Dreamwidth
Apr. 30th, 2009 07:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jadesfire[Um, this is flattering myself but stuff turns up in unexpected places so just in case: this post mentions fandom but is really about me, so please no link to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
metafandom, thanks.]
I know I've spammed everyone today, and I promise to be quieter tomorow, but with Dreamwidth going into open beta* tonight, I wanted to get this posted.
*BETA=not everything will work. Join the getting_started comm if you're not sure what's a bug and what's working just not in the way you expected
It occurs to me that I haven't actually done anything with my Dreamwidth account since I got it, save importing my entries. To be honest, the closed beta has been a little too buggy for me, with my complete lack of technical know-how. Things I want to do, like changing the style of my journal, don't really work yet, and things like setting up a properly organised place for my fic, I haven't had time for.
I don't know if I'll get a paid account, although probably not yet. I don't know who I'll follow. I have trouble deciding who I am from one day to the next, let alone doing complicated things like this. But I like Dreamwidth's approach to their business, I like their diversity statement, the efforts they're going to to make the site accessible and the general attitude of the project. If I can afford to support it, I will. That may or may not involve cross-posting, separating out interests, flicking from one site to another and generally complicating my life. That's my choice and I'm okay with that.
It's interesting to see how people approach Dreamwidth and their 'Circle Policy' (the equivalent of a Friending Policy on LJ). My own approach will remain much the same, and is based on the Yes, Prime Minister school of policy making:
"But those are topics on which the government plans to have no policy! Our policy is not to have a policy!"
As you can probably tell from the above, I hate tying myself down to one statement (yes, I'm a P, deal with it) or way of doing things. I know that there has been considerable drama about Dreamwidth in some fandoms, and across Livejournal in general. From my perspective, at least half the problem seems to be no one knows what's going to happen, and that makes everyone edgy. But things change and shift and move and always have done and always will do. Dreamwidth is *not* a fannish journal service (like, say, Journalfen), and fandom is not a monolith. It's more like a jelly (jello ;)) - colourful, entertaining, often sweet, and liable to go splat.
So yes, I have a DW account and therefore will have invite codes. There are some folks that wants them and some that don't care, and some who might want them if they're going spare because like me, they're interested but undecided. I don't think they're going to be too hard to come by, and if you really, really have to have one desperately, register an OpenID before midnight or drop into this comm where people will be sharing them. For me, for now, it's just nice to have somewhere to back-up my journal that makes importing simple. Who knows, maybe one day I'll even get my fic archive organised
*waits for hysterical laughter*
I do know I'm biased though, because although my main interaction is here on LJ, it's not necessarily the stuff that's the most personally significant. That would be the postcards I sent a bunch of you from Morocco, or the stuffed animals I get through the post, or the hand-drawn cards, or the care packages, or the flailing email when I'm struggling to write or the favours you do me or the private messages or the arrangements to meet up or the disappointment that we can't or the secret projects we work on to reveal to the world later. They're the things that make the strongest impact on me, and they're not LJ-dependant. LJ facilitates them, but if everything goes dark over here, I still know where a heck of a lot of you live.
Actually, thanks to Google street view? I can see your house from here ;)
metafandom, thanks.]I know I've spammed everyone today, and I promise to be quieter tomorow, but with Dreamwidth going into open beta* tonight, I wanted to get this posted.
*BETA=not everything will work. Join the getting_started comm if you're not sure what's a bug and what's working just not in the way you expected
It occurs to me that I haven't actually done anything with my Dreamwidth account since I got it, save importing my entries. To be honest, the closed beta has been a little too buggy for me, with my complete lack of technical know-how. Things I want to do, like changing the style of my journal, don't really work yet, and things like setting up a properly organised place for my fic, I haven't had time for.
I don't know if I'll get a paid account, although probably not yet. I don't know who I'll follow. I have trouble deciding who I am from one day to the next, let alone doing complicated things like this. But I like Dreamwidth's approach to their business, I like their diversity statement, the efforts they're going to to make the site accessible and the general attitude of the project. If I can afford to support it, I will. That may or may not involve cross-posting, separating out interests, flicking from one site to another and generally complicating my life. That's my choice and I'm okay with that.
It's interesting to see how people approach Dreamwidth and their 'Circle Policy' (the equivalent of a Friending Policy on LJ). My own approach will remain much the same, and is based on the Yes, Prime Minister school of policy making:
"But those are topics on which the government plans to have no policy! Our policy is not to have a policy!"
As you can probably tell from the above, I hate tying myself down to one statement (yes, I'm a P, deal with it) or way of doing things. I know that there has been considerable drama about Dreamwidth in some fandoms, and across Livejournal in general. From my perspective, at least half the problem seems to be no one knows what's going to happen, and that makes everyone edgy. But things change and shift and move and always have done and always will do. Dreamwidth is *not* a fannish journal service (like, say, Journalfen), and fandom is not a monolith. It's more like a jelly (jello ;)) - colourful, entertaining, often sweet, and liable to go splat.
So yes, I have a DW account and therefore will have invite codes. There are some folks that wants them and some that don't care, and some who might want them if they're going spare because like me, they're interested but undecided. I don't think they're going to be too hard to come by, and if you really, really have to have one desperately, register an OpenID before midnight or drop into this comm where people will be sharing them. For me, for now, it's just nice to have somewhere to back-up my journal that makes importing simple. Who knows, maybe one day I'll even get my fic archive organised
*waits for hysterical laughter*
I do know I'm biased though, because although my main interaction is here on LJ, it's not necessarily the stuff that's the most personally significant. That would be the postcards I sent a bunch of you from Morocco, or the stuffed animals I get through the post, or the hand-drawn cards, or the care packages, or the flailing email when I'm struggling to write or the favours you do me or the private messages or the arrangements to meet up or the disappointment that we can't or the secret projects we work on to reveal to the world later. They're the things that make the strongest impact on me, and they're not LJ-dependant. LJ facilitates them, but if everything goes dark over here, I still know where a heck of a lot of you live.
Actually, thanks to Google street view? I can see your house from here ;)
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Date: 2009-04-30 06:42 pm (UTC)I adore both Yes Minister and Prime Minister, and can more or less recite whole episodes off by heart - I plan to use them when I run out of "Round the Horne" quotes for my regular posts ;)
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Date: 2009-04-30 06:45 pm (UTC)