to friend someone and give/not give them access to your LJ, to have friends you trust and don't trust.
I think it's the same principle as f-list filters, but I am amused by your blunt assessment of 'trust or don't trust'. {g} I'm not fond of the 'friends' designation LJ has chosen, but I'd like to think I've made some casual friends in fandom, folk that I can have a nice conversation with. {g}
I was reading the DW mailing list and folk are talking about moving communities, but there's a wee bit of a problem... shortage of invites. IIRC, you can use an OpenID such as your LJ url as a username, however, at this point, you can't post to your "own journal"; you can only view... or there was some limitations that really made an OpenID to access DW awkward at this point. Maybe it's just a beta phase limitation. There was discussion of only allowing a quantity of users the servers could support, which made sense. However, fandom is large--as a small portion, the 'fandomcounts' LJ journal to give some numbers.
Frankly, I'll move where 'fandom' moves. My LJ profile is like a 'graveyard' of links, in case folk decide this or that journaling service is going to be the 'new thing'. Whether or not DW will grow... or just be an alternate journal service like Journalfen, time will tell.
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momijizukamori
Re: Dreamwidth
Date: 2009-04-10 02:46 pm (UTC)I think it's the same principle as f-list filters, but I am amused by your blunt assessment of 'trust or don't trust'. {g} I'm not fond of the 'friends' designation LJ has chosen, but I'd like to think I've made some casual friends in fandom, folk that I can have a nice conversation with. {g}
I was reading the DW mailing list and folk are talking about moving communities, but there's a wee bit of a problem... shortage of invites. IIRC, you can use an OpenID such as your LJ url as a username, however, at this point, you can't post to your "own journal"; you can only view... or there was some limitations that really made an OpenID to access DW awkward at this point. Maybe it's just a beta phase limitation. There was discussion of only allowing a quantity of users the servers could support, which made sense. However, fandom is large--as a small portion, the 'fandomcounts' LJ journal to give some numbers.
Frankly, I'll move where 'fandom' moves. My LJ profile is like a 'graveyard' of links, in case folk decide this or that journaling service is going to be the 'new thing'. Whether or not DW will grow... or just be an alternate journal service like Journalfen, time will tell.