Others cling to LJ just like they did to maillists and the usenet in the past.
That's a bit unfair to be honest. I'm not clinging to LJ - I'm staying there mostly because lo, I actually have friends outside of fandom and while fandom is part of my life, it isn't actually everything. What shocking concepts.
They feel like they don't matter enough as soon as they see DW mentioned on a flist and hate users who only allow comments on DW, because using OpenID is either "too complicated" or "giving in to the new enemy that is DW"
You can easily flip that over because no doubt there are DW folk who have struck friends off for not following like sheeple, refusing to lower themselves to sign into LJ to comment to friends who've decided they want to stay put. I have no problem with anyone being a devotee of DW - diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks and all, but why should the onus be on me to bend over backwards to check in with people who've decided to leave? Relationships are two-way.
Since pretty much anything I post on DW will be posted on LJ too, I fully intend to allow comments only on LJ, since that is what serves the largest section of my interests as I see it at present.
I don't see DW as 'the enemy', just as another service that I might grow to love and that might serve a specific section of my interests. I just wish that people who are converts to DW would stop talking about LJ like it is the enemy - it's not. It's just a service that doesn't serve their interests any more and one has been created here that does. It really doesn't have to be one or the other if both sides try being more flexible.
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That's a bit unfair to be honest. I'm not clinging to LJ - I'm staying there mostly because lo, I actually have friends outside of fandom and while fandom is part of my life, it isn't actually everything. What shocking concepts.
They feel like they don't matter enough as soon as they see DW mentioned on a flist and hate users who only allow comments on DW, because using OpenID is either "too complicated" or "giving in to the new enemy that is DW"
You can easily flip that over because no doubt there are DW folk who have struck friends off for not following like sheeple, refusing to lower themselves to sign into LJ to comment to friends who've decided they want to stay put. I have no problem with anyone being a devotee of DW - diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks and all, but why should the onus be on me to bend over backwards to check in with people who've decided to leave? Relationships are two-way.
Since pretty much anything I post on DW will be posted on LJ too, I fully intend to allow comments only on LJ, since that is what serves the largest section of my interests as I see it at present.
I don't see DW as 'the enemy', just as another service that I might grow to love and that might serve a specific section of my interests. I just wish that people who are converts to DW would stop talking about LJ like it is the enemy - it's not. It's just a service that doesn't serve their interests any more and one has been created here that does. It really doesn't have to be one or the other if both sides try being more flexible.