Hello everyone! I'm new to dreamwidth.

[poggemos]

I don't know if anyone will see this. I don't know how to get people to see this, which is why I need people to see it. Ah, the struggles of being new. On the off-chance someone stumbles across this, hello! It's good to see you. I'd like some help figuring out this site so if you could help me or at least direct me to someone who can, that would be great.

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[asoko]

Hi, welcome to Dreamwidth!

Is there any particular area of the site that you'd like help with?

[poggemos]

How the tagging system works mostly. How did you discover this post? Also, the subscribing/whatever system seems complicated. It's certainly different from LJ.

[asoko]

Tagging doesn't work globally AFAIK, that is, if you made a post and tagged it with cats, I wouldn't be able find it via a site search. However it may show up if I click the cat tag on latest things depending on how recently it was posted.

I discovered your post via latest things, if you click there you'll see a snap shot the public posts that were made to the site in the last 5 minutes.

This can be accessed by going to explore -> latest

Let's say you wanted to follow an artist on DW, meaning you want their entries to show up on your reading feed, you'll hit the subscribe button. However the act of subscribing doesn't allow them to read your protected entries (nothing's stopping them from reading your public posts).

But if you wanted it to be mutual, for them to be able to read your protected entries(and public) you'll the hit access button.

Put another way, you reading the artist's entries via your feed = subscribing to them.

Artist reading your friends locked entries(protected, plus public entries = artist given access from you.

Hope this helps. You can read a much better explanation of the feature here

[franzeska]

"interests" = tagging of whole accounts, site-wide

"tags" = tagging of individual posts on someone's own blog, not site-wide

(So just like Livejournal in that respect.)

How to find stuff: find an account you like and then look at their reading list. You'll only see posts you have access to, but the general read filters are available on anybody's account by putting "/read" on the end of their URL. For example:

https://seperis.dreamwidth.org/read
https://astolat.dreamwidth.org/read
https://troisroyaumes.dreamwidth.org/read