Sorry for the delayed reply - I've been waiting to get back to a desktop computer and it kept not happening 😂🙈 Yeah, I would say that description fits Pillowfort well! Generally speaking, folks who like Dreamwidth and folks who like Tumblr each find something to like about PF (and folks who like both particularly do 🤣) There have unquestionably been elements of culture clash with people trying to use PF in a "Tumblr"-like way or upset about X feature not working in the same way, but if people are earnest about making a home there, it generally smooths out, and sometimes gives birth to some creative innovations.
Like - on Pillowfort, you can't reblog posts with commentary (unless you put it in the tags, which is the same way that Tumblr used to work long ago), but you can comment, and commenting is strongly preferred by the PF community as a way of keeping discussions in one place instead of diffused across twenty different reblogs. However, some people regretted that there wasn't a way to show their followers which discussions they'd been taking part in. And so the "hitching post" was invented - a type of link roundup where you link out to various discussions where you've left comments, which serves as a place for other people to find interesting discussions, too.
A bit of a long-winded answer, but I find it very interesting XD
Oh, thank you - I'm glad you found the instructions helpful <3 It doesn't seem as though there is a master directory of DW communities, unfortunately. One thing you can do to find communities grouped by topic - in the same way that you might want to browse a directory with topic-based subsections - is to go to "Explore" => "Interests" using the dropdown menus at the very top of the page. Once there, you can click "View popular interests" to see a sort of word cloud of interests that a lot of people are into. If you click on one of those words, say "anime", and then select "communities only" to view communities with that interest. Voila - a topic-based list of communities!
One thing is that this method does rely on people adding the relevant interest(s) to their community, and sometimes people are over-generous with the topics they add, but it's a pretty decent method of finding communities. It also orders the list by most recently-updated, with the active ones coming to the top, so you don't have to wade through a list of possibly-dead communities (though of course, the one(s) that look interesting could be less active... ^^; )
I've created some screencaps to give you a visual aid!
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Another useful place to know is the community dw_community_promo , which is a comm for people to promote active communities they'd like more people to know about. A bit of a grab bag of communities, but it could be interesting!
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Like - on Pillowfort, you can't reblog posts with commentary (unless you put it in the tags, which is the same way that Tumblr used to work long ago), but you can comment, and commenting is strongly preferred by the PF community as a way of keeping discussions in one place instead of diffused across twenty different reblogs. However, some people regretted that there wasn't a way to show their followers which discussions they'd been taking part in. And so the "hitching post" was invented - a type of link roundup where you link out to various discussions where you've left comments, which serves as a place for other people to find interesting discussions, too.
A bit of a long-winded answer, but I find it very interesting XD
Oh, thank you - I'm glad you found the instructions helpful <3 It doesn't seem as though there is a master directory of DW communities, unfortunately. One thing you can do to find communities grouped by topic - in the same way that you might want to browse a directory with topic-based subsections - is to go to "Explore" => "Interests" using the dropdown menus at the very top of the page. Once there, you can click "View popular interests" to see a sort of word cloud of interests that a lot of people are into. If you click on one of those words, say "anime", and then select "communities only" to view communities with that interest. Voila - a topic-based list of communities!
One thing is that this method does rely on people adding the relevant interest(s) to their community, and sometimes people are over-generous with the topics they add, but it's a pretty decent method of finding communities. It also orders the list by most recently-updated, with the active ones coming to the top, so you don't have to wade through a list of possibly-dead communities (though of course, the one(s) that look interesting could be less active... ^^; )
I've created some screencaps to give you a visual aid!
1.
2.
3.
Another useful place to know is the community