fandom Place. But for people like me, who got lj for fannish purposes but branched out and now have fandom friends, fandom friends with whom I talk about more than fandom, fandom friends who became rl friends, rl friends who it turns out have ljs, relatives and miscellaneous hangers on on one friends list, it's less appealing. Plus I bought a lifetime account or whatever they call it on LJ and I want to live a long time! But I don't want all of fandom to go to DW and leave me all alone...
So I don't know what I'm doing. Sorry for blathering on.
Popping in -- I think you likely have nothing to worry about. Dreamwidth makes it very easy to crosspost, so it's all the more likely people will keep their journals here (though some have been blocking comments). Also, it's very easy for people set up RSS feeds to Dreamwidth journals, so those not crossposting can just show up on your flist with just the click of a subscription button.
So in the unlikely event that all of fandom migrates there in the next 3 years, it will be easy to stay in touch.
Yes, the whole subscription list thing is turning into a bit of a headache, because I've no idea who's going to actually use their DW journals vs. just setting up an account, so I don't want to start deleting anyone from anywhere, but I also don't want to end up with duplicate lists.
And I hardly ever lock anything either so it seems simpler to just leave most everyone on access. I'm thinking at some point I may have split content but for now, I'm crossposting everything.
Yeah, no kidding! (Though the real headache is partly-duplicate flists, which of course I already have between my RL and fannish journals, and which I tend to manage with reading filters-or, currently, by just not reading my shadowscast flist at all, ever.)
I'm thinking of a professional-academic split from the fannish journal. I think most people don't seem to be interested in those posts anyway, so if no one's reading them on DW that's not much of a change!
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I think it's probably a really great alternative for people like you, who have a separate fannish and non-fannish journal, since Dreamwidth seems to be aiming to be The Fandom Place. But for people like me, who got lj for fannish purposes but branched out and now have fandom friends, fandom friends with whom I talk about more than fandom, fandom friends who became rl friends, rl friends who it turns out have ljs, relatives and miscellaneous hangers on on one friends list, it's less appealing. Plus I bought a lifetime account or whatever they call it on LJ and I want to live a long time! But I don't want all of fandom to go to DW and leave me all alone...
So I don't know what I'm doing. Sorry for blathering on.
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So in the unlikely event that all of fandom migrates there in the next 3 years, it will be easy to stay in touch.
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And I hardly ever lock anything either so it seems simpler to just leave most everyone on access. I'm thinking at some point I may have split content but for now, I'm crossposting everything.
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Yeah, no kidding! (Though the real headache is partly-duplicate flists, which of course I already have between my RL and fannish journals, and which I tend to manage with reading filters-or, currently, by just not reading my shadowscast flist at all, ever.)
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