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Dealing with the diaspora
Aug. 5th, 2007 01:07 amYou know, I really liked LiveJournal. I've been using it for four years—that's a long time, on the internet. Heck, it's a long time in my life! I like the interface, I've figured out how to make it do the things I want it to do, and I've got a whole lot of writing archived here. I've even given them money (via paying for paid accounts), which is not a thing I do very often on the internet!
But now LJ is worrying me. Actually—Strikethrough worried me, but I read the official apology and I was willing to wait and see how things developed as time went on. Boldthrough is pissing me off. Not to mention the Report Abuse link now at the bottom of every page.
So, what to do? I'm certainly not going to give LJ any more money. I'm going to back up my journals (something I should have done a long time ago anyway, except I didn't know how, so I guess that's a silver lining—people are posting instructions and links all over the place now, such as here and here!). And then there's the whole issue of alternate journalling sites ... which is where it starts to get messy and complicated.
Right now it's looking like the big three, the ones everyone's turning to, are InsaneJournal, GreatestJournal, and JournalFen.
As of now, I'm shadowscast at InsaneJournal and at GreatestJournal. (Anyone feel like giving me a JournalFen invite so I can make it a hat trick? ... I'm so not kidding.) And I'm not getting rid of my LiveJournal, not unless things go entirely pear-shaped.
The problem is, this means things are getting complicated. I didn't want them to be complicated. I wanted them to be simple! It was already complicated enough for me, maintaining both a RL LiveJournal and a fannish one—I haven't even been reading my fannish flist for ages and ages, since it got unmanageable, and one of my vacation projects was going to be to make some proper filters so that I could actually read it again. (Btw, since none of my non-fannish friends are talking about migrating—they're probably largely unaware of the whole kerfuffle anyway—I will be keeping my RL journal on LiveJournal for sure. What the heck, it's a free account.)
So now there's the question of which flist to read (all three of them?) and which journal to post to. Gah, so messy! At least someone posted handy instructions for posting to several journals simultaneously. I'll be attempting that for the first time with this post—we'll see how that goes! But then, seriously, if you are reading three or four flists on three or four journalling sites, do you really want to see this post of mine showing up three times? I doubt it! *sigh*
Okay, self: take a deep breath. In time, the dust will settle. We will figure out how to stay in touch with our corner of fandom. We will go back to having fun sharing wild theories about character arcs and writing stories about people and vampires cuddling sweetly. (Or, you know, whatever.)
But now LJ is worrying me. Actually—Strikethrough worried me, but I read the official apology and I was willing to wait and see how things developed as time went on. Boldthrough is pissing me off. Not to mention the Report Abuse link now at the bottom of every page.
So, what to do? I'm certainly not going to give LJ any more money. I'm going to back up my journals (something I should have done a long time ago anyway, except I didn't know how, so I guess that's a silver lining—people are posting instructions and links all over the place now, such as here and here!). And then there's the whole issue of alternate journalling sites ... which is where it starts to get messy and complicated.
Right now it's looking like the big three, the ones everyone's turning to, are InsaneJournal, GreatestJournal, and JournalFen.
As of now, I'm shadowscast at InsaneJournal and at GreatestJournal. (Anyone feel like giving me a JournalFen invite so I can make it a hat trick? ... I'm so not kidding.) And I'm not getting rid of my LiveJournal, not unless things go entirely pear-shaped.
The problem is, this means things are getting complicated. I didn't want them to be complicated. I wanted them to be simple! It was already complicated enough for me, maintaining both a RL LiveJournal and a fannish one—I haven't even been reading my fannish flist for ages and ages, since it got unmanageable, and one of my vacation projects was going to be to make some proper filters so that I could actually read it again. (Btw, since none of my non-fannish friends are talking about migrating—they're probably largely unaware of the whole kerfuffle anyway—I will be keeping my RL journal on LiveJournal for sure. What the heck, it's a free account.)
So now there's the question of which flist to read (all three of them?) and which journal to post to. Gah, so messy! At least someone posted handy instructions for posting to several journals simultaneously. I'll be attempting that for the first time with this post—we'll see how that goes! But then, seriously, if you are reading three or four flists on three or four journalling sites, do you really want to see this post of mine showing up three times? I doubt it! *sigh*
Okay, self: take a deep breath. In time, the dust will settle. We will figure out how to stay in touch with our corner of fandom. We will go back to having fun sharing wild theories about character arcs and writing stories about people and vampires cuddling sweetly. (Or, you know, whatever.)
