migration imminent

[prof_pangaea]

re: livejournal's new facebook and twitter connect "feature", also known as "what is this absolute fuckery?": anyone who wants to use that feature on any entry of mine, locked or unlocked, please feel free to defriend me right now. anyone not on my flist who wants to use that feature on any entry of mine: if i find out, i will ban you. i have never banned anyone from my journal, ever, but this feature is an invasion of privacy that is so blatant is astonishes me, and i don't want to be part of it.

it's quite likely i will take this failtastic policy as the impetus to finally set up my dreamwidth account all nice and proper and start posting from there. feel free to follow me over there, whether i have you friended or not. i don't lock much content in any case. but when i do, weirdly enough, i don't want random people on facebook and twitter to be able to read excerpts of it. crazy, i know!

ngl, i was avoiding moving from lj. because i've been here a long time, because this is where the comms are, because dreamwidth is a bit of a shit name for a social networking/blogging site. but hey, i'll take a shit name over not being able to control where my content is posted while being bombarded by invasive pop-up ads for inane trash that make me long for the destruction of western civilisation.

Comments

[nonelvis]

Would you crosspost from Dreamwidth and shut off comments here, or would you only be posting on Dreamwidth?

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

i'm sure i'll crosspost. dunno about comments yet.

[bakadragon.livejournal.com]

The only reason I could see using the xpost feature would be on my own posts, not on anyone else's. And only for the stuff that I would be xosting for awesomeness anyway. I can't post half the stuff I want to on FB 'cause of parents and conservative friends on there anyway.

What we need to do is just get rid of all this crap and start setting up the telepathic links. 'Cause it's 2010 and about time for it, dagnabbit XD

[drho.livejournal.com]

I DON'T WANNA GOOOOOOOO, but livejournal is being so freaking stupid. Are they just trolling everyone and giggling over the potential harm this is going to do?

[zougla.livejournal.com]

i'm not sure i'm getting it. does it mean you can post comments left by others on your own journal? you can post comments from other people's journal? it's a tad confusing in the post you linked.

[drho.livejournal.com]

You can crosspost any of your own comments, even your comments on someone's locked journal entries.

[zougla.livejournal.com]

oh, that is weird... what is it with these social network programmers!? It's as if they lack any real social skills and/or some sense of boundaries.

Hmm, I guess that's what happens when social outcast computer geeks design the internets.

[kels.livejournal.com]

This post explains it better: http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/902080.html

[kels.livejournal.com]

Dammit, I don't want to leave LJ. All of my friends are here! This is really creepy, though. I mean, I don't think that I personally have anything to worry about, but still...

How did you get a Dreamwidth invite code, btw?