elusiveat

Discussion Topic: Social Networks and Finding New People (cross-post)

Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:32:46 GMT

(This is a re-post of a question I posted to the Social Media Design community.)

One thing I've been thinking about lately is how I no longer know how to find new friends on the internet.

I work through my existing social networks to the extent that I can, but I'm interested in meeting entirely new people with similar interests to my own.

How do you meet new people online? Are there ways that social network tools could make it easier?

Comments here:
https://social-media-design.dreamwidth.org/1160.html

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Poll/discussion: friends-of-friends

Thu, 27 Dec 2018 13:17:14 GMT

One of the shifts in internet culture that has occurred over the past ten to fifteen years is the degree to which people are willing to make their ideas public. This is notable on Dreamwidth, where a lot of accounts are locked down entirely, and it can be hard to make new connections (certainly harder than it used to be on Livejournal).

An idea I've heard kicked around as a possible middle ground for privacy would be to allow a privacy level that was visible to people trusted by the people you trust, or possibly separated by more degrees of separation, something you might call a "friends-of-friends" access level (though the "friends" nomenclature presents problems of its own). I believe this exact setting exists (or existed) on Facebook, but with the number and (number of different types) of people I had on *my* Facebook friends list, I regarded that option as essentially meaningless, so never used it.

The situation might be different on Dreamwidth or similar platforms.

What do you think?

View Poll: friends-of-friends

Discuss.

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Poll: What color are blueberries?

Tue, 18 Dec 2018 15:35:35 GMT

Inspired by an LJ poll from December 16, 2007 ('tis the season, I guess?).

View Poll: blueberries

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Progress report

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:53:53 GMT

To do:
1) ~~Create a public-persona username on dreamwidth.~~ Done: http://myfirstname-mylastname.dreamwidth.org
2) ~~Create LJ syndication of public-persona dreamwidth blog.~~ Done: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/myfirstname-mylastname/
3) ~~Make elusiveat.dreamwidth and elusiveat.livejournal into friendslist/accesslist-only accounts.~~ Revision: Leaving posts relevant to LJ -> DW switch unlocked.
4) Cross-post recent public journal posts to new public account.
5) Publicize new account via Facebook.
6) Post future public posts to new account ONLY. Continue to post personal (locked) stuff to elusiveat accounts.

Please comment if you have any thoughts, concerns, or input. If all goes well, I will probably be using elusiveat as a dry-run for potential public posts, and will be soliciting feedback on specific posts at that time.

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dreamwidth, OpenID, and comments with links

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:25:26 GMT

So, the Dreamwidth folk seem to be of the view that if they permit OpenID commenters to include html hyperlinks then the site will be taken over by spammers. If you have an opinion on this, you might want to take a look here:
http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/183199.html

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OpenID on Dreamwidth

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:59:08 GMT

It's actually very easy to get logged onto Dreamwidth using OpenID. (Although as Squirrelitude notes there are apparently some bugs regarding RSS subscriptions through OpenID.

The following steps are actually rather self-explanatory after you get past step 2, but I included all of them just in case.

Here's what you do:
1) Go to http://www.dreamwidth.org/update
2) Click on the link to the right of the log in text box that says "Log in with OpenID"
3) This takes you to a page with a bit of information about OpenID and what it is. Enter your OpenID URL in the textbox (if you're using LJ for your OpenID, you should be able to use username.livejournal.com.
4) Click the "Login" button, which redirects you to livejournal.com, where you can log onto your account to confirm that it really is you trying to log on to Dreamwidth.
5) Click one of the "yes" buttons.
6) (Optional) Comment here to confirm that it works!

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Adventures in blogging (remarks and questions)

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:01:09 GMT

1) I'm going to try in earnest to switch over to Dreamwidth as my primary blogging site.

2) I have three invite codes for Dreamwidth accounts. Comment if you would like one.

3) I am also trying to start actually using an RSS aggregator so that I read blogs outside of DW/LJ, rather than just pretending I'm going to.

4) What blogs should I subscribe to? What non-LJ blogs do you guys have that I should be reading?

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