TiggyMalvern

My favorite ultra-specific character type is "this fucked up little man clearly just needs a consensual BDSM relationship and some therapy and he'd be fine, but that is very much not what happens in this story."

So it seems like some of you might be interested in learning more about Dreamwidth.

Listen, here's the thing: Dreamwidth is not slick. It is not fancy. Its base code was originally put together some two decades ago or more, and it looks like it. It can't do much with images and definitely not with video—like, I think there's some way to embed video, but I have no idea how to do it, and hosting it on Dreamwidth is, uh...

The point is! Dreamwidth is a lot different from Tumblr. It's closer to Tumblr than it is to Facebook or Instagram, but it's a lot more old-school internet than Tumblr is. And that means that, for anyone who wasn't on the internet some ten, fifteen years ago, there's probably going to be a steep learning curve. It can take more effort to post things there, and more effort to find your people, its image hosting capacity can charitably be described as both "limited" and "poorly organized", and overall it may still never be the kind of website where you, personally, will want to spend a lot of time or do a lot of things. Dreamwidth does not and will never have an app, for pretty much the same reasons as AO3.

But there is one thing I can guarantee, and that is that Dreamwidth is willing to fight for us and our rights. They're already doing so.

Since this post isn't super specific in terms of facts I'm gonna be just adding some off the top of my head! (More at OP's link, this is just for the 'first glance pls' crowd)

Dreamwidth is predominantly text. Your feed will not be as visual as on Tumblr. -> You can embed videos from e.g. YouTube, and you can post your own images/video, but Dreamwidth itself cannot host the images/video (like Tumblr can), so you will need to host them somewhere else, like imgur, and upload via link in the New Post editor.

Dreamwidth's New Post editor is very similar to Tumblr's. You can work in Rich Text (click buttons to do all the formatting), or HTML (code all formatting manually).

Your feed is similar to Tumblr's. You see the posts from the people and communities you follow, most recent first, and only those. -> When reading, you can filter your feed (Reading page) and see only posts from people, or only posts from Communities.

No reblogging. Everything you post on your blog stays on your blog. It will be seen by fewer people -- this is a pro and a con. It will never spread wildly out of your control, and nobody can add anything to your posts.

Multiple levels of privacy. You can set your entries viewable to everyone, just friends, or just you, on an entry-by-entry basis. It can be changed after posting. Within "just friends", you can create more defined filters, and e.g. show an entry only to your Severance fan friends and not to your 911 fan friends. Or whatever.

There are comment sections under each post! You can delete comments on your entries. (You can also write very long comments. Up to 16k characters.)

Thank you for the at-a-glance summary! I do have two minor corrections to make, and one addition.

First, Dreamwidth does have its own image hosting, it's just non-intuitive for anyone used to Tumblr or Facebook or Instagram or what-have-you. Free users get 500 MB, which is not a lot for artists; paid users get 1.5 GB, and premium paid users get 3 GB. You can only embed images uploaded to Dreamwidth on Dreamwidth. Find out more about Dreamwidth's image hosting at this link. Again, this isn't really a lot of space for artists, and to the best of my knowledge there currently isn't a way to buy more storage space; your best bet may be to set up an account at squidge.org to host images instead.

Second, there's no native reblogging feature. It is technically possible to do with the use of a third party script, but it's not something that's built into Dreamwidth. You can find out how to reblog things on Dreamwidth at this link. What it effectively does is copy the post to share on your own account, without informing the original poster, so it's not quite the same as a Tumblr reblog, but if reblogging is something you rely heavily on, you may like this workaround.

Third is something really cool about Dreamwidth's cut tags (the native "read more" feature): You can close them. You know how on Tumblr, the second you add a Read More, everything you put after that is under the Read More? Not so on Dreamwidth! If you close the cut tag, you can have more stuff that's visible outside it. You can even have multiple cut tags in a single entry! (And that's not getting into things like nested cut tags 👀)

If you have any other questions about Dreamwidth, I'll do my best to answer them! Message me or reply to one of my posts here, or come visit the community Newcomers on Dreamwidth, or the Tumblr community Dreamwidth Sharing, and we'll see if we can't help you out 👍

Welp, as long as I'm getting a lot of new eyes on me anyway: Let Me Tell You About Dreamwidth!

What can you do? Call your senators and tell them to vote “no” on this calamitous tax and budget bill. Congressional switchboard: (202) 224-3121. Beyond this, help ensure that senators who vote in favor of this monstrosity are booted out of the Senate as soon as they’re up for reelection.

