Of course, now everybody's all "they ruined the poodle! they shaved too much!"

[conuly]

"He looks like a naked mole rat!"

Excuse me, he does not, he looks like a poodle with a pointy poodle snoot. And if anybody else in my family would like to volunteer to go with the dogs to their grooming visits, they're welcome to do so. Until then, I don't want to hear about it.

Also, his hair grows so fast, tomorrow you'll barely be able to tell he even went.

E asked me how I'm handling my life since /r/whatsthatbook shut down for the protest, and rattled off a list of subreddits she's on that are also shut down, so I told her that Dreamwidth saw an influx of redditors. I suspect they're all older than she is anyway, but if all she really wants is a place to post about Build-a-Bear fandom - hey!

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[gwydion]

Yeah. Consensus seems to be they mostly fit in pretty well. The twitter folks mostly seemed poorly socialized to older platforms, rather like adult feral cats moved inside mingling with a smaller domesticated clowder. The redditers are more like a clowder being combined with an existing clowder when people move in together. Like there's a lot of sniffing and shuffling about, but the speak the same language and have similar expectations about social rules.

People have pointed out that Reddit is also a curate your experience rather than an algorithm driven place, so the FAQs are along the lines of "Here are some settings you'll want to change, and some small social differences type things." The twitter influx FAQs were super basic, like "Reblog stuff. Likes don't matter. Don't post selfies on random popular tags because you'll get blocked and reported as spam. how to make a basic profile look like a person and not a bot so we don't block and report you."

It's very different.