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mathmagicalschema made a really helpful post about translating dreamwidth from tumblr here
A Summary: Reblogs are no longer a thing, and apparently memories assume the role of both archival reblogs and likes, in the sense that when you make a memory you can tag the post to find it later. Memories, like posts proper, have varying levels of privacy settings. If it's set to super private, it's like if you had your hidden stash of shame likes. If it's public, visitors can rifle through them, like the archives on your tumblr blog. If you want to like something to give the OP a thumbs up, you comment directly.
EDIT:
Youzicha asked a question that I've been wondering myself
So the whole subscribe/grants access thing appears to be that subscribing is like following somebody (like taking out a magazine subscription). Meanwhile, on your journal, when you make a post, you can decide who gets to see it, anywhere from Level 1: scream into void, even google will index it, to Only Level 7 Friends Can Unlock My Tragic Backstory. Granting access is a screening process for who gets to see higher levels of privacy. The culture here is such that people who are subscribed to tend to automatically allow access, because not oversharing on the internet/being okay with being a Hot Mess in a public space are things we, collectively, have learned by now.
EDIT 2:
HELL YEAH SEPERIS WROTE EVERYTHING I GOT HERE AND THEN SOME, PLUS THE COMMENTS ARE A G O L D M I N E
To quote directly as a summary,
"Your Circle is your reading list; this is how you control who you read.
Access List is how you control who can read your posts.
Granting Access: granting access means you are explicitly letting someone have access to your locked posts. At the bottom of your Post page, "Show this entry to: Access List". Anything you want to limit access to, this is how it's done.
You can also create custom groups out of your Access List, giving certain people access to access-locked posts but not others."
As an addenum, here is a copy/paste of a comment by kore discussing how to have pictures (relevant link here)
"If you want to upload images to Dreamwidth, go here: https://www.dreamwidth.org/file/new
There's a drag-n-drop interface even I find easy to use. You can also choose whether your images are viewable to all, to your access list, or just you. You do NOT have to have a paid account to upload images, BUT the image limit is 500 MB.
One workaround for hosting photos might be for people to upload images to Google Photos and then embed the photos. You can do it with this link https://ctrlq.org/google/photos/ (someone on my flist thought of this, no idea who now). Not sure how that plays out in terms of Google and privacy, but it's better than people asking DW to increase photo storage immediately."
A Summary: Reblogs are no longer a thing, and apparently memories assume the role of both archival reblogs and likes, in the sense that when you make a memory you can tag the post to find it later. Memories, like posts proper, have varying levels of privacy settings. If it's set to super private, it's like if you had your hidden stash of shame likes. If it's public, visitors can rifle through them, like the archives on your tumblr blog. If you want to like something to give the OP a thumbs up, you comment directly.
EDIT:
Youzicha asked a question that I've been wondering myself
So the whole subscribe/grants access thing appears to be that subscribing is like following somebody (like taking out a magazine subscription). Meanwhile, on your journal, when you make a post, you can decide who gets to see it, anywhere from Level 1: scream into void, even google will index it, to Only Level 7 Friends Can Unlock My Tragic Backstory. Granting access is a screening process for who gets to see higher levels of privacy. The culture here is such that people who are subscribed to tend to automatically allow access, because not oversharing on the internet/being okay with being a Hot Mess in a public space are things we, collectively, have learned by now.
EDIT 2:
HELL YEAH SEPERIS WROTE EVERYTHING I GOT HERE AND THEN SOME, PLUS THE COMMENTS ARE A G O L D M I N E
To quote directly as a summary,
"Your Circle is your reading list; this is how you control who you read.
Access List is how you control who can read your posts.
Granting Access: granting access means you are explicitly letting someone have access to your locked posts. At the bottom of your Post page, "Show this entry to: Access List". Anything you want to limit access to, this is how it's done.
You can also create custom groups out of your Access List, giving certain people access to access-locked posts but not others."
As an addenum, here is a copy/paste of a comment by kore discussing how to have pictures (relevant link here)
"If you want to upload images to Dreamwidth, go here: https://www.dreamwidth.org/file/new
There's a drag-n-drop interface even I find easy to use. You can also choose whether your images are viewable to all, to your access list, or just you. You do NOT have to have a paid account to upload images, BUT the image limit is 500 MB.
One workaround for hosting photos might be for people to upload images to Google Photos and then embed the photos. You can do it with this link https://ctrlq.org/google/photos/ (someone on my flist thought of this, no idea who now). Not sure how that plays out in terms of Google and privacy, but it's better than people asking DW to increase photo storage immediately."
