I know several people have switched over to Dreamwidth and have some method of crossposting between LJ and DW. Dreamwidth is pretty much a clone of LJ, formed by people who got fed up with some of the policy decisions of LJ in the past, so it has all the same privacy/filter controls.
The question is though, why do you want to switch away from LJ? What are you looking for in your theoretical new blog aside from it being similar to and compatible with the one you're already using?
LJ has been making bad policy calls these past few years. I've been contemplating switching but never really had the time to look into moving else where.
Really what I'm looking for is a more filtered way of staying in touch with people then Facebook.
I have dreamwidth invites. It does all that stuff (except maybe profit? I dunno. Actually LJ *does* have profit, I think - you can get a portion of ad views or something, somehow) and has some nice features LJ doesn't, like follow-without-showing-private-stuff-to.
LJ has follow-without-showing-private-stuff-to. LJ also has show-private-stuff-without-following. DW just allows you to broadcast your intent more clearly to the everyone else. On LJ, people can't easily tell who you're reading and who you're showing private stuff to, since they can't see your filters; on DW they can't see your filters either, but you can choose to publicize at least a first-pass declaration of "I read these people" and "I show private stuff to these people" separately, so other people can see that.
My mistake. I haven't used either heavily in years, and the "follow vs show" thing was one of the main complaints I heard about LJ in DW's early days. I guess I am not up on the latest!
LiveJournal is still the best. In terms of technical features, there's dreamwidth of course, which is very similar to LJ, but has far fewer users. That seems to defeat the point. Stay on LJ and encourage others to come here!
(If you do get a dw account, I'm "cos" there, though I rarely go there)
Yeah, I tried DW. I don't dislike it, but I agree with cos-- LJ has more options. I think it is best to try to stick with one and try to keep posting (and commenting) to encourage others to be here (not that I'm doing a great job myself)
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The question is though, why do you want to switch away from LJ? What are you looking for in your theoretical new blog aside from it being similar to and compatible with the one you're already using?
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Really what I'm looking for is a more filtered way of staying in touch with people then Facebook.
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I have dreamwidth invites. It does all that stuff (except maybe profit? I dunno. Actually LJ *does* have profit, I think - you can get a portion of ad views or something, somehow) and has some nice features LJ doesn't, like follow-without-showing-private-stuff-to.
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(If you do get a dw account, I'm "cos" there, though I rarely go there)
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