How To Follow Me (& Others) on Dreamwidth
Yeah, I know this is a PITA for those folks who are sticking with Livejournal and/or don't want to create a new account. Here's my attempt to explain the options you have.
See Public Dreamwidth Posts on Your LJ Friends Page
I've created a LJ Feed for my public Dreamwidth posts:
laurel_on_dw
Note: you will only see public posts this way. As with other LJ RSS Feeds, you can comment on them but it's unlikely the originator of the feed will see your comments (unless they specifically go look at the LJ version of their feed which I doubt anyone ever does). Also LJ feed accounts will only show you public posts from the last two weeks or so.
If you have a paid LJ account, you can add the feeds of other folks on Dreamwidth this way (or check if someone else has already created a LJ feed for them) by visiting http://www.livejournal.com/syn/ and adding the URL of the feed (place to do that is near the bottom of the page). If the feed already exists on LJ, you'll be shown the existing LJ feed account and can subscribe to it as you would any other LJ account.
The URL for feeds for Dreamwidth accounts are (replace "laurel" with the name of the Dreamwidth account you want to add):
http://laurel.dreamwidth.org/data/rss
or
http://laurel.dreamwidth.org/data/atom
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If You Already Have a Dreamwidth Account
Just visit my Dreamwidth profile page or journal and subscribe to me! If you actually post to a Dreamwidth journal yourself, you can also set up whether you allow me to see protected entries & all that jazz.
Moi on Dreamwidth:
laurel
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If You Don't Yet Have a Dreamwidth Account But Are Willing to Visit Dreamwidth To Read the Journals Of Folks You Know There (& Comment On Them There)
If you've ever commented on one of my Livejournal posts, you actually probably already have a Dreamwidth account, it's just a Livejournal Open ID account (a.k.a. Identity Account) and you need to claim/access it in order to see my protected entries and do other things on Dreamwidth.
Read this for explanation/details:
Dreamwidth FAQ: If you're coming from LiveJournal to Dreamwidth: OpenID and identity accounts
Simple-ish steps:
1. Go to http://www.dreamwidth.org/openid/
2. Where it says "Your OpenID URL:" enter YourLivejournalUsername.livejournal.com & click "Login" (For me, the URL I enter for OpenID URL is "laurel.livejournal.com") (If you're already logged in to Livejournal you probably won't have to do anything else; if you aren't, you may need to log in to your LJ.)
3. Go to http://www.dreamwidth.org/changeemail.bml and enter whatever email address you want connected to the account in "new email address" and then select the button "Change email address"
4. Check your email (for that address) and read the email from Dreamwidth (likely webmaster@dreamwidth.org) and click on the appropriate link to confirm things.
5. Visit the Dreamwidth profile page(s) for folks you want to subscribe to (here's mine) and then select "Subscribe" and you may also need to select something after that as well. One easy way to find people to subscribe to? See if they've already granted you access to their Dreamwidth account by going to your profile page (click the little OpenID icon to left of your LJ URL where it's listed near the top of the page). On your profile page under "People" there should also be "Has Access From" and you'll probably see at least a few folks listed there. (These are people who imported their Livejournals into Dreamwidth and included friends/filter groups & comments and such. So if they gave you access on LJ, you probably also are listed here. Not everyone imports comments and filters when moving onto Dreamwidth, but many do.)
6. Select "Reading Page" (usually listed up top by your LJ URL) or something like that and you should see the Dreamwidth equivalent of a Friends Page. You'll probably want to bookmark that because one downside of the OpenID Dreamwidth accounts is your account ID is a combination of letters & numbers and not something pretty and easy to remember.
If you ever decide to create a full-on regular Dreamwidth account you might be tempted to delete/remove your existing identity/LJ OpenID account, but there's absolutely no harm in leaving it there. You might also want to claim it and connect it to your new Dreamwidth account (you might not want to connect all those you.livejournal.com comments to your shiny new Dreamwidth account, I can imagine scenarios where you wouldn't).
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If Someone You Follow Only Accepts Comments On Their Posts on Dreamwidth (they might be crossposting to LJ, but only accepting comments on Dreamwidth)
You probably should make/claim a Dreamwidth Identity account (using your Livejournal Open ID) as mentioned above. Or a full-on Dreamwidth account. Whichever you prefer.
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If You Prefer Getting Dreamwidth Journal Updates Via Email
I didn't even think of this until I saw someone else post about it, but of course it's doable. Maybe you're cool with visiting your Livejournal Friends Page regularly but don't want to bother also checking a Dreamwidth Reading Page (perhaps because only a couple of people you follow are exclusively on Dreamwidth). Maybe you just prefer getting email updates.
With a Dreamwidth account (full one or an Identity account based on your Livejournal OpenID as explained above), you can visit the profile page for a user, select "track user" and then "also notify via email" and you'll get emails when they update their journal.
I believe there's a limit on how many of these you can set up, but it is an option.
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As ever, the "A guide to Dreamwidth for LiveJournal users" part of the Dreamwidth FAQ is useful. See also my previous post about this stuff.
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If you find yourself wanting to link to someone on Dreamwidth from your LJ as you would with "lj-user" code etc (a la laurel), you can find HTML to emulate that on each Dreamwidth user's profile page (near the very bottom of it). That's where I found the HTML for:
laurel
One of my fave things on Dreamwidth is how easy it is to do that for not just Dreamwidth but also LJ and plenty of other sites. I'm still having difficulty remembering how as I'm so used to the LJ way. D'oh!
