A bit of Friends list cleanup

[annathepiper]

FYI, anybody who may have been recently defriended by me--don't freak, I'm not cranky at anybody, I'm just removing redundant or expired reading sources. Chances are if I've defriended you here, I'm now reading you either via a Wordpress blog or on Dreamwidth. Or, I'm following you on Twitter or Facebook or Google+.

Anybody who's more regularly following me elsewhere, feel free to drop me from here, too. Cheers all.

ETA: And oh yeah--I never post any locked content here anymore anyway, so you won't be missing anything. (I've come to feel that if it ought to go under a filter, chances are I don't really want to be posting it on the net to begin with.)

Comments

[cruisedirector]

*cries* But 99 percent of my friends are still here rather than DW, and I can't read locked entries from elsewhere when I'm here, which is usually the only flist I can get to. You don't want to just filter us out here?

[annathepiper]

Aww! Well, in your particular case I'll put you back if you really want. Though I never post anything locked anymore anyway, so you wouldn't have been missing anything regardless. Thanks for checking with me. :)

(For the record, I'm reading you over on Dreamwidth.)

[cruisedirector]

If you never lock, I guess it doesn't matter! I just know I am missing posts by friends who defriended me here to read on DW, when I rarely get to my DW list and I can only get their public entries to import here!

[annathepiper]

*nodnod* I've been pulling Dreamwidth journals individually down into my Mail.app on my Mac since it can subscribe to RSS and it talks to locked feeds, too. So that stands in for me reading the Dreamwidth Reading Page. It's slower than checking directly in a web browser, but I'm reasonably assured I won't miss anything.

[maellenkleth]

Mmm, yeah, heard and agreed anent locked content. Mind'ee, that does cramp the style of some conversations being unavoidably held over great distances....

Hugs anyway, the world needs more of 'em.

[annathepiper]

Hugs!

[maellenkleth]

:grins happily from under a warm pile of quilts and considers that somehow, always, good folks'll make things work. ^_^

[cruisedirector]

I have never tried to see whether Gmail can be set up to do that. I tend to read the flist on the flist page!

[annathepiper]

Gmail doesn't do RSS as far as I know, that's what Google Reader is for. And unfortunately Google Reader doesn't do locked feeds. :( I've generally found that web-based RSS clients won't do locked feeds like a Livejournal; if you want an RSS client that does that, it has to be local to your machine.

(That said, I do have high-priority LJs that I only read for public content plugged into my Google Reader.)

[janne.livejournal.com]

Alas for the decline and fall of locked posts... The future is looking ever more Big Brother and less Star Trek. *sigh*

[annathepiper]

Quite. This is only partly in reaction to LJ's recent Fail in the realm of making sure your locked stuff stays locked; it's just as much a question of social networks becoming so prevalent that the trend has gone towards everything about a person being online and visible.

And, well, I don't WANT every single little thing about me to be visible.