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[brin_bellway]

It could easily be a coincidence, but I do wonder if it says something about, like, the slower pace of Dreamwidth and its embrace of asynchronous communication, that I meet so many Australians on here.

(who cares if we have opposite schedules, we'll just have conversations in which responses are spaced twelve hours apart, it's not like this is Discord)

On Tumblr you hear jokes like "you know you're up late when you start seeing Australians"†, but here the process is more "*wakes up, goes downstairs, turns on laptop* ah, time to see what the Australians have been up to today".

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†I would like to point out that I *do* read my entire Tumblr dash, in chronological order, but there does seem to be a common assumption on Tumblr that people don't do that.

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[thedarlingone]

"It is night. You are likely to be reblogged by an Australian." ^_^

(I think I only know one Australian, Pedanther, but my own internet presence is fairly asynchronous anyway...)

[brin_bellway]

>>I think I only know one Australian, Pedanther<<

Last I saw, you were making friends with contrarianarchon (whom I'd guess found you through my comment roundups): they were one of the bigger inspirations for this post, thanks to their often leaving comments on my blog at about 1 AM my time.

This morning I came online to find four posts wolffyluna had made over the course of her day, which was what prompted me to actually post this.

(I would like to reiterate that I am completely okay with both of these things)

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I've known a lot of nocturnal Americans over the years, too. I remember back in the day, I would draft up replies to anshinwrites and then leave them in a notepad until it was late enough in the evening for them to be online, since they *did* have a dash too busy to keep up with and sometimes didn't see responses if I posted while they were asleep.

[contrarianarchon]

first, let me second reading my entire tumblr dashboard every day like clockwork.

second, amusement in general.

Third, yes, we've talked a little, and I *am* Australian. I even have the dreaded half-hour time zone!

(I'm ... assuming this will also notify TheDarlingOne, but IDK.)

In terms of actual response to OP, I can't say - I never used tumblr for social-media, it's 95% pure content aggregation for me. that said, I also used discord, which is the very definition of non-asynchronous social media, despite my interactions being heavily colored by my time-zone (though it actually can be pretty asynchronous - there are several servers where I read everything ever posted), so what do I know.

[wolffyluna]

I'll admit the slow, asynchronous pace of dreamwidth is one of the reasons I like it. I don't keep getting left behind, or left out of conversations, by the Europeans and Americans as I would in a faster or more ~chat-like site.

[deird1]

I do appreciate that about dreamwidth, yes. I think my reading list is equal thirds Aussies, Americans, and Europeans.