Spring Clean

[ubiquirk]

After over two years on lj, it was time for a spring clean of the flist.  Fandom interests have diverged and, in many cases, diverged for some time.  You can say, rightfully so, that a lot of that is me.  It's not that my interests have changed, per se, as much as my true interests have fully emerged.  I absolutely love science fiction.  It will

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[firefly124]

I wish lj didn't use such an emotionally loaded word.

Amen to that. That's one of the high points to this new Dreamwidth thing, imo. They've taken the "friend" word out of it and separated "subscribing" from "granting access to protected entries." LJ would do well to follow suit.

Nonetheless, this was quite hard to do.

It always is. *nods*

[veradee]

I agree that the expression "friend" is unfortunate because it is emotionally loaded, but while I haven't bothered finding out too about Dreamwidth, I'm not sure whether their way of handling things is better. At least, I could imagine that some people will be as hurt about just being on the "subscriber list" instead of the "protected entries list" at DW as they are hurt when they are defriended on LJ. At least, on LJ you never know when you are filtered, do you? :)

[firefly124]

Maybe. The goal seems to be to keep "subscribing to read stuff" and "social networking" separate. While I'm sure some people will get hurt in any scenario, I do like that basic idea.

I don't know whole lots about Dreamwidth, but what I have heard sounds intriguing, at least. It'll be interesting to see how and in what directions it develops.

[ubiquirk]

I know nothing about this Dreamwidth thingy - is it going to be the next ij?

It was really hard. But it also fits with my 'clean things out' mindset.

[firefly124]

Possibly. It's being rolled out slowly, with the intent of not having the server overload issues IJ had with the big influx. It'll be interesting to see if it works out better as a result. Lots of people are trying it, which I'm thinking of doing, but I don't expect some huge migration unless it turns out to be just that much better than LJ.

[ubiquirk]

I just did the open ID thingy, which is supposed to garner an invite.

[firefly124]

Well, it puts you into a lottery for invites. I've been doing the OpenID thing for a couple of weeks over there, and no luck yet.