(really, i'm just noodling around here)

[synecdochic]

A couple of conversations I've had tonight have solidified some more of my thinking about how I've been thinking about Dreamwidth-the-business (as opposed to Dreamwidth-the-project), and a couple of things connected in my head about why, precisely, things felt familiar, and I guess it's time for some drugged-up rambling through my own personal life

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[folk]

OMG, you're on Mars? Pavonis Mons here, you?

[sapote3]

That's what I was going to say! That that kind of permanence seems like it might be possible on the internet - maybe the internet alone - these days. But it does seem possible. And appealing.

I'm still boggled that there are people I started reading on Diaryland when I was sixteen and here I am, twenty-three years old and I still know them.

[slashpile]

portable roots for the new millennium
Exactly - lovely phrase :)

[demotu]

IAWTC. Word. This.

I think a lot about community and how the word and concept translates into the modern age, and this whole project makes me gleeful. (And wish I could code, at all, just to be more useful.)

[julietk]

*Yes*.

I've noticed before how much various ways of internet-interaction can feel like that. (This year I'm spending 9 months over the other side of the world from the people I normally spend my physical-time with, & so have been experimenting with it even more.) LJ can do that, but as others have said - it doesn't feel reliably secure, & there's all the business-sellout-kerfuffle on a regular basis.

Are DW still looking for people to help out, btw? I am about to have a stack of free time for the next few months.

[nenya_kanadka]

Yes! This is how I feel about my online communities, and have for years, as I've had to move about (for school, for RL family issues)--my online communities are still here when my physical space has changed. It's saved my sanity more than once.

And to plan for that, and intentionally cultivate a community instead of having it as a possible byproduct, is really wonderful.