THE WAR ON LIVEJOURNAL

[defrog]

There has been talk about LiveJournal, the DDoS attacks and the exodus of some users to Dreamwidth, Blogger and other sites not currently on the Kremlin hit list (or whoever is behind it).

Personally, I can’t be too hard on LiveJournal, partly because it’s not their fault they’ve been singled out for attack, and partly because I know enough about DDoS attacks to know that whatever safeguards you put up to defend against them or mitigate their impact, if someone wants to take you offline badly enough, they can and will do it, even if just for a little while, unless you have the resources of, say, a major ISP.

Also, the revelation that the wave of attacks is apparently targeted at Russian bloggers posting political stuff makes it hard for me to abandon LJ on general principle.

Okay – the fact that I’m a paid user who just renewed his account a week ago is also a factor. So it’s not like I’m being noble about this or anything.

Anyway, back when a lot of people were convinced LJ was going to go belly up when SixApart sold it to SUP, some people defected to Dreamwidth, or set up accounts there just in case. I’ve had my own account here (or rather there),  for a couple of years now, though the only thing I’ve done with it is create a backup of my current LJ (and my previous LJ, so it’s my entire bloggery career all in one place – hurrah!). And one good thing to say about Dreamwidth is that it enables easy crossposting to LJ (provided yr not crossposting embedded videos – it seems a little flaky on that score, but it’s manageable. Also, cross-posting user icons seems to be out).

So, the obvious solution seems to be to broadcast from Dreamwidth and keep both blogs running that way. Which is what I’ll be doing – at least for a little while, to see how it works. From the reader’s POV, you won’t notice the difference apart from the little cross-post notifications.

And it goes without saying that if yr on Dreamwidth, you can add me at any time.

Carry on.

Business as usual,

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