Housekeeping

[laceblade]

There is this business of Dreamwidth. This post is not about my own posting habits (I have yet to utilize my DW account for regular posting), but rather about the way in which I follow you people.

Because I have friended many people both here and on Dreamwidth, I frequently become annoyed when I go to DW, as many posts there are ones I've already read here, and it is irritating to sort through them to find the ones I haven't read yet.

I hope to solve this problem with a poll. You are of course welcome to leave comments to this post, advising me where best to read you. Whether I follow you on DW or LJ, you will not lose "access" to my private posts in any way. However, I wish to only follow *your* posts in one place: LiveJournal or Dreamwidth.

And for the record, my public posts are still cross-posted to my blog, which is where this business began in the first place, almost a decade ago.

ETA: I have answered the poll myself for anyone wishing to confirm my own habits!

[Poll #1503067]

Comments

[wrdnrd]

Just to clarify my poll results. I am primarily over at DW, and if you're able to follow me there and comment it'd be awesome! I'm trying to cross-post to LJ less because it began to annoy me and i found that people still wouldn't come over to DW to comment anyway. However! I do occasionally post something exclusive to LJ because there's a core knot of people here with zero interest in DW and they're sometimes the people i really *need* to talk to with a post -- for example, all of my trip planning posts back in september and october wound up being on LJ only because some of my friends in England just don't interact with DW.

What i've done with my own journals to accomodate of the issues you're trying to navigate here is that i keep my DW people still friended on LJ (Jess and johanna, for example), but i've created a reading list that filters them OUT. I read DW first and usually see their posts there -- i don't want to come over here and see them *again*.

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

Your latter paragraph is basically what I'm doing - I experience LJ through filters, so I'll be able to keep people friended, having access to my locked posts, but will be able to take their posts off my Friends List if I've already seen their posts at DW.

I think I'll probably watch you at DW and not LJ, as it seems you're more firmly established there......if there's something urgent for me to see at LJ, you will have to let me know!

[wrdnrd]

Yeah, i suspected that's how you were going to handle your reading lists -- your usage of filters seems about as robust as my own. I'm glad you made this post so we could talk about it, so i'll know to nudge you if i ever need to make an LJ-exclusive post. Or, now that i think about it, what i'll probably wind up doing in such an event is simply posting at DW that there's a post here.

Hey, i sent you an email last week -- did it arrive? No worries if it did and you haven't had a chance to reply, i'm more checking just to make sure it didn't get filtered into spam!

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

It did arrive! I just fail at replying.