I was dragonlady7 on Livejournal from 2001 until about 2012ish when i left it.
Dreamwidth just works like an old code fork of Livejournal from before SixApart took over. It's an open-source version of the platform. So it's not very full of modern social media frills, and works the way old social media used to, where if you wanted it to do anything fancy you had to make it do the fancy things yourself. But it also didn't collect your information to sell it, so. But someone following you on Dreamwidth doesn't particularly give them any access to you. I just subscribed because I remember I used to follow you on LJ, though I honestly don't particularly remember who you were. All "subscribing" means is that if I look at my reading page, your entries would show up there. It's not sinister, it just means I would read your public entries along with those of every other person and community I'm subscribed to. If you "grant access" to me, then that means that if you post things friends-locked, I'd be able to be included on the list, though you can further customize that and make it accessible only to people you specifically include.
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Date: 2024-11-24 01:14 am (UTC)Dreamwidth just works like an old code fork of Livejournal from before SixApart took over. It's an open-source version of the platform. So it's not very full of modern social media frills, and works the way old social media used to, where if you wanted it to do anything fancy you had to make it do the fancy things yourself. But it also didn't collect your information to sell it, so.
But someone following you on Dreamwidth doesn't particularly give them any access to you. I just subscribed because I remember I used to follow you on LJ, though I honestly don't particularly remember who you were. All "subscribing" means is that if I look at my reading page, your entries would show up there. It's not sinister, it just means I would read your public entries along with those of every other person and community I'm subscribed to. If you "grant access" to me, then that means that if you post things friends-locked, I'd be able to be included on the list, though you can further customize that and make it accessible only to people you specifically include.