Year End Post

[ysabetwordsmith]

reddit_refugees was created on June 23, 2023 as a response to the Reddit Exodus. Here people can learn how to use Dreamwidth, figure out how to do here what they used to do there, and search for their friends from Reddit. It's also a good resource for newcomers to DW in general. Thanks for joining us here and helping make the community work.

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What would you like to see here in the future?

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My $0.02.

[angledge]

I'd like to see directions to DW equivalents of subReddits that people miss. For me, I wish DreamWidth had something like r/stopdrinking.

Re: My $0.02.

[ysabetwordsmith]

I would love to have that resource. It's been suggested several times. Unfortunately it's not one I can make myself, because I wasn't on Reddit. The best I can do is search for a topic on DW.

In this case, the only communities I could find were either dead or dormant.

atmaholics -- Atmaholics Anonymous
An online Alcoholics Anonymous / Narcotics Anonymous meeting
(Updated 273 weeks ago )

So, it looks like there's a vacuum where someone could launch a new community like Stopdrinking, and January is a great time for that because activity is high now.

Re: My $0.02.

[angledge]

I'm not sure I have time to run a community right now, but if anyone else is interested in starting a DW version of r/stopdrinking, please let me know because I am willing to help.

Re: My $0.02.

[ysabetwordsmith]

Right now, this is buried in comments under a post. You could make a post on something like "Creating Dreamwidth Communities Based on Reddits." Propose your "r_stopdrinking" idea and ask if anyone else is interested. (DW uses a _ as a spacer, so you can just replace any Reddit / with that.) Ask who else has ideas for a community here or would be interested in helping to run one. It's definitely easier with at least a couple moderators and a handful of interested folks. In a new post, more people will see it and hopefully get involved. "I wish my favorite Reddit was a DW community" is probably a common sentiment here.

Some resources:

'Creating a Dreamwidth community' Masterpost

"Finding People on Dreamwidth"

Sample Online Community Parameters


And one idea to make R_stopdrinking successful: include a recurring post that invites people to share their nonalcoholic recipes. People like recipes, and those appeal for a lot of reasons (e.g. sober, pregnant, kids at party, incompatible meds) thus can have a very wide audience. Also worth a thought is sharing sources for nonalcoholic versions of things that are usually alcoholic, like glycerin-based extracts (the standard kind use alcohol).