WisCon may have a Dreamwidth panel this year

[brainwane]

WisCon (Madison, Wisconsin, USA, late May) just opened its panel interest survey and one of the potential sessions is:

But Seriously, Why Aren't You Using Dreamwidth?

There are a lot of good reasons to use Dreamwidth as our primary social media: It respects our privacy; it doesn't treat us as products to be sold to advertisers; it shows us everything, in exactly the order we want it; it allows short or long-form posting. Yet most of us aren't using it. Is there anything that can be done to change that? Are we all just doomed to use social media platforms that have no respect for us?

If you want to attend that session, or participate as a speaker, now's a good time to create a WisCon website account and sign up for the panel. (As of right now the con is planned to happen in-person this year but they'll update the community again on March 20th.)

(A previous WisCon had a DW power tips session - notes here.)

Comments

[jazzyjj]

I most probably won't be attending either, primarily since I'm located near Chicago. But I'd like to add something. Dreamwidth is very accessible with VoiceOver, which is Apple's in-house screen reader. I'm currently having trouble logging back into the mobile site on my phone, but I think that's on my end. I reset my iPhone a couple weeks ago because I was having an issue with a 3rd-party app. I'm working on it though. But I'm also thinking about filing a support ticket or posting a suggestion in the appropriate comm. To cut a long story short, I want to use Dreamwidth as a petition site for something unrelated and I'm wondering if there's a way to do that. Happy conventioning to all attending if it will still be happening, and long live Dreamwidth!

[jesse_the_k]

Using DW for a petition is intriguing. Are you planning on using the poll feature?