Dreamwidth uses two types of filters: access filters and reading filters.
Access filters control who you allow to read what you have written.
Reading filters control what you choose to read from other journals. There is more information about the difference between access filters and reading filters at the links at this FAQ.
When you create a post, you have the choice of who is allowed to see it (again, this has to do with Access filters). If you choose "everyone," you are making a public entry: anyone can look at the post--they don't have to have a Dreamwidth account. See this FAQ for more information.
If you'd like to limit access to allow just a certain circle of people to read your post, they would have to have a Dreamwidth account and you would have to set up an access filter and add them to it. You have set up multiple access filters and choose who you'd like to add to each.
(Note that you can also control who can comment on your posts--whether anyone can, with or without a Dreamwidth account, or whether only people who have a Dreamwidth account can comment, or only certain people, on a particular access filter, can comment.)
I suspect you'd probably do most of your entries as public--that's the default mode. But it's entirely up to you.
If people wish to subscribe to your account so that they are notified every time you post, then there are several ways they can do that.
They can, if they choose, set up a Dreamwidth account, and then subscribe to your journal. That is what I have done. Then, I can see your posts when I check my reading page.
They might then choose to add your journal to one or more of their reading filters. I have added several different reading filters, and I have added your journal to my default reading filter.
But there is another way that a reader can see your posts if they don't have a Dreamwidth account:
1) they can just periodically check your journal to see if you have posted anything new.
2) if they have a blog on another platform that uses it, they can subscribe with OpenID. See this FAQ.
3) If they use an RSS or ATOM feeder, they can add the link for your ATOM or RSS feed and then read the post in their own reader. This is a way that people can collect all the links for all the blogs they'd like to follow from all over the internet and read them all in one place. See this FAQ. Your feeds are
Here's an article about RSS readers if you are not familiar with the concept.
4) You can also, if you choose, push your posts by email. If you have collected the email addresses of people who have said they would like to follow your blog, then once you have made your post, you can click "Share this entry" and put in the email addresses you'd like to see it.
These are just the ways I can think of to share your posts off the top of my head; there may be others, too, if you poke around in the FAQs a bit.
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Date: 2023-07-04 08:18 pm (UTC)Dreamwidth uses two types of filters: access filters and reading filters.
Access filters control who you allow to read what you have written.
Reading filters control what you choose to read from other journals. There is more information about the difference between access filters and reading filters at the links at this FAQ.
When you create a post, you have the choice of who is allowed to see it (again, this has to do with Access filters). If you choose "everyone," you are making a public entry: anyone can look at the post--they don't have to have a Dreamwidth account. See this FAQ for more information.
If you'd like to limit access to allow just a certain circle of people to read your post, they would have to have a Dreamwidth account and you would have to set up an access filter and add them to it. You have set up multiple access filters and choose who you'd like to add to each.
(Note that you can also control who can comment on your posts--whether anyone can, with or without a Dreamwidth account, or whether only people who have a Dreamwidth account can comment, or only certain people, on a particular access filter, can comment.)
I suspect you'd probably do most of your entries as public--that's the default mode. But it's entirely up to you.
If people wish to subscribe to your account so that they are notified every time you post, then there are several ways they can do that.
They can, if they choose, set up a Dreamwidth account, and then subscribe to your journal. That is what I have done. Then, I can see your posts when I check my reading page.
They might then choose to add your journal to one or more of their reading filters. I have added several different reading filters, and I have added your journal to my default reading filter.
But there is another way that a reader can see your posts if they don't have a Dreamwidth account:
1) they can just periodically check your journal to see if you have posted anything new.
2) if they have a blog on another platform that uses it, they can subscribe with OpenID. See this FAQ.
3) If they use an RSS or ATOM feeder, they can add the link for your ATOM or RSS feed and then read the post in their own reader. This is a way that people can collect all the links for all the blogs they'd like to follow from all over the internet and read them all in one place. See this FAQ. Your feeds are
https://rworo.dreamwidth.org/data/rss
and
https://rworo.dreamwidth.org/data/atom
Here's an article about RSS readers if you are not familiar with the concept.
4) You can also, if you choose, push your posts by email. If you have collected the email addresses of people who have said they would like to follow your blog, then once you have made your post, you can click "Share this entry" and put in the email addresses you'd like to see it.
These are just the ways I can think of to share your posts off the top of my head; there may be others, too, if you poke around in the FAQs a bit.
Let me know if you have any questions.