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State of the Dreamwidth Blog
September 21st, 2023 02:35 pmHello all! Long time, no general chatter, huh?
As I've kind of mentioned on The Platform Previously Known As Twitter, I've been thinking about getting back into DW blogging. I took a hiatus from twitter for half of July and basically all of August, and I am still trying to use twitter only sparingly. Everyone talks about moving to another platform and seems to be looking for twitter-alikes, but I don't want a twitter-alike. What I've wanted for years is a mobile-friendly LJ-clone with better global tagging and tag searching, across both individual accounts and its version of communities. But we're never gonna get that, because most social media users don't want longform blogging, so here we are.
When I was the best at keeping up this blog, I updated once per week with what was basically a digest of my life's happenings over the past seven days. And while I'd love to have a record of how I spend my time that's a more specific and less dry than my calendar, I'm not really interested in putting myself quite so out there on the internet any more. These days, any life updates that are more than just glancingly personal will almost definitely have a friendslock.
( Instead, there are two main things I want to blog about )
As I've kind of mentioned on The Platform Previously Known As Twitter, I've been thinking about getting back into DW blogging. I took a hiatus from twitter for half of July and basically all of August, and I am still trying to use twitter only sparingly. Everyone talks about moving to another platform and seems to be looking for twitter-alikes, but I don't want a twitter-alike. What I've wanted for years is a mobile-friendly LJ-clone with better global tagging and tag searching, across both individual accounts and its version of communities. But we're never gonna get that, because most social media users don't want longform blogging, so here we are.
When I was the best at keeping up this blog, I updated once per week with what was basically a digest of my life's happenings over the past seven days. And while I'd love to have a record of how I spend my time that's a more specific and less dry than my calendar, I'm not really interested in putting myself quite so out there on the internet any more. These days, any life updates that are more than just glancingly personal will almost definitely have a friendslock.
( Instead, there are two main things I want to blog about )
