So, this Dreamwidth thing...

[johnridley]

I just clicked on a link to go check it out, since it's passed my "well, people have been talking about it for over a year now" "not a flash fad" filter.

Uh, it's a clone of LiveJournal. So why are people setting up both LJ and DW accounts? What's the point? I don't get it. Unless people are really excited that it's open source or something.

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[johnridley.livejournal.com]

Hm. While I kind of knee-jerked about this when I first saw it, now it seems like a complete non-event to me. Totally ignorable. And if you have any bastion in place against Facebook anyway (and you should if you care at all about privacy) it shouldn't affect you. AFAIK unless you actually tell LJ what your FB account is, it doesn't do anything.

Mainly it only bothered me because I thought that here, at least, was ONE place on the internet where I wouldn't see the Facebook logo.

[sraun]

One of the issues w/ the Facebook / Twitter auto-repost is that it can be done by both the original poster, or by any commenter. Many people see privacy implications in 'a comment to my locked post got cross-posted to Facebook' - I can see this being especially true if the commenter quoted some of the original post in the comment.

DW seems to be where my friends that are unhappy with LJ are mostly moving, so I've picked up sraun.dreamwidth.org. I need to do some work with filters, so that I'm only reading the cross-posters on one site. There are some postings only happening on DW that I do want to read.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

Fair enough, that does seem a bit over the top. I guess I don't have any particular loyalty to LJ, I wouldn't care if everyone wanted to move to Dreamwidth, InsaneJournal, or whatever. The look and feel of LJ does fit what I want in a community far better than Facebook though. LJ feels like a gathering of friends; Facebook seems like a trival shouting match. But many sites copy LJ's code so whichever of them gets used is OK by me.

I'll have to look into DreamWidth's so called "promises" and why people believe them. Have any pointers for those?