My dreams are very wide

[mellotron_breakfast]

On Tuesday I decided to port my other blogs' contents to archives and then engage in mass post deletions. A lone message sits on the main one so that people who didn't jump over here will have some fair notice of what I did.

The decision was personal. I am not prepared to discuss why I did it at this time.

Future decisions are trickier; how to be fair to people who stayed there, and let them read things to which they should have access without making every post "public"... some people have rightly pointed out that since I have no fair expectation of "true" privacy in the blogosphere, I should never post anything I would not want the public to see.

It's quite rational, and that's precisely why I don't expect to live up to that standard. I am a compulsive writer, have been since before I had internet access, and always will be. I will not be perfectly careful and will probably want to retract something from public view in the future.

This is a fairer medium for someone like me than UseNet, where absolutely everything I would write is not only completely public but probably archived somewhere for all time. That stuff could be shuffled from one storage medium to the next, preserved for another century or longer just because someone else compulsively archives and has the resources to live their dream. If any medium ever enabled people's weird tendencies the most... welcome to the Internet. I should be the one to talk.

[gary_oldman]Welcome to my home...[/gary_oldman]

Comments

[bunny-hugger.livejournal.com]

So many of my friends have fled over here that I did make an OpenID account here, but so far I'm frustrated. I twice attempted to verify my email address only to have the alleged verification email never arrive. And I have a "reading page" that for some reason only includes posts from half the people I'm supposed to be subscribed to, and I have to go and look at the other ones directly to see their posts.

I don't know how much time I'm going to be spending over here at this rate. >:/

[mellotron_breakfast]

Understood. I guess OpenID isn't the easy answer I wish it could be.

I do have a spare invite code if you want it, but given your encounters with this system so far I would not be surprised if you didn't want the code. I'm not sure what that would change.

[bunny-hugger.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, I do have an answer now to the email question. According to the "known issues," my ISP is blocking emails from Dreamwidth. Great. They're supposedly "working to fix this" so perhaps that will get sorted out eventually.

It looks like my reading page is working for me now, so I should keep coming by to read. I'm not sure I'm ready to actually move my journal to DW. Most of my friends are still on LJ, including my dear austin_dern, and that keeps me there. I suppose I could start posting simultaneously in both journals so that my friends who have moved here could still keep up with my mundane goings-on. Hm.