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I know that we Dreamwidth proselytizers can be annoying, but I've seen takes on Tumblr that are like ... fine but it's not truly social, it doesn't have a culture, it's just LJ/a blogging platform without features for interaction!

...????????

Honestly, as someone who's been here since the LJ migration, the idea that there's no distinctive Dreamwidth "culture" is almost funny. Obviously there are different communities and parts of Dreamwidth that differ a lot from each other, but the idea that DW culture = LJ culture when so many people threw absolute tantrums over the differences in site culture between LJ and DW (many of which are quite real!) back in the day is pretty surreal.

I know that was a long time ago now, but Dreamwidth is not and has never been a neutral environment, lol.

on 2023-11-12 07:36 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] chestnut_pod
Oh, how could we forget the weeping, the wailing, the gnashing of teeth over all aspects of Dreamwidth!

on 2023-11-12 07:55 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] lotesse
I wonder if the lack of neutrality is actually the perceived barrier to social entry? No way to passively click "like," you've got to decide to type real words if you want to connect. Myself, I think it's maybe better to be more active/less neutral, but it is difficult for my inner lurker to give up the easy buttons, ngl ....

on 2023-11-12 10:39 pm (UTC)
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Ha, meanwhile when I added to a reblog about the pros and cons of dreamwidth I spent some time trying to figure out how to articulate that I know a number of people who have found the site culture so overwhelmingly at odds with their own posting style that it puts them off from posting at all. The culture definitely exists!

on 2023-11-18 12:22 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] alias_sqbr

Thank you!

on 2023-11-13 01:57 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] nnozomi
we Dreamwidth proselytizers can be annoying, but I've seen takes on Tumblr that are like ... fine but it's not truly social,
This is so odd to me--I don't exist on Tumblr, I just lurk sometimes, but it always seems to me that there's so little, well, socializing! on Tumblr compared to DW--it's much harder to have a back-and-forth conversation or just leave a casual comment. (Maybe if I had a Tumblr account I'd know different, but...) I like image posts on DW much better, for instance, pain in the ass as they are, because I can actually see what everyone had to say about the pictures and how the original poster responded and...you get what I mean!

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