Dreamwidth - anyone else thinking about jumping ship?

[strangetomato]

I've been checking out Dreamwidth a little lately, and I'm really considering moving over there once it opens up to the public (April 30). Some major pluses are the "reading page" instead of the "friends" list, which has always been reminiscent of grade five girl gangs at best (even just the new name is far better, but it also separates "friends only" access and the things you want to follow into two distinct things- THANK YOU!) and this amazing diversity statement. It seems to take everything that's good about livejournal and fix everything that sucks. As it looks right now, I'll be switching.

Is anyone else considering this?

Comments

[leskuh.livejournal.com]

Well, i'd definitely keep updated over there too, but I'd probably keep my own posts in LJ or, like I said, post to both DW and LJ. I've been here for over four years and I'm really comfortable with LJ and I generally like the design of things here.

Also, I totally don't mind the kind of wonky friend system. I'm actually in this weird camp that I'd love to friend people, but don't want to watch their shit instead of the other way where you just want to watch their shit and not feel like you need to be their buddy.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I haven't been here long enough to be that set in my ways. I'd miss some of the design options, sure, but I'd expect Dreamwidth to offer something similar.

Yes, but the new system would let you choose. What do you do now? Friend, but block their posts from your flist?

I just don't need the people I'm following and the people who can read my private stuff to be one and the same, you know? Livejournal as a whole seems kinda touchy about friending and defriending too. It's something I try to avoid, which leads me to friending precious few people (aside from some eager early friending). I'd feel like a whole lot less of an asshole if it wasn't called "friending."

[leskuh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm pretty well settled here. As long as it doesn't explode/implode/whatever I probably won't be going anywhere. And if it does die out, I might just stick to DA for awhile. I dunno.

also, i don't like that DW is red. LJ's blue is so much softer and purty.

I mean, uhhhhh...

Mostly I just don't friend people if I think their journal is full of too much spam/boring junk. I dunno, just because the word 'friend' is used, doesn't mean I really think of it that way anyway. I like friending people, but I don't care if they do the same and I've never felt obligated to add someone because they added me.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Well, it was nice knowing you, I guess.

See, the system for livejournal is just so flawed. Maybe it's a fundamental flaw with "friendship" in general, but there you go. It's hard to unfriend people even though you really want to read all their spam/TMI/twitter posts/ It's nothing against them, but that stuff is not for everyone.

[leskuh.livejournal.com]

:(

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Sorry. That was mean. I'll try to keep in touch.

[leskuh.livejournal.com]

Like I said, I'd still follow the story if you moved it. And I might end up crossposting there too, because I am still a bit nervous that one day LJ will just explode for good, so I'd like to have somewhere to jump to, if that happens. But I can be sort of lazy, so I don't know if I'll actually end up doing that. XD

I just, I don't like having a lot of sites to worry about? I just got a twitter today and have already pretty much decided to never use it. I've got LJ, DA and Facebook and that's about all I need really.

I don't know. :\

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

It seems to have a lot of things you can do to set it up to follow your livejournal sites too. It's pretty compatible. I'm going to see how all that goes. I really like the idea of supporting something Open Source, so if it works with livejournal, it would be better to me than staying here (and I could still sort of "be here" too).

Coming back to this after sleeping on it, I'm not sure if I'll make the switch completely. You make a lot of good points about familiarity and design. I'd have to be pretty happy with dreamwidth to switch completely (and I still have the paid account here for a while).

You signed up for Twitter? XD I actually signed up for that WAY back when it first appeared, but I didn't see the point of a whole community based around those status updates from MSN and Facebook. What's the point? I guess it's a little like texting? I don't get that either...