Status: Bonded

It looks like a lot of Dishcord members are heeding the call that what they actually really want in today's modern social media hellscape is cool Dreamwidth blogging.

If that's you, hello! (Those who know about the Dishcord, know. Those who don't know should go watch Diminish.)

Anyway, I figured we could make a post for all Dishcord Dreamwidth refugees to find and add each other and get a big community thing going here. Reply to this post to make your presence known, browse the replies to find each other and such!

Apollo would be proud.

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We are cringe; we are free

Getting some good responses from Dishcord Twitter refugees in our gathering post and all, and the first thing we do whenever anyone signs up and comes forward is check out their journal's front page and see their aesthetic.

That post has only been up for like an hour or so as of this writing, some of the responder's accounts are about that new too, some of them haven't even done anything yet except reply there and maybe make a Hello World test post, but even just seeing everyone's pages, seeing the huge variety of styles and aesthetic choices and just the level to which everyone has personalized their presentation... one of them has a custom cursor, we're going all the way back to MySpace you guys.

Anyway, this energy is making us feel alive. This is the kind of shit we missed when social media went to Web 2.0 and eventually 3.0 trappings and everything became uniform and sterilized. There's so much creativity here, so much self expression. Web 1.0 really had some good ideas that we never should have moved away from, and there's been something of a renaissance of that train of thought in everything from games like Hypnospace Outlaw to revival sites like SpaceHey and NeoCities. And the fact that here everyone is making their blog truly theirs, there's just something refreshing and energizing about flipping through blog after blog after blog and seeing what everyone chose to do with theirs.

Ours is still the most US, though.

Keep it up, you all. Hope you all like it here and this vibe continues. (Oops guess I need to get back to working on those Let's Play reuploads now that there are like, more people here to see them hopefully.)