A very merry unbirthday to you
May. 1st, 2011 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pixelOk so, I keep seeing this thing, and I'm going to speak briefly, and then shut up about it. Also, this is not angry, this is vaguely sad/frustrated.
SO. My journal is only on dreamwidth. And that was a sacrifice, and I don't want any kudos for that or anything, I'm just saying that to make it clear, I'm on this side of this particular equation. I read some things on LJ still, I make comments and link my fic on LJ, but no actual content goes there.
SO. When people on LJ are all 'well if enough people move to dw, I will go there' I want to scream: YOU ARE THE REVOLUTION! There is never going to be some magic light that goes on when there are 'enough' people on dw to make it 'worth it'. It's people, individually, one by one, deciding to post, and be excited, and use the site, that's what makes a difference, and to be honest, I love it here. I love the features, I love the people, I love the admins. I love the culture. Dreamwidth is a fantastic place, because people decided that they weren't waiting, they were just going for it.
So thank you to everyone who is here, who loves Dreamwidth, you guys more than make it worth it for me.
And Happy 2nd Birthday to Dreamwidth \o/ Two awesome years, and here's to many more.
SO. My journal is only on dreamwidth. And that was a sacrifice, and I don't want any kudos for that or anything, I'm just saying that to make it clear, I'm on this side of this particular equation. I read some things on LJ still, I make comments and link my fic on LJ, but no actual content goes there.
SO. When people on LJ are all 'well if enough people move to dw, I will go there' I want to scream: YOU ARE THE REVOLUTION! There is never going to be some magic light that goes on when there are 'enough' people on dw to make it 'worth it'. It's people, individually, one by one, deciding to post, and be excited, and use the site, that's what makes a difference, and to be honest, I love it here. I love the features, I love the people, I love the admins. I love the culture. Dreamwidth is a fantastic place, because people decided that they weren't waiting, they were just going for it.
So thank you to everyone who is here, who loves Dreamwidth, you guys more than make it worth it for me.
And Happy 2nd Birthday to Dreamwidth \o/ Two awesome years, and here's to many more.
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Date: 2011-05-01 09:49 pm (UTC)I forget which admin post it was, something about the import backup, and I noticed that people who had newly opened accounts were all complaining about how quiet it was here. Of course, posting-wise it's not quiet. It's quiet response-wise.
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Date: 2011-05-02 01:13 pm (UTC)I'm probably up to having more posts here than on what's left of my lj flist, but the comments are only just now starting to be more regular. I suppose the only thing that fixes it is just making more comments.
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Date: 2011-05-02 08:06 pm (UTC)The reason I brought it up though is that I find the majority of the excuses why people don't move not deceptive exactly, because they're true enough, but rather not the most significant reasons. I mean in the past year or so there's been an enormous increase in the use of Tumblr by fandoms -- while many of those people are not using DW. So it isn't really that they won't use another service unless all of their friends do, or even if many of their friends do. Rather, they won't use a service unless it benefits them in some new or additional way.
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Date: 2011-05-03 12:08 pm (UTC)On the third hand, AO3 is seeing a steady increase in users/activity, and if that ends up being my main link to some fandoms, that's fine with me.
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Date: 2011-05-03 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-02 04:28 am (UTC)This. Yes. I agree.
(ps. here via the Network page.)
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Date: 2011-05-02 01:19 pm (UTC)Thanks. I was a little afraid of coming off badly. It's not that I demand that lj fandom should move, it's just that if folks wanted to move, like they say they do, they would. We've done it already ;)
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Date: 2011-05-02 03:08 pm (UTC)Having all my posts locked made it difficult to make new friends and it wasn't doing anything for my actual privacy if any of my friends had ad-driven accounts (which I could not track or prevent.)
I don't read a lot of m/m slash and we don't have fandoms in common, but I did read a really decent Iron Man/Leverage x-over on AO3. http://archiveofourown.org/works/95390
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Date: 2011-05-03 12:11 pm (UTC)I've got a few folks on here that arn't much for fandoms per say, they're still awesome people ;) Thanks for the rec, that's right up my ally.
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Date: 2011-05-03 10:36 am (UTC)And am in absolute agreement, regarding the 'well if enough people move to dw, I will go there' crowd. Everyone is waiting for everyone else to make the first step, which, well, that's not how it works, guys! Especially since there are people, like you, who have already made that step. How many more do you need? :(
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Date: 2011-05-03 12:16 pm (UTC)I know, I think the reason it personally bugs me a little is it feels like people saying 'the people who are on dw arn't worth my time/effort' which is a terribly personal way to take it. It's not about me, or the awesome folks who are here really at all. Also, we know we're having fun over here, they are welcome get with the program whenever they want ;)