Newcomers to Dreamwidth

moodthemeinayear  has opened Part 3! For anyone who wants to join in for just the Minimum or Medium Tracks, they've both restarted with this Part. And it can also be fun just to watch the community!

You can also play Mood Theme Bingo.

At least a couple themes from the previous year have been added as standard Dreamwidth mood themes that anyone can use, including the Jellyfish (assorted colors) and Fancy Rats. \o/

Here are a couple of community activity updates from soc_puppet:

moodthemeinayear is nearing its next break period! It begins on Wednesday. Following that break, the Minimum and Medium Tracks will reset, so it's a great time to jump on for anyone who wants a schedule to follow.

summerofthe69's amnesty period will end on Monday, with theme suggestions for 2025 set to open on Wednesday. Voting for themes will begin in May, so you have plenty of time to ponder theme suggestions.

MARCH META MATTERS CHALLENGE, CHECK-IN NO. 1 on marchmetamatterschallenge

Welcome to year 6 of the Meta Matters Challenge! I'm your moderator, yourlibrarian .

These posts will be used for us all to check-in with one another, offer encouragement and answers to questions, and maybe tips we come up with as we copy our work to other locations.


This challenge runs through the month of March. Visit the above post to introduce yourself and your goals.

Today is Cyber Monday. This holiday focuses on shopping online. It has surpassed Black Friday as the biggest shopping day of the year! \o/




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Google's IOS app now adds their links to your website to suck away your traffic, unless you go through a tedious process to opt out.  There's a word for this in zoology: kleptoparasitism. 

soc_puppet has posted a set of mood calendars so you can do the Mood Theme in a Month Challenge, which you are welcome to share on moodthemeinayear.

Osteophage on Neocities has posted a batch of useful tools for cyberspace.

Cohost is closing. Registration shut down on September 9 when the closure was announced. It will go read-only on October 1, 2024 and disappear entirely at the end of 2024. See "Cohost News" for more on this topic and what you can do about it. Use the "Introduction / Friending Meme" to say hello and meet new people or find your Cohost friends here. A mourning post is here.

If you are on Cohost, you may find Dreamwidth a viable replacement. Scroll down for more resources about this.

For people on any other service, this is an opportunity to scoop new users. Listen to why people liked Cohost and say they will miss it. 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, people have described Cohost as friendly, creative, innovative, user-expressive, community-oriented, with good features and moral developers. Dreamwidth has free, paid, and premium levels so you can choose the package that suits your needs. It 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. It's easy to find bloggers you like and nurture a sense of community. You can make short posts, carry long conversations, share images, and so on. Want a hate-free online space? It's not that hard to make one. Want to make a Cohost-like experience on Dreamwidth? Consider starting a community or using feeds. Looking for communities on your favorite topics to replace the Cohost accounts that you used to enjoy? Check out followfriday for suggestions, or watch dw_community_promo. You can also use the search box in your blog header or the Interests page. Community Thursdays is just a custom of folks posting what they've done in communities recently, whether posting or commenting.

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