Is this thing on? (aka, Dreamwidth)
I have been futzing around with Dreamwidth on and off for the last week or two. It turns out I was using such an archaic LJ style that pretty much nothing really looks like that anymore. I found something relatively close, though.
I still don't quite understand how things work between the two (ie, do I need to still use LJ to read LJ friends? And, if I post this here on DW, will there also be a post on LJ, or will it just exist here? (And if the former, not the latter, then why bother moving at all?)
Right now my DW import gave friends access to basically everyone who had friends access on LJ, but I'm thinking that only 1/7 of you are still honestly out there, so trying to figure out whether to just unfriend anyone who hasn't posted to LJ since, say, 2013? Not sure what makes sense there. I also know that some people have LJ accounts just to read friends pages and don't post themselves, so that might also be hard to evaluate.
I need to look into LJ archiving tools too. This is such a weird project in some ways. Sometimes I wonder if organizing digital journals is actually any easier than organizing paper journals.
I still don't quite understand how things work between the two (ie, do I need to still use LJ to read LJ friends? And, if I post this here on DW, will there also be a post on LJ, or will it just exist here? (And if the former, not the latter, then why bother moving at all?)
Right now my DW import gave friends access to basically everyone who had friends access on LJ, but I'm thinking that only 1/7 of you are still honestly out there, so trying to figure out whether to just unfriend anyone who hasn't posted to LJ since, say, 2013? Not sure what makes sense there. I also know that some people have LJ accounts just to read friends pages and don't post themselves, so that might also be hard to evaluate.
I need to look into LJ archiving tools too. This is such a weird project in some ways. Sometimes I wonder if organizing digital journals is actually any easier than organizing paper journals.
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I'm still out here. I post to DW and it auto-crossposts to my LJ.
(Starhawk from Y!PP, of long enough ago that you may well have forgotten.)
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I went through LJ last year and unfriended everybody who hadn't touched it in over, I think 2 years (looking for the later or when they last posted plus last time I saw a comment from them, thanks to gmail archive searching). I re-added only one in like 200 who was reading but hadn't commented or posting in that long.
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I'm still trying to figure out, also, the "my data is now on Russian servers" factor and what that means in terms of crossposting.
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If I ever find that the number of LJ comments drops down low enough, I'll probably stop crossposting.
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In terms of adjusting, DW will have given read access to your friends via their LJ openid, but I haven't yet seen a way to tell it that an LJ openid matches up with a DW account, so anyone who is now over hear wouldn't have access to locked entries if they are logged in as their DW selves.
I used the "ljarchive" application to make a backup of everything, but still haven't figured out how I would then get the info back out of it in an actually useful way.
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For example, when you imported you got cellio.livejournal.com on your list. I'm posting this as cellio (native DW), so cellio.LJ's privs don't mean anything.
What I'm doing is this: when I find a native DW account for someone I know from LJ, I subscribe and grant access for that account and then I drop the LJ account. I figure people with DW accounts are going to use them, like I do, and would only log in here using an LJ account if either they don't have DW accounts or they do but people haven't added them.
If you want to read LJ, you need to go there and log in. Once the dust settles, I'm going to drop (on LJ) the people who migrated here and are cross-posting -- I don't need to see those posts twice.
Looks like you got the cross-posting sorted out.
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I think you have to cross post deliberately. Haven't tried it yet.
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Life is weird.