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	eleutheria 2009-04-08 08:23 pm UTC (link)
	For me it's all a matter of who moves, and so far, I haven't seen a single person on my flist except you show any interest in it at all. I do more religious-oriented stuff on LJ than fannish, and if the religious people stay, so will I, probably. (Reply to this)(Thread)

melannen
2009-04-08 08:36 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, the DW meme is only slowly moving out of the fandom/tech geek communities, so it will probably be awhile (if ever) before the more general-interest stuff starts moving, though a little of that is happening already. And there are a *lot* of non-fannish communities starting up on DW, started by fans; I wouldn't be suprised if whole new communities of religious-oriented people start up on DW pretty quickly. ~~with the benefit that all the stupid and annoying people will have stayed on lj~~.

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eleutheria
2009-04-14 06:58 am UTC (link)

Oh, I wish that strikeout part were true. However, entirely too much of the fannish discussion of Paganism tends to be of the Neo-Wiccan "OMG WE'RE MORE AINSHUNT THAN DIRT AND XTIANS STOLE OUR SHIT" variety, which is full of stupid. For instance, I looked at the IJ comms at one point, and what I saw was Myspace/Facebook-type level posts-- that may have changed, I don't know, but that's what was up at one point. Don't know what the Christian comms might be like, they might be better. I enjoy the more scholarly posters on LJ, most of them aren't fannish. I remember when Strikethrough got mentioned on NFP (or was it dot_pagan_snark?), and the reaction was a lot of skepticism.

That, and looking at my LJ flist, only one person has a desire to check out DW, and she doesn't say she's actually moving. The rest don't even seem to know it's there.

*shrug* It's one more thing to pay for at a time when I can't pay for a lot of excess stuff. If it turns into a mass migration, I may have to rethink this, but for now, I'm staying on LJ.

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	stellar_dust 2009-04-08 08:54 pm UTC (link)
	I should do a similar poll, so I can figure out how I'll do my xposting. If I can get all or most of my JF/IJ friends to at least use an OpenID flist on DW, I'll stop xposting, and it will be very yay. (I harbor no hopes of that happening on LJ, though.) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	melannen 2009-04-08 10:04 pm UTC (link)
	That would be yay! I honestly have no idea how much of JF is going to move; I know a lot of hp-IJ people have been acting skeptical about it, though. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	stellar_dust 2009-04-08 11:08 pm UTC (link)
	I get the vibe that the majority of both my flists are either moving, or know enough moving people that they'll be open to regularly checking an openID flist there? But I want to know for sure, hence polls. :D My IJ flist is not very HP, rather multi or non-fannish with a slight skew in favor of DW (... that's Doctor Who there). (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sepiamagpie 2009-04-08 10:01 pm UTC (link)
	I even have a name picked out >.> (Reply to this)(Thread)

	melannen 2009-04-08 10:04 pm UTC (link)
	Hooray! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	melannen 2009-04-14 09:50 am UTC (link)
	If you still want/need a Dreamwidth invite code, e-mail me at thisusername @ yahoo.com before dawn on the 15th, and I'll send you one! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2009-04-14 09:53 am UTC (link)
	bam, done. \o/ (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	melannen 2009-04-14 10:03 am UTC (link)
	Hurrah! (I see you there!) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2009-04-14 10:04 am UTC (link)
	I was gonna go with Ishmael originally, but chickened out on account of having not read Moby Dick. But I love the name Benedict, and I use that on IJ, as well as it being the name of possibly my favourite city of heroes character. /nerd Thank you so much! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sandglass 2009-04-08 10:50 pm UTC (link)
	I want one but you're the only person I know over there. :( (Reply to this)(Thread)

