I've backed up my entire journal (including comments) to DW - now I'm haphazardly going back through and trying to include things like embedded videos - those links don't carry over. (Nor do user icons on comments, which is sad, but something has to give, I suppose.) I'm seriously considering starting to post over there, and just crossposting to my LJ.
DW had an announcement last month that they're working on a way to port certain kinds of communities - if they get that working, I think that DW will become much more feasable for much of fandom.
I've seen so many people say things like - 'I'm staying at LJ, because I support free speech, want to support the Russian bloggers', etc.
I find the sentiment nice and all, but.... I feel like I moved into a nice neighborhood. And a few years later, someone started growing weed a couple of blocks over. And the authorities didn't like that, so they came in and sprayed a ten-block area with bullets, just to nail the one guy growing weed. So now I'm living in a bullet-riddled house, in fear that I'm going to lose everything I've put into this home and neighborhood.
What does the sane person do? Do they stick around to 'support' the weed-grower (in this scenario, let's just say they don't mind the ganja)? No - the sane person who just wants to live in peace and quiet, and have friends over for tea without passing out the bullet-proof vests finds a new neighborhood to live in.
That's what I fear it's coming to. And I don't want to lose what I've put into this place. This is my life, and my history here. I'm tired of living in a war zone, and I'm sorry for the others living in the zone, but until the neighborhood watch can promise to protect the neighborhood from stray bullets, I see little reason to stay. I can't see how allowing yourself to be pummeled is helpful to the 'weed-grower' in any way.
(That scenario was off-the-cuff, I realize it has some weirdness.)
FB, Twitter and G+ are, like you said, good for 'keeping in touch with friends', but I'm in this for topic-based conversations, both with people I know, and people I don't - and those platforms are kind of lousy for that. :-(
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Date: 2011-08-07 04:59 pm (UTC)DW had an announcement last month that they're working on a way to port certain kinds of communities - if they get that working, I think that DW will become much more feasable for much of fandom.
I've seen so many people say things like - 'I'm staying at LJ, because I support free speech, want to support the Russian bloggers', etc.
I find the sentiment nice and all, but.... I feel like I moved into a nice neighborhood. And a few years later, someone started growing weed a couple of blocks over. And the authorities didn't like that, so they came in and sprayed a ten-block area with bullets, just to nail the one guy growing weed. So now I'm living in a bullet-riddled house, in fear that I'm going to lose everything I've put into this home and neighborhood.
What does the sane person do? Do they stick around to 'support' the weed-grower (in this scenario, let's just say they don't mind the ganja)? No - the sane person who just wants to live in peace and quiet, and have friends over for tea without passing out the bullet-proof vests finds a new neighborhood to live in.
That's what I fear it's coming to. And I don't want to lose what I've put into this place. This is my life, and my history here. I'm tired of living in a war zone, and I'm sorry for the others living in the zone, but until the neighborhood watch can promise to protect the neighborhood from stray bullets, I see little reason to stay. I can't see how allowing yourself to be pummeled is helpful to the 'weed-grower' in any way.
(That scenario was off-the-cuff, I realize it has some weirdness.)
FB, Twitter and G+ are, like you said, good for 'keeping in touch with friends', but I'm in this for topic-based conversations, both with people I know, and people I don't - and those platforms are kind of lousy for that. :-(