On dreamwidth, and using OpenID
May. 9th, 2009 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiki_engdreamwidth:
"Dreamwidth Studios is an Open Source social networking, content management, and personal publishing platform." (about that) It is new and shiny.
They are a more fan-friendly establishment. One of their features is that they differentiate between granting someone access to friends-locked entries, and subscribing to their journal.
Dreamwidth has excellent guiding principles. They are committed to open access, interoperability, open source, community review, and respecting privacy. They operate under the principles of transparency, freedom, and respect. Furthermore, they vow never to accept or display third party advertising.
I am very excited about dreamwidth. I plan on moving there.
OpenID:
Livejournal, along with a great many other sites, supports OpenID. It's a function that allows people who do not hold accounts to comment in a non-anonymous way. It means that you do not have to have a username.
As I do not have a dreamwidth username I find this very useful. To access dreamwidth with OpenID I needed only to enter what was to become my OpenID URL (kiki-eng.livejournal.com) and then follow prompting. This was so easy that I do not entirely remember how this works.
As an OpenID user on dreamwidth, I have a profile and reading list. This pleases me. I also have all sorts of account options regarding notifications and the like. It is a very happy, user-friendly place. I look forward to watching its growth.
"Dreamwidth Studios is an Open Source social networking, content management, and personal publishing platform." (about that) It is new and shiny.
They are a more fan-friendly establishment. One of their features is that they differentiate between granting someone access to friends-locked entries, and subscribing to their journal.
Dreamwidth has excellent guiding principles. They are committed to open access, interoperability, open source, community review, and respecting privacy. They operate under the principles of transparency, freedom, and respect. Furthermore, they vow never to accept or display third party advertising.
I am very excited about dreamwidth. I plan on moving there.
OpenID:
Livejournal, along with a great many other sites, supports OpenID. It's a function that allows people who do not hold accounts to comment in a non-anonymous way. It means that you do not have to have a username.
As I do not have a dreamwidth username I find this very useful. To access dreamwidth with OpenID I needed only to enter what was to become my OpenID URL (kiki-eng.livejournal.com) and then follow prompting. This was so easy that I do not entirely remember how this works.
As an OpenID user on dreamwidth, I have a profile and reading list. This pleases me. I also have all sorts of account options regarding notifications and the like. It is a very happy, user-friendly place. I look forward to watching its growth.
