personal blog! queer disabled nerd with too many pets and books.
some of this feels a bit unintuitive
Like it's weirdly difficult to get to the point of actually making a new post; it took a while to figure out how to chnge my icon and background; I'm not fully clear on how to make a new username/identity, other than presumably by joining or making another community, which seems... odd? Do people have to 'join my community' to follow my blog, and essentially just be members who can't post?
But, yeah, I like it! I have been hoping for a livejournal/tumblr-ish mashup for a while now, because I miss LJ communities and the option to interact via comment threads rather than reblogs. (Also icons, but I guess you can't have everything. But icons were fun!)



Yeah 'personal blog' was introduced recently, but they're really communities with a special property of being able to be associated with your profile and other people don't post to, so we have to 'join' to follow. Making a new identity does have to be done in a new comm, but fyi that it's permanently associated with that comm even if you don't actually post with it. I assume deleting an identity would actually release the link and allow you to join with a new one, but just unjoining doesn't.
The 'every action is PERMANENT' feel is a little unnerving to me; I haven't set up a personal blog myself because of the 'the name will be permanent!' note and apparently you can't specify you want a specific 'personal blog' to be linked from your profile, either. It's obvious the founder(s) came from a reddit mentality hah. But the structure is interesting; I'm curious how it'll grow? I'd definitely appreciate somewhere other than tumblr for fannish content, especially with the built-in filtering.
yeah, it makes more sense when i think of it as kind of reddit-with-blogs rather than tumblr-with-communities, but still, I hope the personal blog thing gets more... personal-blog-ish, haha.
and yeah, the everything-is-permanent thing unsettles me a little too, but I figure either that will change in the future or if I really want to, I can delete and remake things (do you know if you're allowed to have more than one account, btw? I know it says 'there's no need to', but is there any rule against it?)
but mostly i'm pretty intrigued with it so far! I am so tired of tumblr's general format/setup/terrible features lately, and also the fact that everyone there seems to be under 20 is kind of... bleh, so i'm liking that imzy seems to skew a lot more grown-up as well.