See Public Dreamwidth Posts on Your LJ Friends Page
I've created a LJ Feed for my public Dreamwidth posts:
laurel_on_dw
Note: you will only see public posts this way. As with other LJ RSS Feeds, you can comment on them but it's unlikely the originator of the feed will see your comments (unless they specifically go look at the LJ version of their feed which I doubt anyone ever does). Also LJ feed accounts will only show you public posts from the last two weeks or so.
If you have a paid LJ account, you can add the feeds of other folks on Dreamwidth this way (or check if someone else has already created a LJ feed for them) by visiting http://www.livejournal.com/syn/ and adding the URL of the feed (place to do that is near the bottom of the page). If the feed already exists on LJ, you'll be shown the existing LJ feed account and can subscribe to it as you would any other LJ account.
The URL for feeds for Dreamwidth accounts are (replace "laurel" with the name of the Dreamwidth account you want to add):
http://laurel.dreamwidth.org/data/rss
or
http://laurel.dreamwidth.org/data/atom
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If You Already Have a Dreamwidth Account
Just visit my Dreamwidth profile page or journal and subscribe to me! If you actually post to a Dreamwidth journal yourself, you can also set up whether you allow me to see protected entries & all that jazz.
Moi on Dreamwidth:
laurel
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If You Don't Yet Have a Dreamwidth Account But Are Willing to Visit Dreamwidth To Read the Journals Of Folks You Know There (& Comment On Them There)
If you've ever commented on one of my Livejournal posts, you actually probably already have a Dreamwidth account, it's just a Livejournal Open ID account (a.k.a. Identity Account) and you need to claim/access it in order to see my protected entries and do other things on Dreamwidth.
Read this for explanation/details:
Dreamwidth FAQ: If you're coming from LiveJournal to Dreamwidth: OpenID and identity accounts
Simple-ish steps:
1. Go to http://www.dreamwidth.org/openid/
2. Where it says "Your OpenID URL:" enter YourLivejournalUsername.livejournal.com & click "Login" (For me, the URL I enter for OpenID URL is "laurel.livejournal.com") (If you're already logged in to Livejournal you probably won't have to do anything else; if you aren't, you may need to log in to your LJ.)
3. Go to http://www.dreamwidth.org/changeemail.bml and enter whatever email address you want connected to the account in "new email address" and then select the button "Change email address"
4. Check your email (for that address) and read the email from Dreamwidth (likely webmaster@dreamwidth.org) and click on the appropriate link to confirm things.
5. Visit the Dreamwidth profile page(s) for folks you want to subscribe to (here's mine) and then select "Subscribe" and you may also need to select something after that as well. One easy way to find people to subscribe to? See if they've already granted you access to their Dreamwidth account by going to your profile page (click the little OpenID icon to left of your LJ URL where it's listed near the top of the page). On your profile page under "People" there should also be "Has Access From" and you'll probably see at least a few folks listed there. (These are people who imported their Livejournals into Dreamwidth and included friends/filter groups & comments and such. So if they gave you access on LJ, you probably also are listed here. Not everyone imports comments and filters when moving onto Dreamwidth, but many do.)
6. Select "Reading Page" (usually listed up top by your LJ URL) or something like that and you should see the Dreamwidth equivalent of a Friends Page. You'll probably want to bookmark that because one downside of the OpenID Dreamwidth accounts is your account ID is a combination of letters & numbers and not something pretty and easy to remember.
If you ever decide to create a full-on regular Dreamwidth account you might be tempted to delete/remove your existing identity/LJ OpenID account, but there's absolutely no harm in leaving it there. You might also want to claim it and connect it to your new Dreamwidth account (you might not want to connect all those you.livejournal.com comments to your shiny new Dreamwidth account, I can imagine scenarios where you wouldn't).
+ + +
If Someone You Follow Only Accepts Comments On Their Posts on Dreamwidth (they might be crossposting to LJ, but only accepting comments on Dreamwidth)
You probably should make/claim a Dreamwidth Identity account (using your Livejournal Open ID) as mentioned above. Or a full-on Dreamwidth account. Whichever you prefer.
+ + +
If You Prefer Getting Dreamwidth Journal Updates Via Email
I didn't even think of this until I saw someone else post about it, but of course it's doable. Maybe you're cool with visiting your Livejournal Friends Page regularly but don't want to bother also checking a Dreamwidth Reading Page (perhaps because only a couple of people you follow are exclusively on Dreamwidth). Maybe you just prefer getting email updates.
With a Dreamwidth account (full one or an Identity account based on your Livejournal OpenID as explained above), you can visit the profile page for a user, select "track user" and then "also notify via email" and you'll get emails when they update their journal.
I believe there's a limit on how many of these you can set up, but it is an option.
+ + +
As ever, the "A guide to Dreamwidth for LiveJournal users" part of the Dreamwidth FAQ is useful. See also my previous post about this stuff.
+ + +
If you find yourself wanting to link to someone on Dreamwidth from your LJ as you would with "lj-user" code etc (a la laurel), you can find HTML to emulate that on each Dreamwidth user's profile page (near the very bottom of it). That's where I found the HTML for:
laurel
One of my fave things on Dreamwidth is how easy it is to do that for not just Dreamwidth but also LJ and plenty of other sites. I'm still having difficulty remembering how as I'm so used to the LJ way. D'oh!