Setting Up on Dreamwidth

[bboiseux]

Hi all! I'm a tumblr immigrant seeing what I can do here on Dreamwidth :)

I'll probably take some time to start uploading links to my Critical Role fic on AO3 and then start posting new fic here, going forward (as well as on AO3)

(Oh and if anyone wants to help me understand the proper etiquete for ... everything on here, please share! I am horribly overwhelmed)

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[hebethen]

Greetings! Welcome! Have you checked out the_great_tumblr_purge and the comments to the official dw_news welcome post? There's some guides there, and in the latter, also some discussion about etiquette.

I believe someone pointed out that pretty much the only major etiquette thing is, if something is shown to you privately (an access-locked post, for example), don't share/publicize it outside of that access group. Maybe that's obvious, but it's a biggie.

More minor: It's normal to put large photos or NSFW behind a cut (using <cut></cut>). Most communities are fine with you crossposting content; e.g., linking to a fic you posted on AO3, reposting your own art, etc. If you're interested in a journal or a community, feel free to subscribe unless it explicitly says not to -- it's a free action, because subscribing doesn't get you access to their private/friends-only posts anyway, so you're not intruding on anything.

In general, DW is pretty live-and-let-live. It gives you a lot of privacy and control. The flip side is that you have to go out of your way to look for people and communities that you're interested in. There's a lot of tools for that: the interest search, the sitewide text search, checking out the reading pages of people you already follow, browsing Explore -> Latest, etc.

(Note that allll of those can be avoided by someone who doesn't want to participate in that kind of discovery -- interests are opt-in to begin with, and there are tickboxes to let you opt out of the rest. See what I mean about privacy being a big deal?)

[bboiseux]

Oh thank you so much! This is a great help and I'm going to review those posts now :)

I have to say that just lurking here and trying to figure out it looks like dreamwidth is much more built for interaction and that feels great. I sort of stumbled into using tumblr after I started writing and it's been a little isolating. Thanks again!

[hebethen]

Glad to have been of help! Happy hunting!