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Dec. 25th, 2022 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
len_devlamingI was a livejournal user from maybe 2003 to 2013. In the process I accumulated I'll say ~100ish electronic friends, a lot of them around chicago, and generally had a fine time including a couple of live meetups.
I started using Facebook in probably 2007, back when the entries were all "Len is feeling..." and then a response. (It took me a while to reconstruct why the early entries look so bizarre). I started using it because everyone around me in the office was raving about using it to connect with old friends and schoolmates, and that's mostly what I used it for. So the two platforms were very different for at least a few years: lj was to talk with lj people, and fb was to talk to fb people.
Except eventually a lot of lj people migrated over to fb and stayed there. this was at least partially due to a couple of ownership transfers and evidence of increasing russian interference, plus as the site grew it got more clunky and overmoderated. Doubtless lots of other reasons. A couple of years ago I transferred all my (pseudonymous) lj-content to dreamwidth just so I wouldn't lose the archive, and there it has sat.
But holy smokes do I HATE facebook. Ratio of friend content to ads and media is maybe, MAYBE 50/50; I don't see all my friends posts due to the selection algorithm and there's no way to force it to do so; and Zuckerberg and his megabuck ilk are problematic characters that I don't wish to support.
Twitter is clearly not the answer! MeWe is clearly not the answer! A few of us tried WT Social a few years back but it never really gelled and I found the interface pretty bad. So, here I am back at dreamwidth with a fresh account in my own name to try it out. The only problem is how to get my entire facebook feed to migrate over at the same time, so then I'd never have to use facebook again.
The interface is pretty outdated but appears to handle rich text, polls,tags, tables and embedding HTML if you want it. The only downside I see so far after 15 min of fooling around is that image management is a bit complicated; this needs a bit more investigating.
I started using Facebook in probably 2007, back when the entries were all "Len is feeling..." and then a response. (It took me a while to reconstruct why the early entries look so bizarre). I started using it because everyone around me in the office was raving about using it to connect with old friends and schoolmates, and that's mostly what I used it for. So the two platforms were very different for at least a few years: lj was to talk with lj people, and fb was to talk to fb people.
Except eventually a lot of lj people migrated over to fb and stayed there. this was at least partially due to a couple of ownership transfers and evidence of increasing russian interference, plus as the site grew it got more clunky and overmoderated. Doubtless lots of other reasons. A couple of years ago I transferred all my (pseudonymous) lj-content to dreamwidth just so I wouldn't lose the archive, and there it has sat.
But holy smokes do I HATE facebook. Ratio of friend content to ads and media is maybe, MAYBE 50/50; I don't see all my friends posts due to the selection algorithm and there's no way to force it to do so; and Zuckerberg and his megabuck ilk are problematic characters that I don't wish to support.
Twitter is clearly not the answer! MeWe is clearly not the answer! A few of us tried WT Social a few years back but it never really gelled and I found the interface pretty bad. So, here I am back at dreamwidth with a fresh account in my own name to try it out. The only problem is how to get my entire facebook feed to migrate over at the same time, so then I'd never have to use facebook again.
The interface is pretty outdated but appears to handle rich text, polls,tags, tables and embedding HTML if you want it. The only downside I see so far after 15 min of fooling around is that image management is a bit complicated; this needs a bit more investigating.
