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Over the past couple of months, I've been getting more comfortable on Dreamwidth. Weirdly, it feels different to me than LJ does. It makes no sense to me, but I'm far more comfortable here, to the point that I'm actively posting, reading, and commenting. I feel like I have more control, and that more things are in the pipeline that will make me happy than is the case at LJ; there are already a lot of things that I'm finding really useful and whose design suits me (like "thread from start" in comment threads. omg, thank you, whatever coder did that!).
So I was pretty sure that eventually I'd move to DW completely, and probably stop cross-posting, and I've been thinking I'd do the Three Weeks for Dreamwidth thing as a way to sort of ease into that over the next few weeks.
LJ just sped that up for me a bit. I find that I can't bring myself to put links there, knowing that every single link is being harvested and fed to a third party any time someone mouses over them.[1] I don't actually want any link I may choose to post, including all of my footer links, being fed to an outside site -- which is completely separate from my unwillingness to let LJ (or anyone else) try to monetize my posts. It's the whole concept of sending my content out to a third party to be inspected, without my consent, and potentially modifying my content, again without my consent. It's creeping me out, bluntly.
This isn't an "LJ is ebil, ohnoes!" post; LJ is a business, and it made what it believes to be a sound business decision, and that's fine. But the effects of that decision bother me personally, and I don't want to be a part of it.
I don't expect other people to share my reaction, and I apologize to people who are interested in following my posts but who don't want to have to go to DW to find them. But I just don't want to put new content on LJ anymore, so from here on out, all my posts will be on DW alone.
FWIW, I have anon and open-ID commenting turned on, and that will stay true unless I start getting hit with spammers.
(I do have four DW invites, though, if anyone wants them.)
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[1] That link has directions on how to turn the script off on pages you're looking at if you're logged in to LJ, so it's worth checking out - if nothing else, that script is slowing down site performance. But it's connected to your username, not your journal; there's no way to turn it off so that other people aren't being hit with it when they look at your links.
So I was pretty sure that eventually I'd move to DW completely, and probably stop cross-posting, and I've been thinking I'd do the Three Weeks for Dreamwidth thing as a way to sort of ease into that over the next few weeks.
LJ just sped that up for me a bit. I find that I can't bring myself to put links there, knowing that every single link is being harvested and fed to a third party any time someone mouses over them.[1] I don't actually want any link I may choose to post, including all of my footer links, being fed to an outside site -- which is completely separate from my unwillingness to let LJ (or anyone else) try to monetize my posts. It's the whole concept of sending my content out to a third party to be inspected, without my consent, and potentially modifying my content, again without my consent. It's creeping me out, bluntly.
This isn't an "LJ is ebil, ohnoes!" post; LJ is a business, and it made what it believes to be a sound business decision, and that's fine. But the effects of that decision bother me personally, and I don't want to be a part of it.
I don't expect other people to share my reaction, and I apologize to people who are interested in following my posts but who don't want to have to go to DW to find them. But I just don't want to put new content on LJ anymore, so from here on out, all my posts will be on DW alone.
FWIW, I have anon and open-ID commenting turned on, and that will stay true unless I start getting hit with spammers.
(I do have four DW invites, though, if anyone wants them.)
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[1] That link has directions on how to turn the script off on pages you're looking at if you're logged in to LJ, so it's worth checking out - if nothing else, that script is slowing down site performance. But it's connected to your username, not your journal; there's no way to turn it off so that other people aren't being hit with it when they look at your links.
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The opt-out thing works, though, I tested it. *g*