randomling | Apr. 12th, 2009

Okay, I admit it, I had been bitching and feeling left out 'cause I didn't have an invite. And then I checked my email when I got up this... um, afternoon (shush, it's Easter Sunday) and there it was! "Denise has invited you to Dreamwith." Eeeeeee! Thank you,

denise!

I am dithering over whether to import or not. Partly because I have three journals on LJ and I'm not sure they accurately reflect what I would really like to use Dreamwith for. On LJ, my personal and fannish journals are separate - here, I'd like to keep them in the same place, for convenience and also so that I'm not making this arbitary distinction between "real friends" snd "fannish friends" (that feels rather mean to me, and I think that the basic set-up of DW will make it much easier to run my journal the way I want).

I'm also not sure that I want to keep all my personal posts locked any more. Hell, I blog about really personal things on my writing blog, and that's Totally Public To All The World. And read by about three people, but never mind! :) In any case, a new journaling service kind of gives me the opportunity to make some new choices and not be bound by the decisions of the past.

Oh wow, I'm in love with "granting access" and "subscribing" as TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. Yes, OK, I knew this was going to happen for all the time I've been following DW. But I had no idea how awesome it would be. Because I can now read the people I like but don't know, and not have to filter them off any locked post I make (or just go, sod it, they don't read anyway so whatever). And that feels kind of awesome.

"Awesome": clearly a word that applies to Dreamwidth very well.

I'm very new and shiny here. And I'm probably going to make a post to