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Thanks for this!

The environment online is so so different from when LJ launched. It's not even analogous, really. What made LJ a great community for so many different groups is not what is going to make Dreamwidth work today, IMHO.

Simply because people DO have so many options. Even people who love Dreamwidth, who are happy here, are branching out into Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook, while possibly still keeping a foot in LJ.

I agree that small frequent posts, and sharing yourself and sharing links (and in my community's case, sharing fanworks), is the way to keep the interactions happening.

But the comparison to LJ ten years ago breaks down completely, IMHO. People seem to like being spread very thin online, and that makes their participation on each platform more sporadic. There are only so many hours in the day, you know? Unless they use a crosspost function.

Maybe that's the strength of DW as a central location, come to think of it, for those who want to be a lot of different places on the web.