Couple newbie questions

[razzleberry]

What is the difference between subscribing to someone's journal, and having access granted? Is it that I subscribe to Jane's journal, and then she grants me access, or is there some fundamental difference between what you can see on each other's pages?

Do I have to upload photos to a host site (like photobucket) and link them here?

Thanks for your advice - still trying to learn my way around here.

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[stewardess]

Dreamwidth has separated the two functions in LJ's "friend." When you friend someone on LJ, you subscribe to read their public posts on your f-list, AND you give them access to your f-locked content. Now you can subscribe to someone without also giving them access to your locked content. It's perfect when you want to read someone's public posts regularly but don't know them personally.

If someone subscribes to you, but does not grant you access, she can read your public posts on her "flist" (here called Reading Page) and you cannot access her locked content. If she also grants you access, you can read her locked content.

So the "flist" becomes two things, a subscription list and an access list.

It gets confusing when you set up filters, because you have to create separate filters for subscriptions and access. Filters are optional, though.

In my subscription filter, I leave out communities since they can be extremely active. I have just two access filters, one for people I've known a long time, and another dinky one for people I know extremely well (usually met in person).

Dreamwidth doesn't have image hosting yet, so yep you have to use photobucket or something like it.