DW meta, Where *is* everybody? and Freedom Pass

[baratron]

I've done a bit more work on migrating my lj friends list to a new dreamwidth access list. It is, however, really depressing how many of the accounts on my new list say "never updated" next to them.

It seems that my dreamwidth reading list consists of about 10 people who regularly post. I really miss the chronic health community that I had on lj, but haven't had the spoons either to post on lj to ask where people have moved to, or to try to find a new version here. Must find some spoons. Currently accepting donations.

I still have a couple of hundred links from my mobile browser which I "need" to post on my journal. I expect most of the news-related links are now hideously outdated due to new events. A lot of the queer or disability-related links are still interesting, though.

In exciting personal news, I now have a Freedom Pass! I've qualified for one for years, I just didn't have sufficient energy/motivation to submit the paperwork. And buses in London are free if you're a wheelchair user anyway. However, due to various things (such as the fire at Camden Lock Market), I now need to take the Tube on a regular basis. £8.10 for a Travelcard with a Disabled Railcard is just horrendous (that's like THREE chocolate brownies!), and that was finally enough motivation for me to apply for the pass.

So now I can travel all around London for free, and also on buses elsewhere in England. However, my travel is currently restricted owing to the fact that platforms 7 & 8 at Vauxhall will have no lift until April. Also for the next couple of weeks, trains from Kingston are only every half hour (instead of every 15 minutes), and will be taking 48+ minutes to get to Waterloo instead of 30ish.

I must remember to buy tickets for this vegan food fair. Perhaps after Richard has recovered from the shock of paying for my last-minute train tickets to Leeds - which were already heavily reduced due to aforementioned Freedom Pass and Disabled Railcard...

Comments

[jenett]

I alas do not have spare spoons (well, other than the ones that are in bits of jewelry, but I'm keeping those.)

I've found bunches of people via the various friending memes, and people are still posting new posts on 2017revival where I found new people. (Poking through my profile and/or reading page might also find you some people.)

Communities themselves tend to less likely to work here for reasons I've seen a lot of theories about, but I think it's mostly down to why people moved, people moving in smaller chunks, and communities not having a lot of initial thrust behind them.

[redbird]

*waving hello*

[sfred]

I have gained new, active friends on DW; lots of my old LJ list are now mostly on Twitter and/or Facebook.

[baratron]

I may have to get a Twitter account. I've started tweeting regularly for UESP and I've found that I actually *can* compress my thoughts into 140 characters. The fact that URLs no longer count in that limit makes it a lot easier. You can have whatever damn name you want on Twitter and they don't demand your ID to "prove" your name, nor does the company itself harass trans people whose ID has their legal name not their real name.

[tiger_spot]

Hello! Life is busy in a way that leads to me not posting much, but I am here.

[damerell]

I still read, I just post very little besides Crawl victory posts.

[rhialto]

My reading list was clearly also out of date! I have now rectified this somewhat.