woo december points bonus! time to renew our paid account! :D
"We may not have all the bells and whistles of other social sites, but unlike them, we don't accept advertising or venture capital and we don't mine your data and sell it to third parties -- and we never will."
this is fantastic on its own, just that you don't use advertising or sell data or otherwise turn your userbase into product. but by our personal standards, dreamwidth is far and away the BEST social site out there.
it's accessible, reliable, configurable, non-invasive, respectful of identities, welcoming of minorities, puts users first, a safe and relaxing environment, compatible with buggy browsers and old machines, everything works well with screen readers and personalised accessibility settings... in our experience dreamwidth is more likely to work than to break no matter what. while other sites, with all their unnecessary sparkly doodads that are frequently inaccessible and can go wrong so easily, are more likely to break than to work, at least for us.
dreamwidth's setup for how posting and conversation works, and fully customisable privacy and everything else, all contribute to making it more likely communication will develop in a healthy, friendly and supportive direction. unlike a lot of other social sites whose setup and functions make it more likely they'll spawn conflict and bullying instead.
we're disabled, plural, trans*, crazy, and a lot of other things, and we're having to use a machine that's so old it can't run the latest versions of browsers any more. and while other sites are unwelcoming or outright hostile to us, and a lot of them have gradually become entirely nonfunctional on our old computer or broken when we apply the accessibility settings that we need, dreamwidth has always been welcoming, supportive, safe, respectful and reliable. everything works, we're allowed to be ourselves here, and the staff listen when we have problems, and do something about it.
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"We may not have all the bells and whistles of other social sites, but unlike them, we don't accept advertising or venture capital and we don't mine your data and sell it to third parties -- and we never will."
this is fantastic on its own, just that you don't use advertising or sell data or otherwise turn your userbase into product. but by our personal standards, dreamwidth is far and away the BEST social site out there.
it's accessible, reliable, configurable, non-invasive, respectful of identities, welcoming of minorities, puts users first, a safe and relaxing environment, compatible with buggy browsers and old machines, everything works well with screen readers and personalised accessibility settings... in our experience dreamwidth is more likely to work than to break no matter what. while other sites, with all their unnecessary sparkly doodads that are frequently inaccessible and can go wrong so easily, are more likely to break than to work, at least for us.
dreamwidth's setup for how posting and conversation works, and fully customisable privacy and everything else, all contribute to making it more likely communication will develop in a healthy, friendly and supportive direction. unlike a lot of other social sites whose setup and functions make it more likely they'll spawn conflict and bullying instead.
we're disabled, plural, trans*, crazy, and a lot of other things, and we're having to use a machine that's so old it can't run the latest versions of browsers any more. and while other sites are unwelcoming or outright hostile to us, and a lot of them have gradually become entirely nonfunctional on our old computer or broken when we apply the accessibility settings that we need, dreamwidth has always been welcoming, supportive, safe, respectful and reliable. everything works, we're allowed to be ourselves here, and the staff listen when we have problems, and do something about it.
dreamwidth = best site. <3
~ the beasts