Dreamwidth

[cellio]

Dreamwidth is an LJ-like site that entered open beta a few days ago. I'm there. I don't know how I'll use the account yet. I have a permanent account here on LJ so I'm not planning to go anywhere, but every time LJ has a kerfuffle I wonder what my fallback plan is, and Dreamwidth seems to be the winner there. It's run by ex-LJ people and seems to be a throwback to the ideals of early LJ, before the sale to Six Apart and then to SUP and the layoff of most of the staff. And they're fixing some of the suboptimal aspects of LJ, like the mingling of subscription and access rights into the ill-named "friend" relation.

I know a lot of my friends are setting up accounts there. Please let me know you're there.

It looks like Dreamwidth supports reading from LJ via OpenID. Does anyone know how to do the reverse? If some of my friends move to DW (as opposed to just mirroring there), what I'd really like to do is read their DW posts on my LJ reading page, using either my DW cookie (since I've got one) or my LJ OpenID. I have the vague impression that this sort of thing almost works. Can someone explain how?

A reminder to people who are moving there: if you give DW your LJ password so they can import your journal, you are compromising not only your own security (your choice) but also that of everyone who posts locked entries to which you have access. Be careful out there, ok?

Comments

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this. I'm seeing a lot of posts from friends saying they have Dreamwidth accounts (or that they aren't interested in DW accounts) but this is the first I've seen that wxplains some of the issues.

My strategy for the time being is to make sure my LJ is backed up, and apart from that, wait and see. So I'll be interested in any impressions you have of Dreamwidth.