Welcome to Dreamwidth!
Jan. 27th, 2019 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
benjamin_russellAs of 9:05 AM JST on Sunday, January 27, 2019, given the lack of any other clear-cut successor to Google+, this may eventually turn out to be the successor to my current Google+ account.
According to the related Wikipedia article (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamwidth),
"Dreamwidth is an online journal service based on the LiveJournal codebase. It is a code fork of the original service, set up by ex-LiveJournal staff Denise Paolucci and Mark Smith, born out of a desire for a new community based on open access, transparency, freedom and respect.
"Dreamwidth was announced on 11 June 2008 and went into open beta on 30 April 2009."
Because Dreamwidth refused to censor certain posts that did not violate its Terms of Service, but made PayPal uncomfortable, PayPal refuses to work with Dreamwidth; paradoxically, this later became the main reason that I decided to sign up for Dreamwidth with an optional Paid Account, with which I continue to subscribe.
Dreamwidth has a tendency to refuse to censor posts that other social media censor. For example, Tumblr recently censored certain types of posts that Dreamwidth refuses to censor. This is one reason that I support Dreamwidth as an alternative media platform.
