shadowspar

One more bit re LJ, since it's on my mind what with their latest brilliant decision to let people crosspost comments they make on your flocked entries to Facebook or Twitter.

When I initially started out on DW, it was completely my intention to maintain a presence on both services, because I knew that some folks would never be bothered to pick up and move over here. As time goes on, though, I increasingly can't be bothered to crosspost my entries to LJ. Though I still read my friends page there every now and again, I just don't care to contribute to a site that doesn't cultivate the goodwill and community that DW does.

damned_colonial's excellent post about friends not moving over from LJ wraps up some of what's going on my headspace, I think. If you start hanging out in new places, you drift apart a bit from friends that don't tag along. It's not a value judgement of them as a person, just a reflection of the fact that each of us has a finite amount of time, and we're choosing to spend it in different places.

ETA: I'm not sure quite what the right way to put this is, but: while I'm annoyed and distressed at Livejournal's latest screwup sort of on behalf of the folks who are still heavily invested there, have I ever mentioned how great it is to be able to wipe your hands and go OMG NOT MY PROBLEM when something like this happens? Dear Dreamwidth and everybody who's contributed: thanks for being awesome. <3

Denise explains here.

If you dislike this idea as much as I do (or if you dislike the barrage of gross diet ads you get on Facebook when you set your gender to "female") then perhaps you'd be interested in offering LJ some feedback.

ETA: as it turns out, this code made it to beta and isn't going live, for (what sounds like) this and other reasons.