I'm sort of ambivalent about having gotten a Dreamwidth, which I do perceive as something of a LiveJournal clone even though I'm told it has a pretty different site culture these days. I've been pining for the days of flocks, nested comment threads, communities, and a somewhat older user base for years now, but now that I actually have a Dreamwidth, I'm worried that my online style has been too influenced by seven years of the microblogging format to really be able to get back into the swing of this. My attention span isn't what it once was, and I have a harder time actively seeking out people to talk to and content to interact with than I used to.

Moreover, I was spiritually and culturally a little out of step with LiveJournal even back in 2010, and I think that might be a little more pronounced now, because I'm more religious now and in some ways a little more prudish. I'm not really sure what to make of this because I'm out of step with the Tumblr "essays on why a ship is problematic and people who ship it are irredeemable written by teenagers with no relationship experience" style too. I'm also not sure if there's really any such thing as a "Catholic Dreamwidth" the way there's a Catholic Tumblr (even though Catholic Tumblr also kind of sucks). I also don't know if I want to seek out and reach out to people I knew in the LJ days (under a different handle and at a very different time in my life) or just start afresh.

I'm sort of shouting into the void here, I know, since I've had this account for like twelve hours, have no friends (although I know the term Dreamwidth uses isn't "friends"), and haven't joined any communities yet, but I just felt that it should be said.