Dreamwidth rollcall

[annathepiper]

Out of general curiosity, who all out there on my LJ Friends list has a Dreamwidth account and is preferring to use Dreamwidth over LJ these days?

If I don't already have you on my Circle over yonder, sing out.

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[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

Not me.

[annathepiper]

Heh, no worries!

[cruisedirector]

I post exactly the same things to LJ and DW, but if LJ does not allow us to opt out of people linking to their comments on our locked posts, I may turn off comments here and direct people to the posts at DW.

[annathepiper]

I have you on my Circle over on DW, of course, so that's all good.

I'm pondering whether to turn off comments here, myself. I have folks who comment who are only on LJ, though I might redirect them over to my WP blogs.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

You know all the comments on *my* public posts get punted over to my WP blog... and, yeah, that's a good idea, punting private comments back to DW via OpenID... 'course, I'd have to diff out who I'm missing over here and remote friend'em...

I'm wondering about the remote reading, too...

[annathepiper]

I wasn't thinking of punting the private comments over necessarily. Mostly thinking of rearranging my comment chain so that LJ traffic is encouraged to go either to the Wordpress blogs or over to DW. Dunno. My crossposting efforts may be a bit TOO complex. *^_^*;;

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

I have a Dreamwidth account (same handle), but I don't use it often. I have it just in case.

[annathepiper]

Duly noted! I've dropped you a Subscribe request over there. Answer at your leisure. :)

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

What you said.

I don't really want to migrate but I don't want to lose people, either. :-/

[maellenkleth]

see you there, then. DW|maellenkleth, of course. ^_^

[annathepiper]

That's been my main hesitation in making the jump, myself. But I'm beginning to wonder whether the ongoing little repeated FAILS here on LJ are worth it--and since my origination point for my posts has moved off to my own server anyway, well.

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I also have the permanent account dilemma - plus communities I'm invested in adding to the mix.

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

I have access over at Dreamwidth using my LJ id. I've even implemented it enough that my posts won't look totally stupid, but I only use it to talk to friends who are active over there.

[annathepiper]

Ah okay. I'm not ready to jump ship on LJ, but if I shift primary focus over to DW, I'll give plenty of warning here.

(Although really if I jump ship on LJ at all it'll be more a question of directing comments to my Wordpress sites.)

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

i have a dw account, but i never look at it; seems like i'm gonna have to start. (my lj account is permanent, so it's a bit hard to leave...)

[annathepiper]

I threw DW money earlier this year just because I approved of their handling of their site, and because out of all the LJ clones I've encountered to date, they seem the best.

But I'm still mostly using it as a mirror of content from Wordpress, and I don't get nearly as much comment traffic there as I do here.

Sympathies about the permanent account, yeah; that does tend to argue against bailing completely!

[maellenkleth]

permanent account here, yup, likewise. DW|maellenkleth is just basic. We are, however, permanent (a 'seed' account, for throwing seed money at Dreamwidth) at DW|unexpected-finn

and while we're on the line, d'ya suppose we could wrangle another conjoint dinner date with you, partner(s) of your choice, Bai, and onebrightroad (and his partner) later this month? maybe somewhere on the Red Line?

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

oh HELL yeah :)

[firni.livejournal.com]

What is this business about LJ going all "we're gonna screw your privacy" I've seen tonight?

[annathepiper]

I covered it in a post this morning here.

[firni.livejournal.com]

Ah, I've been at yet another biopsy and couch-surfing since then.

[annathepiper]

No worries! I think you get a pass for being legitimately BUSY.

[maellenkleth]

mrrrr, ohhhh. **comfort** to you.

[mdlbear]

I'm there (with the same username), but rarely use it except to read. That may change, but right now I'm not crossposting.

[maellenkleth]

well, when you are, I'll see you there. d'you know if Rowan-from-down-the-hall is on there, too?

[mdlbear]

Not under her usual userid, certainly. She's no longer across the hall from me -- I have a cubicle in another city now (though I haven't changed companies).

[annathepiper]

Cool, thanks for letting me know!

[rmd.livejournal.com]

I'm there. Same name. Sporadically reading there.

[annathepiper]

Awesome! Thanks!

[peregrine-ek.livejournal.com]

I apparently have an account that I forgot about. I have no interest in using it though since I mostly post over on Facebook now.

[annathepiper]

No worries! And of course you've already touched bases with me there. It's all good. :)

[sianmink.livejournal.com]

I'm over there on account of scans_daily but I don't post to my account or anything.

Not that I do much more here.

[annathepiper]

So noted! Thanks for checking in. :)

[alinsa.livejournal.com]

I have a dreamwidth account, but to be completely honest, I haven't really had the time to do much of anything with it... I really have no idea what the status of my friends list (etc) is over there. Plus, the last time I looked my friends list hadn't really hit "critical mass" well enough to warrant trying to follow two different friends pages, when I have enough trouble remembering to do a single one.

Wish there was a way to get a *private* rss feed of my friends lists onto google reader and the like. Not that I'm keeping up with my rss feeds recently, but at least that puts everything in one place...

[annathepiper]

Yeah, the lack of ability to do authenticated feeds on Google Reader has frustrated me, too.

Of course though the problem with THAT is that you'd have to trust Google Reader with your LJ credentials and that's its own set of problems. The best compromise I've been able to find so far is to have Mail.app on my Mac pull my LJ Friends list down into itself, since that way at least I can get authenticated posts.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

I have one, but I can't remember the last time I posted on it. AFAIK, there's no way to crosspost from LJ to DW, as opposed to from DW to LJ, so I've never really done anything with the DW account.

Inertia, mostly, because I think most of my FL here is on DW as well.

[annathepiper]

Yeah, LJ has no ability to crosspost out to other sites. Your only options if you want to crosspost are 1) start from Dreamwidth, 2) start from a different external source such as a Wordpress blog, or 3) get a client that lets you crosspost to as many sites as you like.

Mostly I'm trying to just get a sense of who all might be starting to shift primarily over to Dreamwidth since I'm thinking I'll make my reading list there focus on the people who prefer to post there, and start culling things here. (But I won't drop anybody who's sticking here.)

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

That makes sense.

My FL seems to go through another iteration of "oh, god, LJ's ruining everything, we're all going to DW" about once a year. Very few folks ever seem to actually abandon LJ altogether, though [g].

[annathepiper]

Indeed, I see the same cycles of this over and over.

Someone else I follow here on LJ brought up an excellent point, though: if you happen to be an author or otherwise involved in a creative endeavor that you're trying to bring attention to, especially if you have a lot of people looking for information about your work, you kinda can't bail on LJ even if you have issues with things they're doing. The size of their userbase, especially if it's now able to pull in people off of Facebook's much, much larger userbase, is too big to ignore.

I'm very small fry as authors go, but this struck a chord with me.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I'm even smaller fry (not being published yet), but I don't want to lose the connections I have here.

[gerimaple.livejournal.com]

I thought long and hard about it during the last permanent account sale, and decided against purchasing one. While I trust LJ more than FB when it comes to security and privacy, LJ screws up often enough that I wanted to be able to retain the ability to tell them to 'bite me' if at some point they do something particularly egregious. I haven't really tried DW much, other than using OpenID to comment on a couple of posts during GenderFail. Chances are pretty good that my handle won't be taken, but better safe than sorry I suppose. You said something about having invite codes to spare?

[annathepiper]

Yes, I have several. Want one?

[gerimaple.livejournal.com]

Yes, please.

[annathepiper]

Okay! On the way!

[annathepiper]

I saw, yeah! Thanks. :)