	melannen 2009-04-08 11:56 pm UTC (link)
	Make new friends! Everybody is trying to find new people and make news starts over there. There are BNFs who never friend back on LJ who are just subscribing to anyone they can find! I will keep you in mind, anyway. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	melannen 2009-04-22 03:16 am UTC (link)
	e-mail me at thisusername @ yahoo & I will send you a DW invite! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandglass 2009-04-22 05:55 am UTC (link)
	I would but I can't think of a username, D: (Reply to this)(Parent)

	notjo 2009-04-09 03:53 am UTC (link)
	I'm hoping to both grab an account over there for my LJ-related stuff, plus start a "With The Name I Publish Under" history account where I will post about...guess. ;) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	melannen 2009-04-09 05:07 am UTC (link)
	Oooh. Are you going to let embarassingly fandomy people find your history account? Because that sounds cool. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notjo 2009-04-09 03:46 pm UTC (link)
	I <3 embrassingly fandomy people, so totally - I'll be either linking from the primary account to the history account or cross-posting. Fandom is where all my friends are! :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

hyaenid
2009-04-09 12:19 pm UTC (link)

So one of the tickyboxes I checked kind of contradicts the other two, but that's how I roll.

I think I'd be more excited about Dreamwidth if I weren't in the process of really truly becoming a reclusive antisocial shut-in. As it is, I'll probably buy an account, since I support the idea, then keep on posting/contributing nothing.

Either that, or DW will be a huge fannish blood infusion and I'll go back to the hyperactive fannish habits of my youth, only with significantly better spelling, grammar, and social skills.

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	melannen 2009-04-10 12:37 am UTC (link)
	Oh, I hear on on the reclucsive anti-social shut-in. DW actually has given me a blood infusion, (at least relative to where I've been lately) but who knows if it'll last. Anyway, DW will at least let you lurk better! (public posts from any lj-type site on your DW flist, unlimited RSS feeds even for free accounts....) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sparkysrevenge 2009-04-10 09:51 am UTC (link)
	One of my friends on LJ is considering DreamWidth, and I think the vast majority of people just haven't heard of it. I'm all excited, and I'd hop on it like white on rice. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	melannen 2009-04-10 09:54 pm UTC (link)
	Hooray! As more and more people get accounts and start talking about it, hopefully the sphere of awareness will also grow. (I've been amazed by how many of my friends are already interested, actually.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	melannen 2009-04-14 09:50 am UTC (link)
	If you still want/need a Dreamwidth invite code, e-mail me at thisusername @ yahoo.com before dawn on the 15th, and I'll send you one! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kaesa 2009-04-10 06:21 pm UTC (link)
	I hadn't heard of it until fairly recently, don't have OpenID set up yet, am not posting much that's interesting right now, and am graduating from college on May 3rd, so I will be really busy until it's in open beta anyway. So while I support it and all, I'm not going to go begging for a code, and voted for completeness' sake. ...And, of course, I like tickyboxes. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	melannen 2009-04-10 11:38 pm UTC (link)
	Well, good luck with college! (I hope DW doesn't actually kill tickyboxes. But if they put in better poll functionality, we might stop needing them.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kaesa 2009-04-10 11:40 pm UTC (link)
	...is it wrong that I just can't imagine LJ-style polls without at least an option for tickyboxes? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

melannen
2009-04-13 12:24 am UTC (link)

VIVA TICKY!

They'll have the tickybox poll question option, but if I recall, the reason "ticky" became traditional in lj polls was in order to track the number of people who saw the poll - since there's no other good way. DW is hoping to actually make poll statistics much easier to work with, so maybe it'll do the things that tickyboxes do. (But tickybox will still live! It must!)

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	ms_treesap 2009-04-14 02:29 pm UTC (link)
	Are you still giving them out? :D? /late (Reply to this)(Thread)

	melannen 2009-04-15 03:56 am UTC (link)
	I don't have any left at the moment, but you can still go on the list for in case I get any more! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	melannen 2009-04-22 03:18 am UTC (link)
	If you still need a DW invite, e-mail me at thisusername @ yahoo and I will send you one! (Reply to this)(Parent)