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yo, it's me. Saving the name for now but who knows. In what way is this better than LJ, can anyone tell me?

Thanks C for the invite code, I'm surprised I was the first to reply.

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From:

cesy

(I saw your post on

denise's reading page.)

I like the access/subscribe split, the import tool, the fact that I can try out paid features for free at the moment, and the welcome I got from the dev team when I volunteered to get involved. I also like that they're planning to add a lot of features I've been wanting for ages.

From:

aubrem

Thanks! Is the access/subscribe split different from creating filters as to who can see your posts? I'm having troubles getting my head around how it works. I guess I'll need to just use it a bit in order to figure it out.

A lot of people seem pretty excited about Dreamwidth so I'm guessing the coming features will be good.

Nice to meet you.

From:

cesy

It's basically filters on speed, designed to be clearer and easier to use, without the loaded term "friend". Writers who don't want to be googled can give access to loads of people and just subscribe to the ones they want to read, instead of having to set up a separate filter for their normal friends page. Or people who are really paranoid about locked entries but like to read lots of stuff can do it easily instead of having to set up a filter. Sadly reading filters aren't working properly yet, but I'm told that it's coming "soon".

As far as excitement, I think

rho summed it up quite well:
"To be topical, Dreamwidth is a lot like Obama. There's a lot of hope there, and everyone has high expectations, that it's never going to be able to meet entirely. In both cases, I don't care. Obama won't be a perfect president. Dreamwidth won't be a perfect website. Both of them have high potential for awesome though, and I'm not going to let the things that will inevitably go wrong sour my opinions."

Mind if I subscribe to you? I'm looking forward to making lots of new friends, given this opportunity for a fresh start.

From:

aubrem

Feel free - no permission needed for subscription. I don't know if I'll be posting much though - I'm going to wait and see how this migration plays out I think.

From:

constance

That's tofty to you! :D

From:

aubrem

I bet I could have guessed from your icon alone ...

From:

cordelia_v

I've added you to everything on my journal here, as at LJ. But if you'd like to opt out of the religion filter at this point, no hard feelings at all. We've both moved away from each other in that area, over the last five years (God, has it been almost five years? Wow).

From:

aubrem

I don't read all your religion entries but I do look at some. I still enjoy the Catholic Church the way I always did - beautiful for its history, its art, its ritual, its struggle to ... understand and support us in our humanity? Half of that struggle is as much philosophy as it is theology and that does interest me. You might not be comfortable with me reading your entries though, now that it's clear I'm shifting from agnostic to atheist. I won't be offended if I stop seeing your religion entries show up on my f'list.

On the other hand, down the line, I might find myself particularly wanting to read religious posts - I doubt it, but who knows what the future holds. I do keep an open mind even though I'm starting to speak out more about my atheism.