Is this thing on?

[cos]

Time to take another stab at seeing if some people will read and comment somewhere other than Facebook!

Almost a full year since the last time I posted here, but the harmfulness of Facebook's influence has been much more in the news in that year, and people are talking about it more, so maybe people are more ready to broaden their post&comment flavored social media now?

Comments

[blimix]

I'm still here!

[bluepapercup]

Still hanging around here!

[forgotten_aria]

I even sometimes still post here.

[minoanmiss]

Perhaps. Also, hi!

[cos]

Hi! I recognize who the other people who commented so far are, but I don't recognize your username. Do we know each other, or just someone who found me through mutual friends?

[minoanmiss]

You might know me as Nye? We've met long ago.

[cos]

Well I do remember someone named Nye, so that must be you :)

[minoanmiss]

A little Black girl? :)

[cos]

Yup!

[minoanmiss]

That's me!

[ckd]

Yup yup. Hi!

[sparr]

I'm posting here occasionally, and crossposting to LJ. Don't have a very active feed though, even though I try every year to get some people to jump ship.

[noahgibbs]

This is still my favourite RSS reader. Still around. Occasionally posting.

[jered]

I still read here, but don't post.

[ceelove]

*waves*

[notadoor]

I check DW every 2-3 weeks, which means I am slightly at risk of missing things (since reading page only goes back 14 days.) But realistically, I have one person who posts things regularly on here and they're someone who is also very active on Facebook/I regularly talk to via other means.

[rmd]

Hello!

[ceelove]

Reading and occasionally replying, not posting (and will never get sucked into the doom-machine of FB). If you’d like to keep up with my doings these days, I’m blogging of my life on the Kitsap peninsula at homesteadingdykes.com.

[elusiveat]

Didn't mention this at the time, but I took the liberty of creating a DW feed of your blog so that I could keep up with the interesting things you've been doing.

Here's the link in case you'd like to share it:
https://homesteadingdykes-feed.dreamwidth.org/

[ceelove]

Oh hey, thank you! Tech literacy is not in my wheelhouse, so I quite appreciate other people making my writing more broadly accessible. (I just wish Wordpress had a way of accounting for people using such a format, it doesn’t include y’all among my followers.)

[nacht_musik]

I'm here. I mostly don't post, but do read. I'm excited for anything that isn't FB.

[macthud]

Still reading, commenting, and sometimes posting here and on LJ.

Farceborg has a much larger density of connected people, so I'd use it more, but they've redesigned everything sitewide to break my usage patterns, so they'll lose most of my interaction for the foreseeable.

I've never liked their editing of my "reading page" (newsfeed), and I've not fallen into following their suggestions, so their most poisonous aspects haven't touched me.

*shrugs*

There'll be another better thing someday.

[cos]

So if a couple more people posted regularly, you might check every 1-2 weeks? :)

[feuervogel]

I read here regularly but post infrequently.

ping!

[goljerp]

Hi, Cos!

I check the site every day or three, and post... well, due to the covid, I've been posting 2 or more times a month, on average, which is probably more than I've done in a while.

If there were more people posting interesting things here (hint, hint), I'd probably check my reading list more often. :-)

I'm not totally thrilled with the Dreamwidth interface, but it's not the javascript monstrosity that LJ turned into before forcing me to agree to a TOS in a language I don't speak. :-)

[flexagon]

Hi cos, I am here! You might recognize me better/differently as flyerball, or as a username that means "eight-sided shape". (This picture is also really of me.) I post, read and comment.

[cos]

I actually completely remembered you had this name too!

[kirin]

Ironically, I still read here fairly frequently *because* it's such a ghost town, so even when I'm out of time to check twitter and instagram (I gave up using facebook for anything other than event RSVPs and occasionally checking particular people's pages years ago), I can check here without it taking very long.

[someonefromthewater]

I'm still here. Haven't used Facebook in a long time.

[eirias]

*waves*

[elusiveat]

I am here. I am also not on Facebook anymore. I still have a Facebook account, but basically never log on except when someone private messages me and I don't have their email address, so that I can write back and ask them to please use email instead.

On the other hand, I've started to be lightly active on Twitter, instigated by the fact that it's basically the only way to keep up with public thinkers who no longer keep blogs.

I use Mastodon, and am looking into getting a Matrix server set up.

I do not miss Facebook, although I do feel a bit out of the loop sometimes, especially in the nagging worry (especially with the pandemic going on) that I might not have a way to know if people in my extended circles died.

[wispfox]

I'm here, but I rarely post.

[laurion]

Look at all these people!

[tshuma]

Hi! I forget to stop in and check for days at a time but I'm usually here at least once a week..