Question

[snurri]

What's the deal with this Dreamwidth thing?

If someone could explain in a hundred words or less I'd be very grateful.

Comments

[glvalentine.livejournal.com]

It's an LJ clone that promises not to pull the power plays LJ has been pulling; everyone's frantically squatting on their usernames (myself included) and then waiting to see if this is a flash in the pan or the Myspace-to-Facebook exodus.

[gchick.livejournal.com]

New journaling/blogging site, based on LJ code, but with a lot of functional improvements -- not just a clone like some of the other LJ alternatives have been. Fandom-friendly and geek-friendly, but not designed to be only for fandom. Many smart people, no ads.

That was nowhere *near* 100.

I'm not helping

[madolan.livejournal.com]

A dream is a width your waist makes.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

DreamWidth is a fork of LJ that closely resembles LJ back when it was young and idealistic and hadn't had to start paying the bandwidth bills. There seems to be a widespread belief on my friend list that DreamWidth farts unicorns, makes you more attractive to the opposite sex, and combats global warming.

So far, one of their improvements strikes me as a regression, and the rest aren't worth the extra $10 for a yearly subscription, so I am sitting tight.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

If I have to keep up with Dreamwidth _and_ LJ I might take it as the opportunity I've been seeking to just fucking unplug and go have a real life.