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[a_flyleaf]

Lil smorgasbord of a post today:

1.
Quick shout-out to vriddy’s Dreamwidth tips tag, there’s a bunch of stuff here that I wanna go through more thoroughly later >:Oc Also linking this comment with more nifty-looking resources, while I’m here.

2.
The current Sunshine Challenge prompt is a flower canonically associated with my current Favorite Character of All Time, hello????? (“current favorite of all time” = I am prone to getting hyperfixated on media/specific characters for a prolonged period of time, and even after my active interest moves on they will continue to be very special to me. “blorbo” is the slang du jour for this, I think)

I don’t know if I’ll actually Do Something for that, seeing as I’m gonna run through the game again soon and it will almost definitely devour my every waking thought anew, but impeccable coincidence here.

3.
Back on the Dreamwidth note, oh my god, it took me this long to realize I can still effectively follow tumblr people here via RSS. (No tags, alas, but still!!)

Explore > Feeds > Add Feed > https://blog-name.tumblr.com/rss, and it seems to work with specific tags too: https://blog-name.tumblr.com/tagged/tag/rss

I do kinda wish I could hide that on my Dw profile (if I had the options I’d make the entire People tab & Reading page private; I know this isn’t exactly Social Media™ but I’ve gotten used to that info being something only the blogger knows, feels weird to have public*), but more importantly: Dreamwidth! can be! a glorified! feed reader!!!! I’ve been wanting to figure out/use RSS for ages but never felt like digging through the various reader programs, figured I didn’t want to keep up-to-date on enough things to warrant it anyway, but like. Bam, surprise, Dw has been here all along. 🤯, honestly!!

edit: Found more nifty info on how RSS feed work around here!

*3a.
[citation needed] for this entire spitball, but come to think of it, I wonder if public ~circles from (presumably, I have zero firsthand experience with it) the LiveJournal era is a big part of why those nice “mind your own business” norms rose in the first place? Like, you don’t want other people to judge you for what you read/who you talk to, do unto others, all good.

Obviously this did/does not apply to Twitter but that’s its own hellscape.

Idk! I only ever used Tumblr, where (I think?) likes used to be private by default and, although the default theme had a Following section in the sidebar, it wasn’t hard to get rid of! So the norm I got used to was that that info was none of anyone else’s business. Not saying this as a better/worse comparison or judgment, just thought it was an interesting difference. I wonder if private defaults make people more or less cagy about their interests?

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To je sve! (That is all!)
(…I will probably keep gratuitously sprinkling (probably-)wonky Croatian through my posts, it’s fun to show off. “no bilingual people talk like that” however a-flyleafs georg, who is learning language adn butchers hrvatski a thousand times a day,)

Comments

[vriddy]

Thank you for the shout-out :D :D Would be delighted if those tips can be handy for more people.

I hope the sunshine prompt inspires :D :D It's a fun challenge!

I also follow a couple of Tumblr feeds (mostly announcement-style feeds, even if I don't really participate in the bangs anymore), it's really handy. I was so surprised to see Tumblr still offered those, but I guess the site was born when interoperability was still a thing... It doesn't work super well with ask-heavy blogs though, the ask ends up being the title and gets cut off early no matter the length. That post about adding feeds in general and Tumblr in particular is really really good though!! Going to signal boost :D

[a_flyleaf]

No problem, I bet they have been :D Thanks for boosting, too! (Which feels weird since it’s not my post, but like, I’m glad to see the thing passed along!)

And yeah, I’m pleasantly surprised Tumblr feeds work well as they do, even with formatting quirks >:o Haven’t seen an ask post yet, but it’s nice that there’s a link to the Tumblr post so the local formatting is a quick click away \o/

[vriddy]

Spreading the goodness!! :D :D

I can't find the feed anymore but someone in my circles was following the olderthannetfic feed so I spotted it on my Network page (friends of friends), and it's such an ask-heavy blog that it was pretty obvious it doesn't work super well :/ 😔