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Oct. 31st, 2015 08:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7So-- I'm making a long post here, and manually linking it to my Tumblr, to manually link back here from my Tumblr, to maybe get some of the people over there making noise about trying to use a website that supports actual interaction again to come interact with me here.
Because I'm lonely there, so lonely.
This will probably crosspost automatically to my LJ but if it doesn't, I'll have to figure that out.
Some people are super good at making things like this work. I'm not.
Over here I literally have no one on my reading list who updates. I thought i had subscribed to a bunch of people, but I don't know if I really have; I also don't know if they really update. That's the confusion. But literally no one posts on my reading page, which means that either nobody uses this site who I've followed, or I followed them wrong.
C'est la vie, as a confused-not-good-user-of-technology.
So I'm trying to add people who I've seen on Tumblr mention that they have DWs, but I'm really not sure that actually works? I'm trying.
What prompted this?
I was going through an old external hard-drive, with manual backups of my old computers on it, and I found a little banner someone had made back when everyone was getting a DW account, and it said, "I survived Strikethrough '07!"
So I posted it on Tumblr, and it has gone around enough that i now see it back on my feed again.
I wish I had some idea who originally made it, I'd credit them, but of course, I don't know. And that highlights one of the issues with LJ/DW; I clearly downloaded that gif to re-share it, because i wanted to post it in support of its creator, whoever that was-- but my only option was to save the file on my computer, and re-upload it myself.
Which is what preserved it, since I hadn't purged any of those types of files from that computer when it came time to scrape everything off it and get a new box, years ago.
But undoubtedly, wherever I'd posted it to actually share it, that's a broken link now, because who knows what hosting service I used.
Tumblr has things to offer, and the format of everyone standing around repeating jokes to one another has a major, major bonus to it-- that means you hear jokes that your friends find funny instead of them reacting to them in isolation and you not hearing it. So posts get a much wider audience. It's a great way to disseminate an idea.
But only if that idea is freestanding and short and stands on its own. You can't have a conversation.
I want to have a conversation. I haven't made any genuine new friends in years on Tumblr-- I have some people who send me lovely messages somewhat frequently, but I have honestly no idea who they are. Some handles I recognize and think, this person comments often, I sort of figure I'm friends with this person-- but many of those people never post any content of their own, only reblogs with brief commentary at best, so I have *no idea* if they are even human, let alone who they are.
And some of them are faithful rebloggers of my content, basically preaching the word of any fic I write-- it's so lovely, and so wonderful. But I have no idea who they are, because they've never shown me anything like a face, anything i can recognize; some even change their URLs and then I've no idea if I've ever known them before.
It's lonely, it's really lonely. That's all.
So here's an experimental longform post that I'll go manually link to from Tumblr, and that's going to wreak havoc with all the fucking auto-forwarding shit I tried to set up which doesn't *quite* do what I wanted-- and I'm sorry to anyone, if there is anyone, who reads my feed on either DW or LJ, because there's absolutely nothing I can do about the enormous fucking "missing image" link in every single post-- I didn't put it in, so I can't take it out. I don't know what it is, or how to change it. I don't understand why it's there.
And I know, if I reblog something, the whole thing comes over a jumbled mess and there's no way at all to tell what part of it *I* actually wrote-- and if I write something long, it just truncates with no explanation. So that's obnoxious.
I'll have to undo it or redo it or fix it or something, but given that setting it up reduced me to incoherent tears, I'm not in a hurry to do it.
Because I'm lonely there, so lonely.
This will probably crosspost automatically to my LJ but if it doesn't, I'll have to figure that out.
Some people are super good at making things like this work. I'm not.
Over here I literally have no one on my reading list who updates. I thought i had subscribed to a bunch of people, but I don't know if I really have; I also don't know if they really update. That's the confusion. But literally no one posts on my reading page, which means that either nobody uses this site who I've followed, or I followed them wrong.
C'est la vie, as a confused-not-good-user-of-technology.
So I'm trying to add people who I've seen on Tumblr mention that they have DWs, but I'm really not sure that actually works? I'm trying.
What prompted this?
