Boy is it super easy to do on Tumblr! People reblogging cool stuff, and then you can go back through the reblog chain and find out who else is interested, and bam! Instant cool people, who post more cool stuff.
It’s a little trickier on Dreamwidth, I’ll admit.There’s also the question of how to share cool stuff if you can’t just click to reblog it. Here’s a few options:
Search Interests – So, when you create a journal or community on Dreamwidth, you’re encouraged to list a bunch of interests in its profile. The cool thing is, once you have those interests saved, they turn into links you can click on. Or you can type a specific interest into the search box I liked above. Either option will take you to a page that lists all the other journals – individuals and communities alike – that also list that thing as an interest. Default is to list everything, but you can also sort them out to just journals or just communities, just OpenID accounts (which will link to other places off-site) and just people you already have in your reading circle. Any person or community that lists that thing as one of their interests may post about it, or welcome posts about it.
Communities – So I mentioned communities in the previous point. I’m sure you’re familiar with Tumblr accounts that work primarily through Submissions. Communities work in pretty much the same way; the moderator(s) of the community decide the level of posting access (open to members, open to everyone, open to just select members, there’s a lot of options), and then those with posting access make content. You can update a community either through your regular update page, where there’s a drop-down menu to select where to post, or directly from the community page. Everyone who is following the community will then be able to see the post you made, unless it’s locked to community members (which is an option for privacy and/or security). So if you’re interested in a specific fandom, you can find a community dedicated to that fandom, and there will be people there posting about it: Making cool things to share or discussing things. If someone in particular posts a lot of stuff that you like, you can add their journal to your reading circle and sometimes see things that are unrelated to the community where you met them. I’ve followed a lot of people from fandom to fandom in much this way.
The Latest Things Page – This is the closet Dreamwidth has to how Tumblr’s public tag system currently operates, and it can be seriously addictive. Dreamwidth does have a selection of the most popular tags at the top of the post that you can click on to see a selection of posts featuring those tags, but it’s hit or miss whether anything will actually show up. There is no screening in place on the Latest Things page aside from what is in place on individual posts (which is to say, things that are locked from the public won’t show up there, but triggery stuff that isn’t under a cut might show up). Also, things will show up whether or not you tag them, but they won’t show up when you click the Most Popular Tags if they don’t have that tag on them.
The Explore Tab – Really, this can help you find a lot of stuff and people you’re interested in. In addition to the Interests and Latest Things Page, which I already mentioned, there’s links to take you to a random journal or community and search engines for specific journals, as well as a directory. It is totally possible to find interesting people and content on Dreamwidth; the methods are just a little different.
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