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[wingedcatgirl]

we aten't dead, as it were, but we continue to have very little to say and what little we do have to say tends to go on twitter

perhaps we should wrangle more of our friends and acquaintances into creating dreamwidth accounts ...

(the goal has always been "click dreamwidth when i want social interaction the way i currently click twitter and used to click tumblr", but when i only have like 24 blogs to follow and most of them are apparently in a similar situation...)

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[wingedcatgirl]

Part of me wants to say "24 is a fine number, actually"

but actually, no.

[brin_bellway]

24 *active* blogs would be a fine number, but 24 is not the number of active blogs.

A lot of people who tried out Dreamwidth in December didn't stay here. On the one hand I can't really blame them: I didn't stick around most of the platforms *I* researched then, plus "abstract free-speech principles" is a less compelling reason to make your home here than "I personally talk about weird sex sometimes, and historically, once people start putting censorship restrictions on sexuality hypno-fetishists are ~second on the list".

(I saw somebody on what's left of hypno-fetish Tumblr† respond to the Patreon thing with something like "they're cracking down on us because of those shady manipulative hypnotists that try to pull shit like hypnotizing you into buying their stuff, this is because we weren't good enough at kicking the assholes out of our community", and I wanted to scream. That's not how this works! That's *never* been how this works! Ethical or unethical, fluffy or dark, bottom or top, *the censors don't care*! As far as they're concerned, we are *all* rapists!)

Twitter does seem popular, for reasons that I've never really been able to grok myself. (I like to make relatively long posts, with plenty of embedded links to provide context.) I've been seeing a fair few people on Mastodon, which I've poked at but never really posted on. The amount of Pillowfort I'm seeing is currently only slightly worrisome (I Cannot handle a site as fundamentally hostile to archiving as Pillowfort is), but I suspect that's mostly because Tumblr is still limping along: when it finally collapses, Pillowfort is currently a major contender for who will be picking up the slack.

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I've been surprised by how *much* I have to say, personally. I've been holding that bug post in reserve for like three weeks, waiting until there was a lull (so that I could spread my posts out more evenly).

And while Dreamwidth doesn't *always* deliver social interaction, there have been many mornings where my usual morning video-game time was shortened or absent because I ended up writing a Dreamwidth comment/post instead. (Indeed, this is happening right now.) Many of them have been in response to comments on my posts, so maybe there's some "if you build it, they will come" going on there.

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I've been doing the occasional wikiwalk, wandering through friends-of-friends to see if I can find more people to add. It's a minefield of SJ Discourse out there, but then so is Tumblr, and I did find mindstalk recently.

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†Quite a few of them are currently flying under the radar by sticking to text, audio, and [images that are only sexual when viewed through kink goggles].

[wingedcatgirl]

>we weren't good enough at kicking the assholes out of our community

I can't decide whether that's more or less ridiculous than blaming anti-shippers for it.

>wandering through friends-of-friends to see if I can find more people to add

I *should* do that when I get some time. Nearly everyone I follow here is from the rationalist-adjacent-adjacent community, which... actually, maybe I don't follow enough of those? Considering most of my *Twitter* follows are the "cutesy polyam trans mostly-but-not-exclusively girls" community, and my Tumblr follows barely exist enough to count at all.

Still, I'd rather be in more than just one community. Or one per site.

[sigmaleph]

i like the content i get on dreamwidth, but yeah it's substantially less active than my tumblr or even mastodon

it's not a good distraction box but maybe that's for the better

[contrarianarchon]

I like dreamwidth and I post stuff I want to post to the internet here, but also I don't have that much to say (I tend to be reactive rather than active in content generation, so I do a lot of discord arguments). I like many of the people who are here, and respond to stuff.

I should try and make more posts which are one-or-two sentence thoughts, I suppose?

(Maybe you should cross-post thoughts?)

I never understood twitter, but I suspect I mostly see the worst of it. To be fair, I never understood any "social media" prior to dreamwidth - my tumblr is just content aggregation of people I never interact with. Pillowfort just seems bad.