Comments | julesjones: Moved to DreamWidth

julesjones

Moved to DreamWidth

Dec 31, 2030 15:49

In light of the changes in the LiveJournal Terms of Service in early 2017, and the manner in which they were implemented, I moved to Dreamwidth. I had already been cross-posting for some years, but had been running full mirroring on the posts and allowing comments on both sites. I decided that I would continue to cross-post, but turned off comments ( Read more... )

mastodon, dreamwidth

Comments 5

heleninwales December 29 2018, 16:45:21 UTC

I have no intention of moving from here. I know there are issues, but I have no wish to move to DW. I'm making increasing use of Facebook (though I still hate it) and am now using Twitter, though I read far more than I post.

I hope it will still be possible to keep in touch.

julesjones December 30 2018, 10:38:12 UTC

Don't worry, I'm not going to stop reading accounts that are on LiveJournal; I'll just be doing it from DreamWidth (and have been for some time). The difference it makes is that you'll need to friend my DreamWidth account if you want me to be able to read your locked posts. I know it is (or was) possible to authorise accounts from other platforms as friends, but it's so long since I've done it I can't remember how.

And I need to edit the post now. :-)

julesjones December 30 2018, 11:02:03 UTC

Having gone to check; yes, accounts on any site that uses the OpenID protocol can log in to LJ and be friended - but they still have to actively log in to LJ and read in the LJ screen, which does rather defeat the object of the exercise.

I may at some point have to make a filter for "people who are not also on DreamWidth" to avoid the "don't want to read half of it twice" problem. :-)

Huh? estelle February 6 2022, 13:11:53 UTC

"LJ started showing advertising on my posts to readers who weren't logged in even though I had a paid account"

They did what now? That's rotten.

Re: Huh? julesjones February 6 2022, 16:40:07 UTC

When they started heavily monetizing that was one of the ways they did it. Even if you have a paid account, ads are shown to anyone who isn't logged in. I did not renew my paid account the next time I was due to do so. I wouldn't have anyway because of the change to LGBT-hostile ToC, but the ads thing was a good reason all by itself. I am/was a professional writer, and my journal is an advert for me, not anyone else.

Just checked and they're still doing the thing with even paid accounts being used to show ads to anyone who isn't logged in.