Dreamwidth (and other platforms) Friending Celebration

[dannybailey.livejournal.com]

Now that livejournal is no longer the watering hole that it once was, I've personally moved most of my blogging and activity over to Dreamwidth. There's been a pretty fun resurgence of activity over there in the last few months, so if you haven't been there in a while, you might want to check it out!

Fandom is much more disseminated across various social media platforms, but I would hate to lose track of friends and other Queen's Thief fans. So, in honor of that, I thought it might be nice to have a Dreamwidth/tumblr/twitter/goodreads/etc friending meme. If you're doing fannish stuff on any of these other platforms and you'd like to be added as a friend by other Sounis community members, post a comment with your links. I will definitely follow anyone from this community, since I know you all to be wonderful people with great taste in YA literature.

Here's my deets to get us started:

Find me on:

Dreamwidth: florianschild
Tumblr: florianschild
Goodreads: florianschild
Youtube: Florian
Twitter: Not using
Instagram: Not using

Friend me, and I'll friend you back! I miss seeing Queen's Thief posts in my feed!

<h3>Find me on:</h3> <b>Dreamwidth</b>: <b>Tumblr</b>: <b>Goodreads</b>: <b>Youtube</b>: <b>Twitter</b>: <b>Instagram</b>:

Comments

Re: moving to Dreamwidth?

[ibmiller.livejournal.com]

I would prefer not to move to Dreamwidth. Just to put my voice in there as well.

Re: moving to Dreamwidth?

[freenarnian.livejournal.com]

As someone unfamiliar with Dreamwidth, would you mind me asking why you prefer livejournal? Asking purely out of curiosity, because I've heard talk before of migrations from LJ to Dreamwidth, but never knew what pro vs. cons that entailed.

Re: moving to Dreamwidth?

[ibmiller.livejournal.com]

My resistance to moving is mostly because I like the layouts and community better on Livejournal. Dreamwidth offers a lot of the same experience, but it doesn't feel as fun reading - something about the default fonts.

It's largely inertia on my part.

Re: moving to Dreamwidth?

[freenarnian.livejournal.com]

I can see how little details like that can make a big difference. I definitely enjoy the familiarity of livejournal and understand why it wouldn't translate well onto, say, Tumblr... the formatting of which is designed more with image-sharing in mind, I think, rather than conversation. (Which is how I fear my own Tumblr devolved into another dreaded aesthetics blog--anything beyond re-blogging pictures required too much effort, lol.) Anyways, thanks for enlightening me.

Re: moving to Dreamwidth?

[dannybailey.livejournal.com]

I felt the same way for a while, but I found out that I was able to customize Dreamwidth to resemble the old livejournal look, which is what I prefer anyway. The new livejournal layout (friends feed, login page, etc) is totally awful imo.

As far as community, neither site is as active as livejournal used to be. But I'm starting to feel some momentum on Dreamwidth. People seem to want to get away from micro-blogging and algorithmically-determined news feeds and get back to making real connections based on shared interests. And a lot of that movement seems to be on Dreamwidth.

If you do want to check out Dreamwidth, I'd recommend starting with this post (https://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/38065.html), specifically the last few paragraphs and the comments, which focus on how to get involved in the Dreamwidth community.

Re: moving to Dreamwidth?

[freenarnian.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing this info!