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Sun, Apr. 19th, 2009, 09:08 pm

[identity profile] lovelokest.livejournal.com: Sunday, April 19, 2009

Mon, Apr. 20th, 2009, 05:19 pm
[identity profile] zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com

This entry wasn't posted to metafandom on Dreamwidth.
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    • Tue, Apr. 21st, 2009, 03:52 am
    [identity profile] loveanddarkness.livejournal.com

    Of course not. It doesn't have codes so people aren't glomping onto it to go namesquat or guard 'communities' from being poached or be a BNF or pretend to be a BNF.

    Dreamwidth = Mackay's Madness of Crowds.

    There is no *reason* for it, like there was a reason for a journal service as an improvement over usenet and mail lists.

    They can't "protect" fans or "free speech" any better under US laws than any other service out there. What, are they going to be more earnest about it? Hire better lawyers? Stomp their little feet?
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      • Tue, Apr. 21st, 2009, 04:27 am
      [identity profile] zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com

      Well, metafandom is currently posting to Dreamwidth, so I thought they might like to know something went wrong with their crossposting process.
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        • Wed, Apr. 22nd, 2009, 03:29 am
        [identity profile] jennem.livejournal.com

        Shhhhh. No using logic. Its not allowed!
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          • Sun, Apr. 26th, 2009, 10:03 pm
          [identity profile] metafandombot.livejournal.com

          coming in extremely belatedly (oh dear God, I wish I had seen some of this as it was going on to be able to step in) what actually happened was that we had only just started to crosspost to Dreamwidth at this point and lovelokest had somehow missed getting the right posting accesses set up yet.
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            • Mon, Apr. 27th, 2009, 02:17 pm
            [identity profile] zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com

            No big, I figured it was something like that.

            Sun, Apr. 26th, 2009, 10:03 pm
            [identity profile] metafandombot.livejournal.com

            and, er, that was fairestcat. Sorry.

            Sun, Apr. 26th, 2009, 11:10 pm
            [identity profile] cesy.livejournal.com

            I may be repeating things other people have already said to you, but I see several "reasons for Dreamwidth". Most of them aren't related to fandom at all, but general blogging, and are because this is a code fork, not a clone, and it's being actively developed.

            There is integration with OpenID, which is important for people using other blogging platforms. There is the ability for all users (not just paid users) to create feeds, which is similarly useful. There are higher limits on posts, which is just as useful for people wanting to post essays or get into detailed debates as it is for people writing fanfiction. There is an import tool which is useful for backups. There will soon be the ability to read locked posts across sites, which will enable me to keep in touch more easily with the friends who moved to IJ. There is also a welcoming attitude towards new developers, which I have not found at any other Open Source project I have looked at. As a fairly new programmer who is keen on Open Source, that is a big draw for me. There is also the split of subscribe/access, which is useful for me to follow blogs I like without having to give them access to my private life. I could do this with filters before, but the new way is much easier. Most of these are incremental changes, rather than the huge change from Usenet, bulletin boards or mailing lists, but taken together, they are enough for my primary site / feeling of "home" to move, though I will still keep up with the old one, just as I still keep up with my mailing lists.

            I also haven't seen any claims by Dreamwidth that they will "protect" anything other than US law. I have seen a claim that they will stick to US law rather than an ignorant paranoid guess at it, but that is rather different.