It's a bit of a habit change to adjust to find and cultivate a feed (a little bit like tumblr, only more journalistic in format) - you have to put more effort into actively searching for a tag if you want to follow it for journal entries, but there are some comms (communities) that help connect new people. I think it's more personable, and I like the set-up that allows people to interact with both fics and the authors within a single entry.
The fandom calendar is a pretty good place to start, I think, since it shows a bunch of gift exchanges hosted on AO3 and there's a lot of overlap in people on both sites because of that. The Yuletide gift exchange also has a Dreamwidth account, and that's also a good starting point for connecting with people with similar interests.
I would say that the biggest drawback is that you need to know a bit of HTML if you want to post entries with things like italics or bolding, but they do have a page on their FAQ about what HTML is available here. Someone taught me when I got on to Dreamwidth how to do a basic formatting when cross-posting from AO3, and I put a modified version that I use, with a couple extra notes, onto pastebin, if anyone thinks it'll be useful for them.
I would say that the biggest drawback is that you need to know a bit of HTML if you want to post entries with things like italics or bolding
First, Dreamwidth has a rich text editor.
Second, the HTML editor allows you to use Markdown, which is always less effort than using DW's supported subset of HTML (worst case, you just fall back to using DW's supported subset of HTML if what you want to express isn't possible work in Markdown)
(That help page is slightly out of date, though, since DW has acquired support for Markdown in comments.)
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