Twitter Exodus

[ysabetwordsmith]

Twitter faces a mass exodus.

For people on any other service, this is an opportunity to scoop new users. Listen to why people are leaving Twitter. Does your favorite service meet any of those needs? If so, encourage people to move there instead. Gathering more of your friends together will make any service more fun to use.

For example, many people are complaining about hate speech and poor privacy tools that don't let them block it. Dreamwidth offers private blogs, themed communities, and pretty robust moderation tools that let you delete comments you don't want on your blog or block people so they can't bother you. Want a hate-free online space? It's not that hard to make one. Want to make tweet-sized blog posts? Some people do that here, especially with certain formats like "3 Things Make a Post" in various blogs or "Just One Thing" on awesomeers. Looking for communities on your favorite topics? Check out followfriday for suggestions. You can also use the search box in your blog header for interests.

Some resources that you can share or reblog for new users to find:

* Dev Getting Started (for the code)

* dreamwidth 101: the (sort of) fast version

* Finding people on Dreamwidth

* Getting Started on DW (from LiveJournal)

* how to dreamwidth: a primer

* Making Friends on Dreamwidth

* So you're into BNHA and just created a Dreamwidth account

* A Tumblr User's Guide to Dreamwidth

* And of course, refer them to this community.

I have not seen a Dreamwidth guide for Twitter users, so if you know of one, please share the URL so I can link to it. Other guides are welcome too.

EDIT 11/19/22 -- I have continued to update the version of this list that I posted on my blog, which is now much larger, as other people have made resource posts or lists.

Comments

[jajalala]

The main guide I know is from vriddy which is a somewhat My Hero Academia oriented guide, but it links to several other guides as well and gives a shortish basic overview of DW and a few functions! I would recommend it for people who are looking for fandom-centric guides/spaces, but it's not particularly twitter oriented.

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I have added this one.

Yeah, I haven't found anything especially for Twitter but I keep hoping someone will make one. Meanwhile I'm linking whatever other novice resources I can find.

[yourlibrarian]

Twitter users are definitely exploring new options. I saw the Pillowfort owner say that they've been seen an increase in user accounts in the last few weeks and more interested responses to their own Twitter account.

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Thanks for the confirmation.

[yourlibrarian]

Looks like there's another DR primer -- not that recent but probably helpful: https://tofuhouse.dreamwidth.org/2466.html

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I have added this.

[yourlibrarian]

Also, not a primer but just spotted this which I imagine newcomers might be looking for to post photosets here: https://midnightchills.dreamwidth.org/331.html