Imzy

[elisi]

So, I am slowly trying to get on top of stuff. (Had to go back to skip=100 to catch up on my flist...)

And remembered that I signed up to Imzy. (Partly just so no one else would take 'elisi'.)

Apparently you can only follow communities, not friend other users, and I think that means that elisi is a community? Please let me know if you are there and I'll add you.

I also found this article: Imzy: Can an Ex-Reddit Exec Really Hack the Online Abuse Problem?, which helped explain a lot of why the set-up is the way it is. (The Whys behind the Whos are always useful.)

Oh and I have five two invites [left] if anyone wants one. :)

(The name is good. It sounds whimsical and odd. And does anyone know how to customise beyond adding a userpic? I've looked, but not in any depth.)

ETA: Right, so I went ahead & created a Doctor Who meta community:

Mirrorleaf

Come join me! :)

ETA2: Omg, managing/setting up a community is so much better/clearer than setting up a personal account. Like, you can find stuff, and it makes sense!!

Comments

[elisi]

That's why I keep wondering if many of the people trying out Imzy don't actually know DW exists or what it does.
Do you mean LJ people? My guess would be that DW is too similar to LJ. Imzy looks like something different.

If you mean people generally, then... Well, if I wasn't on LJ I'd never have heard of Dreamwidth.

[yourlibrarian]

They might be LJ people, they do sometimes mention "Dreamwidth does this" or "LJ does this" but I'm guessing at least some of them are people who came to fandom after the LJ boom and have never had an account there. (And, as you point out, even among fans, Dreamwidth isn't well known).

[elisi]

My 'issue' with DW is that it's essentially the same as LJ - just smaller and more 'organic' (as in homegrown and ecologically friendly). Like a fair-trade version of LJ. Which is nice, but (like I said on another occasion), I'll stick with Greendale. ;) I never want to sound like I'm bashing DW, but it just never appealed to me beyond being a back-up. IF it had never been created, I'd probably be using IJ for the same thing....

Imzy is - as Promethia says - something quite different, more like a forum than the sort of blog-community-with-communities that LJ has fostered.

/rambling