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Experiment in Cross Posting
As a couple of you have noticed already, I now have an account at dreamwidth. I've imported my lj and will be cross posting between the two for the forseeable future. My username on livejournal is just plain andraste, which fills me with glee!
If you have a dreamwidth journal that's identical in content to your livejournal I'd prefer to read you on DWth to avoid the add banners. If you're staying on LJ I have no problem with reading you there. For the moment I will allow comments on posts at both sites; it's conceivable that may change in the future. I have no idea how cross posting polls works, if it works at all, but I'll find out when I need to know.
I've paid for a year of my new DWth account, while my LJ account will remain a free Plus account. This is because I like Dreamwidth's business plan and wish to support them with my money, whereas I think LJ's add-supported model is wrongheaded.
Many people have pointed out that Dreamwidth's business plan and position on adds may change in the future. To which I say: but so what? How is that an argument against getting a Dreamwidth journal now? At this moment, I like Dreamwidth's set-up better than Livejournal's. If I don't like it next year, I'm free to move - back to Livejournal if I've decided they have a better service, or onwards to somewhere else. I've moved my fannish activity from mailing lists and message boards to lj, and I can easily move it somewhere else in future.
Annoyingly, multiverse is taken as a username on Dreamwidth, so I still have to come up with something to call the Multiverse mirror community I'm planning to set up there. I could just stick with multiverse5000, I guess.
If you have a dreamwidth journal that's identical in content to your livejournal I'd prefer to read you on DWth to avoid the add banners. If you're staying on LJ I have no problem with reading you there. For the moment I will allow comments on posts at both sites; it's conceivable that may change in the future. I have no idea how cross posting polls works, if it works at all, but I'll find out when I need to know.
I've paid for a year of my new DWth account, while my LJ account will remain a free Plus account. This is because I like Dreamwidth's business plan and wish to support them with my money, whereas I think LJ's add-supported model is wrongheaded.
Many people have pointed out that Dreamwidth's business plan and position on adds may change in the future. To which I say: but so what? How is that an argument against getting a Dreamwidth journal now? At this moment, I like Dreamwidth's set-up better than Livejournal's. If I don't like it next year, I'm free to move - back to Livejournal if I've decided they have a better service, or onwards to somewhere else. I've moved my fannish activity from mailing lists and message boards to lj, and I can easily move it somewhere else in future.
Annoyingly, multiverse is taken as a username on Dreamwidth, so I still have to come up with something to call the Multiverse mirror community I'm planning to set up there. I could just stick with multiverse5000, I guess.