https://catecumen.dreamwidth.org/ CatEcumen the Ecumenical Cat - Dreamwidth Studios Fri, 01 May 2009 01:30:10 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios catecumen personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/916940/121712 https://catecumen.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://catecumen.dreamwidth.org/1358.html Fri, 01 May 2009 01:30:10 GMT https://catecumen.dreamwidth.org/1358.html Congratulations to Dreamwidth on beginning the open beta! I was about to sign up for a month trial account, but the system is currently insisting on the creation of a PayPal account (which I refuse to do - PayPal has been hacked WAY too many times) so I'm going to wait until I can pay direct without going through PayPal, but I will be supporting this site with at least a short-term paid membership. (The Dreamwidth folks are already aware of the problem.) It's exciting to be even a very small part of this!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=catecumen&ditemid=1358" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://catecumen.dreamwidth.org/1358.html dreamwidth public 0 https://catecumen.dreamwidth.org/1062.html Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:00:45 GMT https://catecumen.dreamwidth.org/1062.html Countdown - 12 hours to the OPEN beta - this isn't even MY project and I'm excited anyway!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=catecumen&ditemid=1062" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://catecumen.dreamwidth.org/1062.html dreamwidth excited public 0 https://catecumen.dreamwidth.org/662.html Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:21:09 GMT https://catecumen.dreamwidth.org/662.html One of the things I like about the design of Dreamwidth is the redesignation of what has been traditionally called "friending" at LJ and its clones, and the clarification of the difference between subscribing to someone on a reading list versus claiming that person as a personal friend. "Unsubscribing" doesn't sound as rejecting as "unfriending," either.<br /><br />As a recent article about following a celebrity on Twitter noted, following someone's public postings doesn't mean that you <i>know</i> them, although it can create an illusion that you do.<br /><br />I have subscribed to a number of writers/bloggers from fandom who have created journals here, and the majority of those are people I don't know IRL at all, and therefore can neither like nor dislike, trust or mistrust, value or fail to value as individual human beings, but whose posts I simply enjoy <i>reading.</i> Most of these will not be given access to whatever non-public posts I might make here in the future (haven't made any yet), nor will I expect access to their non-public posts either. I am hoping that Dreamwidth is going to be a sufficiently sophisticated and understanding environment that there won't be lots of drama happening as more and more people who join will do what I'm doing here, setting up a reading list of people who have interesting things to say that I would like to read, without claiming that they are somehow my personal friends just because I like to read what they write.<br /><br />Still, if anyone is offended that I subscribed to you, please do feel free to let me know. Thanks!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=catecumen&ditemid=662" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://catecumen.dreamwidth.org/662.html dreamwidth reading subscribing public 0