observations
Apr. 22nd, 2009 15:47![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
piranhai've been subscribing to lots of people i don't know -- mostly from meeting them on #dw, but also from picking over denise's enormous reading list. i am purposely not just choosing people who seem to have a lot in common with me. and it's really good for me, i think -- i'm hearing more different voices now. not that my flist on LJ has been unidimensional by any means, but for the most part it consists of people with whom i've hung out in the same online places for years if not decades, and while they don't bore me in the least, there is something to the freshness of the new voices that shakes up my own thoughts more.
now, i could have done this on LJ any time, but generally i did it rarely, and only when somebody's linked post had really inspired me in some way. i really like that dreamwidth has split the old friends list into access and subscribe. yeah, i am sure there will be wank about that too, some people will get just as upset at somebody not granting them the same level of access that they grant, but it does take some of that general angst away. and the mere removal of the word "friend" emboldens me to subscribe to anyone i care to, because it no longer seems so fraught with unintended meaning. "subscribe" is perfectly neutral and reflects what i am doing pretty well.
i am not going to crosspost this. i am worried that my LJ flist will get annoyed with all the dreamwidth squeeing; one person has already griped about how DW, DW, DW everywhere makes her want to run in the other direction. i feel weird about not crossposting because i also don't want to deny my flist my content to draw them over here (something else there is griping about from an anti-DW faction). but hey, this _is_ my new home. it'll mostly shake out with DW making cross-site communications easier, so i am not going to push anything.
now, i could have done this on LJ any time, but generally i did it rarely, and only when somebody's linked post had really inspired me in some way. i really like that dreamwidth has split the old friends list into access and subscribe. yeah, i am sure there will be wank about that too, some people will get just as upset at somebody not granting them the same level of access that they grant, but it does take some of that general angst away. and the mere removal of the word "friend" emboldens me to subscribe to anyone i care to, because it no longer seems so fraught with unintended meaning. "subscribe" is perfectly neutral and reflects what i am doing pretty well.
i am not going to crosspost this. i am worried that my LJ flist will get annoyed with all the dreamwidth squeeing; one person has already griped about how DW, DW, DW everywhere makes her want to run in the other direction. i feel weird about not crossposting because i also don't want to deny my flist my content to draw them over here (something else there is griping about from an anti-DW faction). but hey, this _is_ my new home. it'll mostly shake out with DW making cross-site communications easier, so i am not going to push anything.
