Looking at Dreamwidth's features...

I never really used "interests" on Livejournal as a kid, but now that most of us have gotten used to what I'd call the "global tags" model of finding other users (ie, you look at everyone posting in the "furry" tag to find other furries), they're really striking me as an interesting alternate system for people-finding. I'm noticing that some other people moving from Cohost have marked "cohost" as an interest! That makes it a lot easier to find people from Cohost on this different website.

This Tumblr post mentions a crazy hidden feature, which is that Dreamwidth... supports Markdown?

"But don’t worry! Dreamwidth supports Markdown. All you have to do is write !markdown at the top of your post and you’re off to the races"

Actually, hold on. It's got a lot of other interesting information, too.

( let's see if site embeds can display on this thing... )

Whether or not that embed works (and if the blog ever deletes, you can just go to this snapshot), this lets me display another feature - how cuts work on Dreamwidth! You can have multiple per post, and set where they end as well as where they *start*. I always thought this was a cool feature on Livejournal, and was always sad that readmore-cuts on other sites only let you set the start-point.

I wonder how many 2000's websites I didn't even use or know about as a kid just... had similarly useful and interesting features that 2010's social media never adopted. It's an interesting question.