I hadn't seen that, though elainegrey had posted a brief summary of such thoughts, as had whereisjoy. DreamWidth itself is encouraging its users to support LiveJournal by maintaining our presence as much as possible but not doing things like exporting our entries from LJ so we don't contribute to the overloading of the servers.
So yeah, it's super-important to support LiveJournal by not abandoning the service or stopping payments if one makes them (which...I don't since I bought a permanent account a long time ago before it was a totally commercial enterprise).
I'm not interested in leaving LJ. It's been my primary platform for both social networking and for blogging since 2003, and while some folks will be leaving, most of my friends have been around long enough that nobody's going anywhere. But with my energy being as low as it is, I do want to be able to write a post when I have mustered up the energy to do so, and DW (with its LJ-crossposting capacity) allows me to do this. Furthermore, it allows my readers at LiveJournal (such as they are) to read what I've got to write.
It's the double-bind of wanting to support freedom of speech everywhere but not being able to speak myself very frequently due to health crap. My jumping on the DW bandwagon now is an attempt not to let the inconvenience of LJ's DDoS attacks keep me from participating in public writing altogether.
BTW, are you going to naughtyfox's shindig next week? I'll be saving up my energy to have some fun with the gang :)
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Date: 2011-04-07 10:17 pm (UTC)So yeah, it's super-important to support LiveJournal by not abandoning the service or stopping payments if one makes them (which...I don't since I bought a permanent account a long time ago before it was a totally commercial enterprise).
I'm not interested in leaving LJ. It's been my primary platform for both social networking and for blogging since 2003, and while some folks will be leaving, most of my friends have been around long enough that nobody's going anywhere. But with my energy being as low as it is, I do want to be able to write a post when I have mustered up the energy to do so, and DW (with its LJ-crossposting capacity) allows me to do this. Furthermore, it allows my readers at LiveJournal (such as they are) to read what I've got to write.
It's the double-bind of wanting to support freedom of speech everywhere but not being able to speak myself very frequently due to health crap. My jumping on the DW bandwagon now is an attempt not to let the inconvenience of LJ's DDoS attacks keep me from participating in public writing altogether.
BTW, are you going to