Dreamwidth
It's Dreamwidth open-beta day. I have an account myself; I'm currently in the process of cross posting all of my fic, and I'll continue to cross-post fic, meta, and other serious business type posts. I'm excited about Dreamwidth: the attempts to fix shoddy code, the desire to be more accountable and responsive to a community, the DIY vibe, all of these appeal to me.
But LJ is a place where I come to participate in a community, and that's not there, for me, on DW yet. I agree with wendelah1 's assessment that tons of philes are not going to show up, but part of me hopes that it could be a new space for phile-y thinking and talking. Since I started writing, I've only been in one fannish circle, it seems; my group of friends here on LJ are people who also know each other, a fairly limited circle, I think. I stopped going to the TWoP boards after IWTB came out, in part because I didn't see the movie until the evening, didn't check the internet until the next morning, and never got caught up on the posts on the thread. And I find I don't miss it, that there wasn't much there to capture me. Everything I've heard about Haven suggests that I would go batshit insane if I read their boards. So part of me hopes that, on DW, I might find new people, new conversations, new thinking.
Which gets to the point of this post:
1. I have five invite codes for free basic accounts on Dreamwidth, and don't yet have any claims on them from anybody.
2. I also founded a community, philedom, as a sort of general x-files comm.
Therefore, 3. I am happy to hand out my DW codes to anyone who wants one. However, I am going to be a fascist, and say you have to join philedom if you want my code. And, I don't know, read it occasionally. You need momentum to get momentum, I think.
4. Even if you don't need my codes, you should join philedom. Have I linked it enough? Are you sure you've got that name?
In the process of crossposting, I'm realizing how long it has been since I wrote something. I'm working on that. Kind of.
But LJ is a place where I come to participate in a community, and that's not there, for me, on DW yet. I agree with wendelah1 's assessment that tons of philes are not going to show up, but part of me hopes that it could be a new space for phile-y thinking and talking. Since I started writing, I've only been in one fannish circle, it seems; my group of friends here on LJ are people who also know each other, a fairly limited circle, I think. I stopped going to the TWoP boards after IWTB came out, in part because I didn't see the movie until the evening, didn't check the internet until the next morning, and never got caught up on the posts on the thread. And I find I don't miss it, that there wasn't much there to capture me. Everything I've heard about Haven suggests that I would go batshit insane if I read their boards. So part of me hopes that, on DW, I might find new people, new conversations, new thinking.
Which gets to the point of this post:
1. I have five invite codes for free basic accounts on Dreamwidth, and don't yet have any claims on them from anybody.
2. I also founded a community, philedom, as a sort of general x-files comm.
Therefore, 3. I am happy to hand out my DW codes to anyone who wants one. However, I am going to be a fascist, and say you have to join philedom if you want my code. And, I don't know, read it occasionally. You need momentum to get momentum, I think.
4. Even if you don't need my codes, you should join philedom. Have I linked it enough? Are you sure you've got that name?
In the process of crossposting, I'm realizing how long it has been since I wrote something. I'm working on that. Kind of.