thoughts of thinking

[catchmelike]

I am sort of confused by all of the options on dreamwidth (grant access, subscribe, whatever), and honestly that's always been one of my biggest problems with it. I treat my friends list as just that - a friends list; it's a list of people I enjoy being around and interacting with and want to be friends with. A "reading" list full of people who can follow me while not allowing me to follow them and vice versa feels way less personal to me, and I just don't like it.

Also not having a ton of icons. The thing that may keep me going back to Lj is that I DO have a permanent account, and while their attitude towards their user base frustrates and angers me ...I have 200+ icons, and I get all of the storage and features without having to constantly throw money at them. And I have thrown a lot of it. I had the money back then. I don't know if I have it in me to pour hundreds of dollars into another site that's really just a back up for me - a consolation prize so to speak. It doesn't feel the same. Maybe it eventually will but not just now.

I don't know. Just thinking thoughts or whatever.

Also can you install mood themes here? And how?

Comments

[eledhwenlin]

Hee. I think it's funny because during the first migration wave in 2009, people were all "yay, we can differentiate between reading/access, flist is a stupid word, anyway".

The thing is a lot of people do use it as a reading list and prefer not to give everyone access immediately. Each to their own, I guess.

It'll come with time! In the beginning, it was difficult because many people only saw DW as a back-up, but didn't actually post there. (I actually find DW more personal than LJ because you can comment on the latest dw_news entry and you get a reply. YMMV.)

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[catchmelike]

I remember that being one of the initial reasons I *didn't* want to move! I think it really just depends on your perception and what you use it for.

see, I don't really care about that. I rarely even LOOK at the news feeds unless someone on my flist mentions it. I like that they aren't condescending towards their userbase but I also think that should be a given.