As a social media platform, Dreamwidth is far, far better for actually TALKING to people than tumblr ever was, but as a news source, it was really useful. There are just a bunch of things that media outlets don't report on properly, if at all. And I just really loved getting NEW!BOOK!INFO! straight on my dash, about books that were small, indie, or self-published alongside major publishers with no bias towards the big money.

I'm also really worried about the autistic community. The dual usage of the word 'stimming' by both autistic people and kink communities has pretty much doomed all the autistic users and content. Autistic communities take time to develop and evolve, and, in general, autistic people don't deal well with change this catastrophic.