Dreamwidth Blogging About Dreamwidth Blogging

[xyzzysqrl]

So I'm having this problem where I kind of WANT to follow some random people around here, like I'll be browsing a chain of links and oh hey this person seems interesting... and then my brain goes "No, we don't do that."

Don't we? Uh.

So then I realize that I'm caught between two impulses. I want to treat this like 2006-ish era Livejournal where you just pop off a friending/following if you think someone's neat and then walk out again if you get bored. I am however used to keeping friend groups in a very distinct blob and do not mix. So at some point I got afraid of expansion, and afraid of just... doing the thing. Hit the button.

Which wouldn't be so bad except I like meeting people and I'm REALLY enjoying this thing where I click my DW "reading" page and it's like an alien landscape of familiar flowering blooms and fascinating unknown fronds. Y'all are great. I don't know all of you as well as I should but this is a magical experience having a spreading healthy populated ecosystem again.

So ... do we not do that? I don't know. Maybe it's time to expand outward a little and do some tentative probing into observation.

I gotta think about it, but: if you're trying to figure out who I am and why I just stuck you on my reading list, uh hi. I'm a fairly harmless furry with complicated gender feelings who posts their video game blogging, idle silliness and some RL stuff here and I am interested in what you post for some reason.

Comments

[austin_dern]

I have what seems like a similar feeling. I'll run across people I think are maybe interesting, but I don't know how to dare follow them and just go interacting with them.

I feel like I've lost the knack of just making friends in online circles. Even if it's, like, someone or a group I've followed a while and like I get seized with this thought of, ``you know, they've gone their whole lives without me and done just fine, who am I to mess that up on them?''

So I guess I just don't know how to grow into a social media niche anymore.

[tuftears]

Meow. ^_^ I like to think my user profile is fairly self-explanatory. Dreamwidth seems to offer two buttons to click rather than one: grant access (allow them to read your friends-locked posts) and subscribe (put them on the list of journals you are following) which might help. Then again, being used to LJ where there was only the one button, I just click both when adding someone to the list of journals I follow. Fortunately pretty much all my entries are public-accessible so, there's no real thinking to do there.

[kjorteo]

I can vouch for this sqrl. She's cool.

[kjorteo]

But yeah, I find myself in this position where I was used to LiveJournal being dead for so long, and I come onto Dreamwidth and suddenly my read page has entries in it. Like, even within the friend circle I had already, you're gameblogging! David is gameblogging! Sword is gameblogging! Hell, even Xaq is active again! You started some sort of gameblogging movement and now we actually have some sort of semblance of a living community.

And that encourages me to go further, which is where I end up being tempted to go around adding random neat-looking people. We have a community, somehow! Let's see if we can grow it. Or something.

I've done this before and I don't care

[xyzzysqrl]

And then three people do it! Can you imagine, three people a day logging in, typin' out a few gameblogs, and logging back out? Why they may think it's an ORGANIZATION.

And can you imagine FIFTY PEOPLE a day logging in, posting their gameblogs, and logging out? My friends they may think it's a MOVEMENT!
And that's what it IS. And all you gotta do to join is post something the next time it comes around on the guitar...

[swordianmaster]

did someone say guitar?

A banjo is like a guitar, right?