The best statement of what Dreamwidth is about is probably here.
As far as "you are't going to to compete with Lj are you?" goes, I know somewhere or other there's an official statement about that. I'm not in any way an "official" voice of Dreamwidth here, just a fellow member, but I can tell you from my recollection that Dreamwidth's business plan is not "steal all of LJ's users." synecdochic has a lot of interesting things about the philosophy of Dreamwidth and its relationship to LJ, and she is an official voice.
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http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=65
The best statement of what Dreamwidth is about is probably here.
As far as "you are't going to to compete with Lj are you?" goes, I know somewhere or other there's an official statement about that. I'm not in any way an "official" voice of Dreamwidth here, just a fellow member, but I can tell you from my recollection that Dreamwidth's business plan is not "steal all of LJ's users."
Oh, and welcome!