I reserved my username but doubt I'll jump ship, because it's unlikely that many of my LJ flist will migrate. However, if people I know tell me they are posting there I will read them.
I'm seekritly hoping enough people jump that the people that stay will still get groovy with reading over there so I could move over without leaving behind too many people. I really don't like how negative I've felt about LJ for the last year-plus, and I don't entirely want to give up the ability to post/read protected things.
Where you buy your food is in part a political choice, because your money and support goes back up the chain and is a tiny drop in what makes or breaks a business. Where you blog is in part a political choice because your content and the couple of eyeballs it draws are part of the aggregate that the owning company uses to acquire revenue. Furthermore, these choices have a small ripple impact with one's social group - if 5/6 friends are using a service, the weight will tend to draw in the 6th. We all understand voting with ballots, but we also vote, in a sense, with our time, money, effort, and associations, even if we're not actually mindful of it
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I assume the whiny fandoms come from the stereotypically geeky friends of the DreamWidth programmers. You can of course help by spreading interest in the service to, um, normal people like you and me. Can you send me an invite?
I do greatly support the creation of an open social blogging community, as LJ has been stagnating feature-wise.
Dreamwidth should write a tool to slurp your entire journal out and put it in Dreamwidth.
As soon as I get an invite code, it's yours, I'll give you first caim. You can use your openID from LJ or etc to read but not post. Also, DW users can grant access to your openID, so even without an acct there LJ people can see protected DW posts. I think there's a journal migration tool, cuz I've seen it referenced on twitter. I will totallly post more details as I dig then up. Since I'm not a whiny fandom member, I don't have all the insider info yet.
Perhaps it's worth buying a 6-month account as a donation. I certainly would donate to an open-source LJ equivalent that has a chance of growing and adding new features.
If they ever want the community to move, they'll have to make it extremely easy to "mirror" your lj and dreamwidth accounts back and forth. Then there's basically no penalty for switching as you would be effortlessly maintaining a presence in both places.
I see you're there already :) I LOVE the cross-interaction, especially that I can make filter groups of OpenIDs from LJ so people from here totally don't need to "move" there to see my protected entries, they can just OID in, and can comment and everything just like that. Also there's crossposting stuff if you're not ready to make the full transition.
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Who knowns, maybe with better LJ User representation on the LJ Advisory Board things would be better.
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I do greatly support the creation of an open social blogging community, as LJ has been stagnating feature-wise.
Dreamwidth should write a tool to slurp your entire journal out and put it in Dreamwidth.
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If they ever want the community to move, they'll have to make it extremely easy to "mirror" your lj and dreamwidth accounts back and forth. Then there's basically no penalty for switching as you would be effortlessly maintaining a presence in both places.
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