Have I mentioned lately that I love Dreamwidth?

[soc_puppet]

I've spent the last day-ish monitoring a Tumblr post I made promoting the hell out of Dreamwidth on the basis of the following four features:

- Yes to porn
- NFTs and crypto can fuck off (with link evidence of denise saying so in not quite those words)
- Posts in (reverse) chronological order
- Actual privacy options

With Discord (and now self-publishing site Gumroad, and possibly Patreon) leaning into NFTs, these seem to be decent selling points to the Tumblr crowd 😂😭

I did initially forget the lack of ads, but managed to go into extra detail when someone else brought it up. Definitely a good selling point, that.

In retrospect, putting all of those together would've been a nice, "Top 5 Cool Things About Dreamwidth", but I think it's doing well on its own at the moment.

Comments

[satsuma]

The big draw when I made the jump off tumblr was that on dreamwidth you can follow anything that has a RSS feed. Since tumblr (a long with many fantastic independent sites) provides rss feeds for blogs it meant I could keep in touch easier with the friends I was leaving behind

[soc_puppet]

Another one I forgot about! Whenever I do remember about that option, I contemplate making RSS feeds for some of the Tumblr accounts I follow, maybe finally cut the cord, but it looks like I'm not quite there yet. Still, I might bring it up as a perk later!

[satsuma]

Yeah its not a perfect fix — they still can’t follow you & obviously commenting/reblogging peoples posts wont work through RSS. Plus, tumblr’s tend to be faster paced than your average blog so it can be a big jarring to have them in the same feed. But it’s still a softer transition than most other social media sites offer!

[presumenothing]

Seeing your DW posts on Tumblr was definitely part of the reason why I finally decided to take the plunge and try it out, so +1 on its effectiveness!

[soc_puppet]

I try not to evangelize too much, because I know that can have the opposite effect, but it's nice to know that it worked at least once 😃

[presumenothing]

In my case it also helped that I did vaguely lurk around the end of LJ era, so had some idea that DW might be a place I'd like to check out more! Sometimes it just takes that last nudge, haha.

[chanter1944]

The sixth, IMO, is the responsiveness, genuine care for the userbase, and general awesomeness of the DW staff. :) They actually give a darn about accessibility issues, and I have a fixed issue as proof! :D

[soc_puppet]

Dreamwidth staff is amazing. I try to recommend that people take a look at a News or Maintenance post to get an idea of what their style of interacting with the userbase is like, but opportunities don't always come up naturally.

Really, I was mostly aiming for what I think are the top priorities of most of Tumblr, and while I think accessibility should be a priority for more of them, I'm sure they'll eventually come to appreciate it more. Hopefully sooner rather than later, and also for its own sake, but, well, we'll see what happens ten or twenty years down the road.

[which_chick]

I quit Tumblr when they marked as porn several of my posts that contained no nudity of any kind. Also they lack a decent search feature, which DW has. I'm willing to pay for free speech (Srsly, not going all white supremacy or TERF over here. Just want to talk about my shit without censorship.) and a decent search feature... and I put my money where my mouth is.

[soc_puppet]

Right? I am more than happy to keep a paid account going here and help keep the site running.

[mesotablar]

I followed the links and it seems like the conversation only mentions FOSTA/SESTA when (I only just found out about it myself) there is another, stricter, law being pushed through: EARN IT act

[soc_puppet]

Oof, yeah, I've seen a summary or two about that going around. I think the reason the tweets only talk about FOSTA/SESTA is because the thread was originally about when OnlyFans was trying to go SFW-only? But yeah, it's not because EARN IT isn't bad, it's because it wasn't in play at the time the tweets were being written.

[mesotablar]

yeah, I didn't even look at the dates! All the convo linked took place last year.

[mistressofmuses]

Dreamwidth is so good for so much! ;-; I wish more people knew it was a thing or would give it a try.
I keep hearing so many complaints about social media - the biggest one is probably algorithmic stuff, but ads is one, NFTs is currently a big one, lack of ability to foster community interaction... Content restrictions is probably one that will just keep growing as a concern and frustration, as more and more sites bow to more and more advertisers, etc.

A lot of the people who lament these things never had or used LJ, though others did and say they miss it... COME HERE!

(I know at least part of Dreamwidth's chill nature is because it doesn't have a huge userbase, but the privacy features available for both individuals and communities can do so much more to curb bad behavior, as compared to FB or Twitter or Tumblr, etc.)