Serene of the Oakland Serenes

What I just posted to Facebook (ooh, meta!):

I left Livejournal a while back after having been there since just before 9/11 (August of 2001, I think), then re-created my username for ease of commenting, but with this news, I think I'll start it back up again (at least as a mirror of my Dreamwidth journal) and see how it goes. I do often miss the community I found there, and the large handful of friends I have who hang out there rather than Facebook. Any thoughts about the revamp from LJ users?

I end up paddling around in all the social media pools, but nothing measures up to my Usenet/DW combo for satisfaction and conversation. Google disappointed me by being more evil than I thought about safety and pseudonymity; Facebook started off evil, and I tolerated it until I didn't any more (I still have work accounts there: one for my day job and one for the blog, but I completely deleted my personal account); Diaspora looks fine so far, but it doesn't give me anything I can't get here, so for the 11th year in a row (I started this journal on Livejournal a little over 10 years ago), this will be my main place to do my connecting thing.

I still miss Usenet. I'm down to really only reading three groups, and two of them get fewer than 50 posts a week most weeks. The other is too busy to completely keep up with, but the (absolutely necessary for me) robust killfile I have in there makes it easier.

I guess it's good that there's not more for me to keep up with, since school starts in a couple weeks, but I still kind of wish there were.

A friend had a post about the different online social venues she uses. I responded with a comment too long to fit into one comment space, so I figure I'll reproduce it here.

( More than you ever wanted to know about where I hang out online )

Returning to crossposting to LiveJournal, though I've really resisted making that my practice. I didn't anticipate how much it would bother me not to receive notifications when people comment on the syndicated-feed entries, and I do want my LJ friends to be able to read and comment, and I want to see their comments.

So, um, sorry for the inconvenience, and you LJ-ers can remove serene_at_dw from your feeds if you want.

Not saying you'll want to, necessarily, but if you wanted to follow my posts when I move to Dreamwidth in a couple weeks and don't want to be on Dreamwidth, you can friend serene_at_dw (thanks, epi_lj!). Right now, the plan is that all my posts on DW will be public, and certainly, they will always accept comments from people who don't have DW accounts.

Open letter to my friends who are crossposting from Dreamwidth:

If you ask me to go to Dreamwidth to comment on posts I see on LJ, you should be aware that it's not going to happen. If you disable comments on LJ in order to force me to go to DW and comment, not only won't I comment, but I will be annoyed with you. Just sayin'.

(Not that I'm self-important enough to think my annoyance is something that matters greatly to you; just offering you a datapoint.)