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).

Crossposts: http://firecat.livejournal.com/843877.html

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

From:

jesse_the_k

Okay I'm really stuck in the 90s. How did you hear about Ello.co?

I want to encourage a tweet-is-as-good-as-a-blog community aesthetic in DW. God knows I need it. I feel restrained from posting unless I have at least 2000 characters.

Maybe we could come up with a game of sorts which would encourage brief answers?

From:

redbird

I don't feel a need for at least 2000 characters over here; I am glad not to have to squeeze things into 140. Twitter has me cutting posts shorter than I would like, and using abbrevs and & and so on to squeeze stuff in, and not saying things because I can't find a way to be clear in 140 characters.

From:

firecat

I heard about ello.co from some FB friends.

Yeah, I know what you mean, which is why I post linkspams now and not individual links.

Whatever happened to questionnaires and memes?

From:

selki

I've been meaning to post a survey but have a cross-posting dilemma. If I post a questionnaire on LJ, folks on DW won't see it unless they click through (and I have to add extra text explaining it), and vice versa.

Besides my decision paralysis, more likely it's because they have mostly moved to FB, where it was easier to re-share than from LJ/DW for a while IIRC.