Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

Denise just posted urging Dreamwidth users to confirm their email addresses, to help with anti-spam efforts, and also specifically asked people to share that post with friends, especially those who haven't been on Dremwidth lately, so:

https://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/41273.html

umadoshi just posted a fresh link to her pretty comprehensive guide to using Dreamwidth. It's not official, but includes some links to things that are.

She reposted, and I'm linking to it, because the apparent imminent collapse of Twitter means some people will be looking for other social media sites. DW is not Twitter (which is part of why I like it here, and rarely post(ed) there), but scratches some of the same itch.

I'm giving away a couple of months of paid Dreamwidth account time, to one lucky person, who I will select at random. You can enter the drawing by commenting below.

(I'm doing this mostly because I want to give the money to Dreamwidth, and I have a seed account.)

The owners of LJ have changed their terms of service again, and from what I can see I am not happy (the things I can see include that there is no official/binding version of the TOS in a language I can read, only in Russian), and that users aren't supposed to post anything that would count as either political or pornographic by Russian law.

I suspect that my user bio on LJ, let alone some of my entries, qualifies as one or the other, since I'm openly bisexual.

They're also changing where they put advertising, and I think claiming greater rights to republish material. (I've been sort-of reading about this along with dealing with other things, including calling the governor's office about a bill that I think Putin would dislike.)

I'm not deleting anything immediately, in part because I assume SUP already have it all backed up on a server in Russia, but this may be the last cross-posted entry; in any case, anything friends-only/filtered is likely to be Dreamwidth-only from now on.

If you're on my friendslist on LJ, please tell me your DW username so I can add you here.

ETA: The cross-post failed, and my current attempt to make a similar post directly over there, and update my profile, failed; the status page says LJ is undergoing "planned" maintenance right now.

I just came across a post suggesting that http://tineye.com can link icons used on different sites, e.g., Dreamwidth and Google+. Just in case, I have grabbed a different old image of me (also from 2007) as a G+ icon, and am going to use the trilobite as default for a few days here.

If you want an alternative or backup while LJ is dealing with DDoS attacks (from spammers, or because of Russian politics, or whatever the motives turn out to be), or are just curious, here are some Dreamwidth invite codes. Help yourself (or pass them to your friends and relations, if you like). It would be convenient if you mentioned any you use.

2T86NRSFBKCQWAAAJHKC
FNTM3RBA6KTW6AAAJHKD
9HWTDSWEEW9V9AAAMEJ8
VGBS728D2ST3QAAAMZ6T
755E6DZZGJABZAAABP4W (The system says I sent this one to someone in June 2009, but it was never used)

I was going to try writing a bunch of stuff for the "three weeks for dreamwidth" festival. The idea of that is to put more DW-only content up, to encourage people to read here. (Anything so tagged/dedicated isn't supposed to be crossposted, to LJ or anything else, for three weeks after it's posted on DW. Pointers are cool, of course.) Broadly speaking, I like that idea, because I want my friends to come over here and play.

In practice, I haven't been doing it, because I don't want my friends not to see what I'm writing now. In particular, I'm sharing the ongoing narrative of my life, and I want you to know that (or as much of it as interests you), and a three-week gap there wouldn't help.

It turns out (no surprise, now that I think about it) that I care more about the people than the software or specific online context. I still miss rec.arts.sf.fandom, and alt.poly is not what it was, but I am still talking to a lot of you from those places, including on LJ/DW. (Some tech or sites are just too annoying; LJ doesn't come close to that for me, despite my problems with management there.)

I have now written one (1) such post. (It's over here.) I may or may not do more, but I will point to them if so.

I'm importing a bunch of stuff from LJ to Dreamwidth; if I have this set as I think I do, it will be grabbing almost everything, but only one icon (I have lots on LJ, and room for six on DW), and not the userinfo. (All these are options.)

I still probably won't crosspost everything, if only out of laziness and the ways that this client works. Is anyone actively working on posting clients for Dreamwidth, or updating the existing ones to crosspost better?

Instructions courtesy of http://kazbaby.dreamwidth.org/694994.html (who also has instructions on using this client just to post to Dreamwidth, since that's not in the automatic pulldown menu as of the most recent Semagic release--fair enough, it's still a closed beta, at http://kazbaby.dreamwidth.org/678686.html)

I'm likely to be cross-posting for a while, perhaps a very long while. Feel free to comment either place. (I don't have filters set up on Dreamwidth yet, so some things will likely be LJ-only until I get that sorted out. And sometimes I may forget to post there, or even here. So it goes.)

One note already: there's no place to enter tags with this configuration; I'm going to go back and add those at each website after it posts. But that will make me less likely to cross-post this way, rather than by copying and pasting.

I'm redbird over there as well, though tempted to also grab vr (and not just because my favorite fish suggested that two-letter usernames are sexy). I haven't set anything up there yet, except to add bugshaw, who kindly gave me an invite code, and livredor to my reading and trusted lists.

It's still in closed beta, which I'm interpreting as "not everything is here yet, not everything works right, and expect to hear hammers and smell sawdust."

If you'd like to add me, or like me to add you, let me know what name you're using there. They do openid, so exampleusername.livejournal.com will work for letting you see my posts. I'm screening replies here, but will unscreen if asked. Even if you've posted about Dreamwidth, I probably don't remember your username there.