It stands for Dreamwidth, which is a journaling site that uses LJ code, but has a smaller userbase, requires an invite code, and doesn't have some of the privacy issues that are cropping up on LJ. I haven't been as worried as some of the people on my flist, but a lot of ppl I know are moving over there. If it reaches critical mass I probably will too. It is pretty easy to move LJ archives over to there and to cross post between the 2.
That does sound pretty cool for a migration, especially seeing as it says it's for creative types. How does one get an invite code (curious, not asking for one)? Remember when LJ used to do that? I've been journaling on LJ since 2002 and would hate to lose all those entries. Or at least the important ones. And there are a lot of LJ communities I love.
Not sure what LJ is doing re: privacy. All online journaling and social networking sites have their own privacy issues. I would think if you locked all your posts down to "friends only" or even further filtered it shouldn't be an issue, but who knows. I don't keep up well. But I do have a bloody ton of filters set up here.
Apparently with the new twitter and facebook crossposting ticky boxes, someone can crosspost their comment to your post even on locked posts. For a lot of ppl, Lj is where they talk about more private things and even having a link back to their journal on such public places could be problematic whether or not the comment made the subject of the locked post apparent. I probably wouldn't have noticed thed change, but my f-list has been all abuzz about it.
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Not sure what LJ is doing re: privacy. All online journaling and social networking sites have their own privacy issues. I would think if you locked all your posts down to "friends only" or even further filtered it shouldn't be an issue, but who knows. I don't keep up well. But I do have a bloody ton of filters set up here.
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