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The Exodus to Dreamwidth

Apr 15, 2017 13:19

Given the recent changes to LJ's TOS and the subsequent migration to Dreamwidth, I'm considering either backing up apocalypse_kree over there, or just moving the whole community over. Before I do, how do you all feel about that?

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goddess47 April 15 2017, 18:55:05 UTC

I'm on both LJ and DW and going to hang on to LJ as long as I can... last woman standing sort of thing...

But I don't currently have the time/energy to back up, copy, etc the comms I have and to find the folk I've friended to see what they are doing... so I'm not giving up soon..

Whichever will be fine!

dreigiau April 19 2017, 18:58:58 UTC

I'm not that familiar with Dreamwidth or what the deal is with DW vs LJ, so if anyone wish to explain that issue to me, feel free. :)

skieswideopen April 20 2017, 01:24:00 UTC

The issue is really LJ's new terms of service. DW is just the most obvious alternative for people who like the LJ experience, but don't want to continue using it with the new terms of service.

Under the new TOS (the binding version of which is only available in Russian, so if you don't speak Russian, you don't actually know what you're agreeing to), all content is supposed to abide by the laws of the Russian federation. The general feeling seems to be that they're going to target political speech, but it looks like LGBT material could also be targeted or taken down.

I don't think the new LJ terms are likely to directly negatively impact most non-Russian users, apart from the possible deletion of LGBT discussions or fic--or possibly only if it's not marked 18+; it's not clear--but I also know some people really don't like agreeing to terms they can't read.

There are a few articles out there, if you want to read more. Here for example, or here.

Does that help?

dreigiau April 30 2017, 22:53:39 UTC

That helps! Thank you. I notice that some LJ users have changed their names to end with dreamwidth.org, so I assume that means they have moved their stuff to dw?