I fucking hate it here

For those of you with android devices, you can use the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) standalone app control program to get rid of all the bloatware, data mining, and AI crap - no coding needed!

It really is wild that some politicians can stand there and say "yeah we're getting rid of a program that keeps quite literally millions of people alive specifically so we can cut taxes for people who are already richer than god" as if it's a normal political stance and not so cartoonishly evil I'm legit shocked perry the platypus doesn't break through the nearest wall the minute the words leave their mouth.

"I think rich people should have more money at the expense of a healthcare program millions of disabled people rely on" is not a coherent political belief it's the kind of thing the villian in a kids movie says. Gonna tell me you want to skin puppies to make a coat next?

I think if you say out loud you think billionaires need more money and we should kill disabled people to make it happen then every person in a 5ft radius should be legally obligated to punch you as hard as they can.

142 notes and not a single tag, reply, or comment. Y'all are really feeling this one, huh?

How to Disable and Remove All AI Features in Mozilla Firefox

*deep, calming breath* On the plus side, the steps at that link were very clear and easy to follow.

Important note: Definitely do Method Two. Method One will make the chat feature invisible, but it may pop up again; Method Two will make it go away entirely.

the name "theresa" is so funny like. theres a what

de naam 'eris' is zo grappig. er is wat?

Navnet "erik" er så spøgst. Han er ik hvad?

الإسم فيفي مهضوم كتير. في في شو؟

Göran är också kul. Gör han vadå?

tuomas tapani karhu on hassu nimi. tuomasta pani siis mikä?

Hey what happened to tht tower yall were building?

It's an egregious conflict of interest.

Asking AI for information is like asking your drunk uncle for information. Usually wrong, definitely untrustworthy, and a little bit racist.

when we say "Google used to work" we mean "Google used to be a tool that would direct you to reliable websites, such as government information sites, at the top of its results". Google no longer does that, because Google makes money now, and the way it makes money is to show you ads, and you don't increase the stats for the search tool and look at more ads if you leave Google and go to reference sites or government portals or encyclopedias or research papers. Google would rather you stayed on Google, so it gives you AI and ads and makes it hard to find anything trustworthy.

So, now you have to be your own old-Google. You have to think: Who knows this information? and: Where will they publish it?

I mean this as a directive. You have to learn to do this. You have to think: Do I need a visa for this country? Where will that information be made available by an official source? and take yourself to the government website. You have to think: Is my dentist open on a Saturday? and find your dentist's website, and call them up if they haven't put their hours online. You have to think: How long was Teresa May prime minister? and go to Wikipedia or the parliamentary website and work it out from there.

Consulting reliable sources is a necessary skill, and I'm sorry if you're only learning it now, I know that's a burden, but you can't get the real answers any other way.

You need to think: Where would the number for the financial aid office of my university be listed?

Because the number in the AI summary may be your university, but it sure as hell isn’t the financial aid office.

I just typed 'does australian need visa for chile' into duckduckgo. Every website listed on the first page gave the correct answer.

You should still use critical thinking to decide if the websites are likely to be reliable sources, but changing your search engine would be a good place to start.

The Trump-Republican budget bill is incredibly unpopular amongst voters — and for good reason. The problem is that many people don't know what's in it. Help inform them by sharing this post. And a reminder: The Capitol Switchboard is 202-224-3121. Let your representative know how you feel about it.

Even after some of it's been stripped out, there's still so much awful stuff in this bill it's next to impossible to know all of it. I hadn't heard that it ended IRS direct filing, for instance - that got buried under everything that was worse.

Someone in Idaho just lit a brush fire to set an ambush for responding firefighters. Multiple people are shot and some are still stuck out there. I don’t even have words.

No official press release yet, but it’s starting to show up on the news.

Two people confirmed dead, others injured. And there may be multiple shooters. Situation is still ongoing.

They’re saying this could turn into a multi-day incident if the situation is not handled soon.

The fire is still burning.

The Sheriff has basically said it’s now shoot to kill if the shooter(s) is found.

Latest reports say shooter has been found dead, apparently self-inflicted.

these were actually originally a set, dr nightlife and dr crashout with their emotional support bookbags

[simple video description: a person dances in a smooth, modern style while in a Double Dutch jump rope. Many times, their dance moves carry them over the rope without looking like they are leaving the ground, like sliding the feet up and over as the rope passes. The rope never catches on the dancer nor falters until they leave. A hip hop song play in the background. End VD.]

The song is "King Kunta" by Kendrick Lamar.

holy shit, that... like honestly it's sort of easier for me to believe this is somehow a clever illusion than that someone can physically do that, let alone make it look that effortless