Neat Dreamwidth Things

Sun, 23 Dec 2018 23:02:19 GMT

Did you know you can have subgroups for your reading page?

Did you know that tags on Dreamwidth are hierarchical, and can be easily globally renamed, merged, deleted, and given privacy levels, all in one spot?

Did you know that Dreamwidth's communities are essentially the equivalent of sideblogs?

These cool facts, and more, in this really cool series written by potofsoup!

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Do you feel like reblogging something someone said, but are tragically stymied by Dreamwidth's lack of reblog function? Check out metaquotes! This is a community dating back to the days of LJ; back in the day, instead of reblogging our pithy quotes and entertaining shitposts, we shared them with the audience at metaquotes.

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Finally, most of my followers probably already know this, but if you're here from rattumblr, check out rationalistdiaspora for all your finding people needs.

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The Obligatory Introduction Post

Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:44:18 GMT

Hello everyone! This is an introduction post! I'm Sophus, and if you know me it's probably from the Amentumblr RP, as that's the biggest public creative work I've made to date. I was the mun of artistic-arborealist, and additionally crinolinegumdrops, rivers-out-to-sea, cheerycheeryneverweary, and emptyworldsuntainted.

I can also be found on Discord, at Sophus#7079, on tumblr at sophus-b, and my Ao3 and FF.net usernames are Sophus and sophusb respectively.

It looks like tumblr management was successful in torching their own property; a good third of the people whose blogs I read there have left for better managed sites, never to return. Thus, I'll be crossposting any original content I write both here and there until the hellsite’s corpse finishes cooling.

On the bright side, I like the look of the hierarchical tagging here! I'm still figuring it out, but it looks like going back and editing tags after the fact is actually functional here ~~unlike the hellsite~~, so experimenting shouldn't be too painful.

Speaking of tagging, my undertstanding is that putting content warning in the tags on Dreamwidth is less than useless. Thus, I will put anything Ao3 would consider Archive Warning worthy behind a cut, and otherwise, I'll see if putting something like [content warning: [list of warnings]] in the text of relevant posts works with the existing filtering solutions.

The one thing I really miss here from the hellsite is the like button; it was nice to have a low spoons way to show my appreciation of someone's post without having to produce Actual Words.

I've anecdotally heard that some people are using comments with only "+1" and/or "<3" as a kludgy equivalent. I hope that does get picked up by the site culture here; I love positive feedback in any form, and I know many other people do too, so a solution that makes it easier to give positive feedback would be lovely.

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Neat Dreamwidth Things

The Obligatory Introduction Post