With Cohost Now Read-Only...
Oct. 1st, 2024 09:44 amThis is a reminder that dreamwidth is (as far as I can tell, intentionally designed to be) only a part of the wider internet. People may have divided out between places like Bluesky or independent websites, but you can still follow them on your Reading page here (which seems to be dreamwidth's equivalent of the "dashboard"). Just use RSS! RSS or Atom feeds can be applied to the Feeds page, which will give you a link to the feed's page (if it already exists) or allow you to create one (if it doesn't). A lot of former cohost-users have integrated RSS into their websites, and if they've moved to a different service you can also follow their RSS feeds if they're using Bluesky or Tumblr (although this only applies to Tumblr accounts that have a "site" associated with them, in the original form, because of Twitter-like changes which try to keep people on the service). If they're on another service without an inbuilt RSS feed, you can use RSS generator sites like Open RSS to make one.
One of the important legacies to carry on from cohost is that, if you don't want a corporate algorithm deciding for you what you're going to see and experience, you need to curate your experience yourself. Put the things you want to see on your Reading page actively, to give you things you want to interact with there. The Feeds page already has the top 1000 most-subscribed RSS feeds right there for you to look through, but here are some I've followed myself in case you're looking:
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