Hey what about Dreamwidth?!

[firecat]

So Facebook is targeting certain individuals for not using their legal names, and as a result a lot of folks, especially queer folks, are signing up for other social media sites, especially ello.co. And some of them are saying they're going to go back to Livejournal. I signed up at ello too because I feel compelled to stake out my preferred name everywhere, and because a lot of my friends have joined. But I am really sad and annoyed that no one seems to be considering Dreamwidth as an alternative social media site. I trust Dreamwidth a lot more than ello.co (nothing against them, but I don't know the people running it) and more than LiveJournal (although I'm still cross-posting to LiveJournal).

Comments

[drememynd]

The people who run Ello are claiming that more privacy control was already planned for a future release. I hope so.

[jae]

They say they will eventually be offering "private accounts," like is already possible on Twitter, say. If ello is really going to be a substitute for Facebook for me, though, it has to have privacy settings that are like Facebook's (or dreamwidth's, for that matter), which allow you to control on a post-by-post basis who sees what, rather than deeming the whole account as either public or private.

-J

[sinanju]

And ideally NOT like Facebook in that they won't arbitrarily change the rules on you (warning optional). But then, as they say, if you're paying for the product you ARE the product, and concerns about privacy cut into their ability to sell you to advertisers.