A question for you all.
Apr. 16th, 2009 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randomlingI'm still undecided about what I'm going to do with my Dreamwidth account.
Which is silly, in a way. Or maybe not. Either way - it's a thing that's there. I think this project is entirely fabulous and I really want to support it; that's why I'm here. I appear to be meeting new people here, and joining communities that would probably seem too "big and scary" to participate in on LJ, and that's awesome. But what am I going to do here?
No, really.
I don't want to leave LJ entirely, because I have a certain number of friends there who are unlikely to migrate. So I'll probably keep the LJ around. I have friends there who I'll want to stay in touch with.
I don't really want to cross-post, mostly because... well, it's like this. I have three LiveJournals. That gets complicated. Do I want to merge personal, fannish stuff, and fan-writing here? Do I want a separate something for the non-fan-writing that I'm not doing at the moment anyway? And do I want to have them all as one thing here and cross-post to three different journals on LJ? No, no I don't.
My personal journal there is mostly flocked - but I don't want to keep doing that for various reasons, partly because I now have a public blog that shares some fairly personal stuff, albeit under a name that isn't all mine.
My fannish journal, I rarely use these days, and I'm not sure I want to make that distinction between "fannish friends" and "real friends"; some of my fannish friends are among my best "real" friends, ever.
And the fan-writing journal, well, has been quiet for some time due to a lack of words on my part, but had a separate flist all its own, because there are people who like to read me but don't really know me. Which is fine. (Flattering, even. And awesome. I love my readers.)
So what to do?
I like having the "public writing blog" because it's a new and interesting thing to have a "real blog" instead of a journal on one of these journaling services, and it's a different mode of writing that seems more like it's to-be-read instead of for-communication-with-people.
I like having my LJ. I like the people there, even if I have my doubts about the way the LJ service is going.
I love it here at Dreamwidth because it feels so fresh and new and everybody is excited about having a new sandbox to play in and about building the community here from scratch. And there are so many interesting new people to meet and I already love you all.
I don't really know how I'm going to resolve this, but for the future, this journal may be... primarily wibbling about what I'm going to do with this journal. Either that, or I find a theme to make it distinct from the other journals and blogs I keep.
Something like that.
Which is silly, in a way. Or maybe not. Either way - it's a thing that's there. I think this project is entirely fabulous and I really want to support it; that's why I'm here. I appear to be meeting new people here, and joining communities that would probably seem too "big and scary" to participate in on LJ, and that's awesome. But what am I going to do here?
No, really.
I don't want to leave LJ entirely, because I have a certain number of friends there who are unlikely to migrate. So I'll probably keep the LJ around. I have friends there who I'll want to stay in touch with.
I don't really want to cross-post, mostly because... well, it's like this. I have three LiveJournals. That gets complicated. Do I want to merge personal, fannish stuff, and fan-writing here? Do I want a separate something for the non-fan-writing that I'm not doing at the moment anyway? And do I want to have them all as one thing here and cross-post to three different journals on LJ? No, no I don't.
My personal journal there is mostly flocked - but I don't want to keep doing that for various reasons, partly because I now have a public blog that shares some fairly personal stuff, albeit under a name that isn't all mine.
My fannish journal, I rarely use these days, and I'm not sure I want to make that distinction between "fannish friends" and "real friends"; some of my fannish friends are among my best "real" friends, ever.
And the fan-writing journal, well, has been quiet for some time due to a lack of words on my part, but had a separate flist all its own, because there are people who like to read me but don't really know me. Which is fine. (Flattering, even. And awesome. I love my readers.)
So what to do?
I like having the "public writing blog" because it's a new and interesting thing to have a "real blog" instead of a journal on one of these journaling services, and it's a different mode of writing that seems more like it's to-be-read instead of for-communication-with-people.
I like having my LJ. I like the people there, even if I have my doubts about the way the LJ service is going.
I love it here at Dreamwidth because it feels so fresh and new and everybody is excited about having a new sandbox to play in and about building the community here from scratch. And there are so many interesting new people to meet and I already love you all.
I don't really know how I'm going to resolve this, but for the future, this journal may be... primarily wibbling about what I'm going to do with this journal. Either that, or I find a theme to make it distinct from the other journals and blogs I keep.
Something like that.
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Date: 2009-04-16 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-17 12:34 pm (UTC)So I'm dithering. I won't be leaving LJ any time soon, but... too many journals!
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Date: 2009-04-17 12:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-17 12:31 pm (UTC)But yes, it would seem weird to leave LJ completely in the dust after so long for me, too. There are way too many people that I want to keep in touch with!
So what I'll do with my Dreamwidth, I don't know yet.
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Date: 2009-04-17 03:12 am (UTC)I like that I can, in fact, set my personal stuff to "access only" and my public stuff to "hey, subscribers, over here!" without jumping through hoops. I'll be inviting some of my closer friends from over there, but not all and sundry; they can come over on April 30 like the rest of the world!
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Date: 2009-04-17 12:36 pm (UTC)And yeah. The filters are a lot less necessary here, which I love, 'cause filters are a pain. It gives me a lot more leeway to read people I don't know, without also having them have to hear about all the random gunk that lives in my head. And that's rather freeing in a way!