I was going through an old external hard-drive, with manual backups of my old computers on it, and I found a little banner someone had made back when everyone was getting a DW account, and it said, "I survived Strikethrough '07!"
So I posted it on Tumblr, and it has gone around enough that i now see it back on my feed again.
I wish I had some idea who originally made it, I'd credit them, but of course, I don't know. And that highlights one of the issues with LJ/DW; I clearly downloaded that gif to re-share it, because i wanted to post it in support of its creator, whoever that was-- but my only option was to save the file on my computer, and re-upload it myself.
Which is what preserved it, since I hadn't purged any of those types of files from that computer when it came time to scrape everything off it and get a new box, years ago.
But undoubtedly, wherever I'd posted it to actually share it, that's a broken link now, because who knows what hosting service I used.
Tumblr has things to offer, and the format of everyone standing around repeating jokes to one another has a major, major bonus to it-- that means you hear jokes that your friends find funny instead of them reacting to them in isolation and you not hearing it. So posts get a much wider audience. It's a great way to disseminate an idea.
But only if that idea is freestanding and short and stands on its own. You can't have a conversation.
I want to have a conversation. I haven't made any genuine new friends in years on Tumblr-- I have some people who send me lovely messages somewhat frequently, but I have honestly no idea who they are. Some handles I recognize and think, this person comments often, I sort of figure I'm friends with this person-- but many of those people never post any content of their own, only reblogs with brief commentary at best, so I have *no idea* if they are even human, let alone who they are.
And some of them are faithful rebloggers of my content, basically preaching the word of any fic I write-- it's so lovely, and so wonderful. But I have no idea who they are, because they've never shown me anything like a face, anything i can recognize; some even change their URLs and then I've no idea if I've ever known them before.
It's lonely, it's really lonely. That's all.
So here's an experimental longform post that I'll go manually link to from Tumblr, and that's going to wreak havoc with all the fucking auto-forwarding shit I tried to set up which doesn't *quite* do what I wanted-- and I'm sorry to anyone, if there is anyone, who reads my feed on either DW or LJ, because there's absolutely nothing I can do about the enormous fucking "missing image" link in every single post-- I didn't put it in, so I can't take it out. I don't know what it is, or how to change it. I don't understand why it's there.
And I know, if I reblog something, the whole thing comes over a jumbled mess and there's no way at all to tell what part of it *I* actually wrote-- and if I write something long, it just truncates with no explanation. So that's obnoxious.
I'll have to undo it or redo it or fix it or something, but given that setting it up reduced me to incoherent tears, I'm not in a hurry to do it.
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Date: 2015-10-31 12:35 pm (UTC)I hope you don't mind me friending you, though I'm going to do it on LJ. I have a DW too obviously but in all honestly I only started using it when LJ was glitching all the time and I thought I'd better back up my journals here in case those DoS attacks intensified.
But I don't know how to really use this place properly either, and I've always preferred LJ :)
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Date: 2015-10-31 12:49 pm (UTC)But I'll go poke LJ too. :)
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Date: 2015-10-31 12:52 pm (UTC)from: tardygrading
Date: 2015-10-31 05:35 pm (UTC)I'm not sure how the change in tumblr will work, but as I already had Dreamwidth and IFTTT, I thought to give the recipe a try.
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Date: 2015-11-01 04:13 am (UTC)You don't know me at all, because I read your Tumblr but don't have an account there at all (I never could get into the format -- too impersonal, and too visual-focused) so I am like a ghost friend you didn't know you had!
(Okay, I leave kudos on your fics, so I guess you have probably at some point in your existence seen my name... but my AO3 account and my DW account don't have the same name, so you've never seen this name before!)
Anyway: hi! I'm always delighted to find people on DW who share a fandom, even if they don't write awesome fics (which you do!).
As an introducing-myself bonus -- since we're pretty much strangers -- I have a profile, and an ask me something post for anything the profile doesn't cover. And I've been on DW for, uh... six years? Plus LJ before that, so if you have questions about DW stuff like reading lists or whatever, I can probably answer them! :) Welcome (back?) to DW(/LJ), and I hope you find many delightful conversations here!
Re: from: tardygrading
Date: 2015-11-01 11:39 am (UTC)Hiiiii!