Dreamwidth PSA (and crosspost)

[alias_sqbr]

Thought I'd have a go at crossposting and also give a PSA:

If you want a Dreamwidth account, while you are welcome to join the queue you should also definitely get an OpenID account and validate the email address.

This
(a) Lets you comment, create a Friends reading list and even have icons, the only basic thing you can't do is post blog entries.
(b)Puts you in the running for an invite, and apparently guarantees you one by the 30th (a weekish from now)

For now, if you do get a proper account you can't join it to your OpenID but that functionality apparently is in the works.

nb I do not intend on crossposting much, since that'd just be annoying for people who've friended me both places. I just wanted to try it out :)

Comments

[elaran.livejournal.com]

since that'd just be annoying for people who've friended me both places
hmm i hadn't factored that in.

[alias_sqbr]

It didn't occur to me until someone on both flists crossposted a long post :)

I think if someone crossposts EVERYTHING you can just unsubscribe at dw (but still give them access), and if they only do it very rarely it's not too bad, but if lots of people are going to crosspost a significant proportion of their posts but not all that's going to get Very Annoying.

[elaran.livejournal.com]

yeah, that would be super irritating.

::draws hearts around the ubsubscribe but still grant access function::

[sanguinity]

I was figuring that in another month or so -- once I had a chance to see who was doing what -- I'd be sorting through who were the crossposters and who weren't, and then unsubscribing in one place or the other, accordingly.

[alias_sqbr]

Yes, I think it's going to take until a while after Open Beta for everything to settle into enough of a stable pattern to decide how to set things up with reading lists etc.

[cdave]

What will determine what posts go where?

[alias_sqbr]

To begin with I think I'll ask myself "Am I comfortable posting this at lj?" and if the answer's "no", will post it at dw. But that may change as my dw account develops it's own vibe, set of readers etc. Anything which I think will be interesting to both I'll crosslink, same way as I do with posts I make to communities.

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

The ad-free thing + transparent management certainly explains the attraction of the service (hadn't bothered to look until now). I'm tempted to migrate across but I'd want to somehow take my LJ identity over there "intact" and abandon LJ if I did.

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

Which is apparently possible, so still tempted. "Dreamwidth" is an even worse name than "Livejournal" though.

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I am eternally mystified at how anyone could think either's a good name. And Dreamwidth with its ambiguous abbreviation...

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, although it's hardly "carebearjournal.org", it's all just a bit upbeat for me. I prefer my site names neutral and professional sounding (didn't like "deadjournal" either). "Wordpress" is good, or even "blogger" (though I still object to the term "blog" in some inner chamber of my soul).

[alias_sqbr]

Yeah, and the big cheerful spiral doesn't help.

Not a fan of "InsaneJournal" then? :) (Me neither)

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

Yeah, (c-c-c-c-combo,) on the mailing list when they were discussing what DW points could be called, it was getting sickening - rainbows and raindrops and wishes... :|

[alias_sqbr]

Ahaha. Man. Girliest social networking site ever :)

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

What do you think about the people who are/will be crossposting to LJ, but only allowing comments at DW?

[alias_sqbr]

I understand the logic, and I guess if it comes up I'll defriend them here and add them to my dw reading list. It would be kind of annoying if I was at lj and not dw though.

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

Mm. Someone on my DW readlist is doing this, and though most of her LJ flist are fine using openID, there's at least one of her LJ friends who's upset about this.

I think it makes a bit more sense for essay-style posts, but I don't get why for just journal-style ones.

[alias_sqbr]

I think it depends on how much you don't like the idea of two separate conversations developing in the two sets of comments. I must admit it would irritate me.

[out-fox.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip about OpenId, I just signed up under my fandom blog name.

I hadn't thought about cross posting before. Actually, I keep forgetting that people who aren't in fandom will be migrating to DW.

I only hear about DW from fans and I'm looking forward to starting a fresh fandom blog totally seperate from my old political one.

So I was surprised to see postqueer over there already, it seems a bit beta to migrate a political com.

Assuming here that Fandom Love = [Invite + Icon Squee] > Beta Stage Woe.

[alias_sqbr]

Well maybe the people who run postqueer are also fans :)

Didn't Strikethrough target a lot of LGBT content? (I may be misremembering in the wake of Amazonfaill) I can see that motivating people to leave lj as quickly as possible.

[emma-in-oz.livejournal.com]

What is your dreamwidth name again? Now at the friend adding stage.