THE IDES OF MARCH (2013 EDITION)
Mar. 18th, 2013 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogThis blog turned eight years old on Friday.
Or maybe I should say my blogging activity started eight years ago Friday. "This blog" is a loaded term, seeing as how it comprises two continuous LJ blogs and a parallel Dreamwidth blog.
Anyway, given the state of LJ today, just being here feels like an accomplishment. A lot of people I’ve met here have moved on to Facebook or Dreamwidth or Tumblr, often out of anger. Every time LJ gets a DDoS attack, or introduces a new change, it’s usually the last straw for somebody, and it gets a little quieter.
I’ve remarked on this in past anniversary posts – usually by explaining why I’m still here. Which typically breaks down to two reasons: (1) the things that are driving people off LJ don’t bother me very much, and (2) it’s been generally quiet here since I started this thing.
Those two reasons are still in play. But so, I admit, is a third reason: inertia. LJ is still my preferred format for posting anything more complicated than a GIF or a quick music video (and I still rely on a lot of those here anyway) – long rants, serials, and other things that don’t work as well on Facebook or G+. Put another way, I need a place to put stuff like that, and if not on LJ, where?
Okay, yes, Dreamwidth, but that’s more or less the same thing, since I can cross-post easily enough. (I’m doing it right now, in fact.)
But I confess I do tend to spend more time on Facebook these days. I’m making more new friends there than I’ve made here in a long time, and interacting with them more. But again, it’s a limited platform.
So I don’t intend to quit LJ/Dreamwidth, if only because I have a need for this kind of format. But I might go ahead and let my paid LJ account lapse.
Meanwhile, for those of you planning to bail on LJ I suppose it’s appropriate to mention where else I can be found at the moment.
1. Dreamwidth
2. Facebook
3. Tumblr (for my NSFW stuff).
Actually I rather like the Tumblr format, and I’d probably move this blog there if it wasn’t for Tumblr being even less reliable than LJ. (You think LJ has outage problems? You should see what happens when Tumblr fails. And they don’t even have the luxury of being able to blame Russian Mafia hackers.)
Anyway, for those of you still around, thanks for tuning in. Broadcasts will continue as normal.
CONSUMER TIP: If you want to friend me on Facebook, be sure to let me know who you are if yr Facebook name is different from yr LJ handle. I don't add people I don't know, and I've let more than a few friend requests lapse because I didn't know that was an LJ person on the line.
Still here,
This is dF
Or maybe I should say my blogging activity started eight years ago Friday. "This blog" is a loaded term, seeing as how it comprises two continuous LJ blogs and a parallel Dreamwidth blog.
Anyway, given the state of LJ today, just being here feels like an accomplishment. A lot of people I’ve met here have moved on to Facebook or Dreamwidth or Tumblr, often out of anger. Every time LJ gets a DDoS attack, or introduces a new change, it’s usually the last straw for somebody, and it gets a little quieter.
I’ve remarked on this in past anniversary posts – usually by explaining why I’m still here. Which typically breaks down to two reasons: (1) the things that are driving people off LJ don’t bother me very much, and (2) it’s been generally quiet here since I started this thing.
Those two reasons are still in play. But so, I admit, is a third reason: inertia. LJ is still my preferred format for posting anything more complicated than a GIF or a quick music video (and I still rely on a lot of those here anyway) – long rants, serials, and other things that don’t work as well on Facebook or G+. Put another way, I need a place to put stuff like that, and if not on LJ, where?
Okay, yes, Dreamwidth, but that’s more or less the same thing, since I can cross-post easily enough. (I’m doing it right now, in fact.)
But I confess I do tend to spend more time on Facebook these days. I’m making more new friends there than I’ve made here in a long time, and interacting with them more. But again, it’s a limited platform.
So I don’t intend to quit LJ/Dreamwidth, if only because I have a need for this kind of format. But I might go ahead and let my paid LJ account lapse.
Meanwhile, for those of you planning to bail on LJ I suppose it’s appropriate to mention where else I can be found at the moment.
1. Dreamwidth
2. Facebook
3. Tumblr (for my NSFW stuff).
Actually I rather like the Tumblr format, and I’d probably move this blog there if it wasn’t for Tumblr being even less reliable than LJ. (You think LJ has outage problems? You should see what happens when Tumblr fails. And they don’t even have the luxury of being able to blame Russian Mafia hackers.)
Anyway, for those of you still around, thanks for tuning in. Broadcasts will continue as normal.
CONSUMER TIP: If you want to friend me on Facebook, be sure to let me know who you are if yr Facebook name is different from yr LJ handle. I don't add people I don't know, and I've let more than a few friend requests lapse because I didn't know that was an LJ person on the line.
Still here,
This is dF
