Still Here, However Quiet

[akirlu]

Because the meme is going around, here's my public position on switching journal hosts: I will leave LJ when they pry it from my cold, dead, fingers, or when the traffic here generally becomes too slow and corrupt to bother with in its own right. I don't feel a DDOS attack is something that you punish the victim for. I still think of Dreamwidth as the place where the Holier Than Thou brigade flounced off to after they shat all over LJ and then declared it unclean. I would tolerate DW if I had to, but the bad taste in my mouth over the timing and mode of the exodus, and the damn' PeptoBismol pink Dreamwidth banner (have they ditched that yet?), does not make it appealing.

And then there's the siren call of inertia. Of the top ten things I want to get done this week, getting familiar with the workings of my Dreamwidth account so I can crosspost from there to here does not figure in at all. Nor in the top 50. After Mandarin, knitting, and sleep, my dogs need walking and grooming, my cats need play time, the roses need pruning, the fruit trees ditto, the flower beds need grooming, the bulbs need fertilizing, and I keep meaning to try that simple recipe for shrimp shui mai. And I need a haircut. And I need a plan for the mud pit under the apple tree, which probably involves hardscaping. If after all of that I have time for some online socializing, I'd rather spend it on the actual journal writing and not on figuring out how to make the wheels go 'round.

So there. I'm here. Get used to it.

Comments

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

feh I'm still waiting for the convergence that shatters the stovepipe walls between lj & fb & twitter & linkedin &c &c
I don't think it'll be real soon, though. *sigh*

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not leaving, either. No one I used to follow is exclusively at DW, they all mirror here, so...whatever.

[kaffy-r.livejournal.com]

While I am generally more wishy-washy than you, I think I share most of what you've said here.

Wishy-washily, of course; there are a few folk I know who, while having a low holier-than-thou quotient, still moved over to DW.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Me here too. I have a DW account, but I only use it to read a few people over there.

[voidampersand.livejournal.com]

My icon has been shatting all over LJ for almost six years now. I don't know that it makes me holier than thou. Maybe snarkier.

My impression of DW is that it's run by nice people with modest ambitions. They're programmers. They want a gig where they can write good code and make enough money at it to keep it going. As a programmer, I can relate to that. I have an account on DW but the reality is I spend more time on LJ because it's still where most of the people are.

The latest DDoS attacks appear to be political, because LJ is the home of the Russian dissident bloggers criticizing the corrupt government. All of us who were upset over LJ's heavy handed attempts at censorship must now stand by them as champions of free speech. Even President Medvedev has joined in, condemning the "revolting and illegal" attacks on his own LJ. And I think my irony dosimeter just melted.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

One thing about Dreamwidth is that I only ever see it mentioned by my fannish LJ Friends. I've never looked at it myself, and one reason is I feel that there's a smaller pool of people there.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. This. If DW had a critical mass of interesting fen being interesting, I might view it differently, but it seems like the same ol' thing, only less of it.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I don't mean icon images when I say "shat all over LJ". I was referring to mobbing, dogpiling, and other bad behaviors with respect to the various iterations of Race Fail, after which any number of the more egregious Race Failures stomped off complaining that LJ was a toxic environment that didn't nurture their special snowflaky goodness.

I'm staying put too.

[u-must-b-joking.livejournal.com]

For much the same reasons.