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

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From:

firecat

Interesting. FB and LJ/DW all feel like journals to me, because of the hierarchical "post + comments" interface. Usenet felt different. Twitter and Tumblr feel different.

From:

jiawen

I wish DW/LJ had some sort of "+1" / "thumbs up" / "upvote/downvote" system. Or, really, ideally, I'd like a bunch of smily faces along the bottom of a post so you can quickly click the "sympathy" face, the "laughing out loud" face, the "angry" face, etc. to express appropriate sympathy with what someone has said. I find that people (including me) often read posts, regardless of length, but don't have anything substantive to add, so they don't say anything... which adds to the "shouting loudly in an abandoned mine" feeling.

Beyond that, though, DW (and, to a lesser extent, LJ) have privacy settings that make them completely indispensable to me. FB is completely pointless to me, what with Mark Zuckerberg deciding whenever he feels like it to destroy people's privacy. G+'s circles seem slightly better, but not by much. For now, DW is my main social media platform, with LJ a close second and everything else a distant third.

From:

firecat

You could go vote for this:

http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/404806.html

A comment to that post says if you click "more options" on a comment you're writing, you can add an icon such as the thumbs up I added to this comment. That means several clicks instead of just one for FB though.