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[cherry]

So, a majority of people appear to be migrating to DreamWidth. I, however, am not cool enough to do so. (Is anyone else having flashbacks to when LJ was invite-only?)

I have recently (re)rediscovered that I have Twitter -- the second last entry was from last summer, lamenting my early-onset senility for forgetting it the first time. Note: I am neither witty nor erudite at the best of times, and apparently brevity is not the soul of my personal wit.



In other news, I am staring blankly at Final Cut Pro. I would dearly like to actually vid something, however, I appear to be at this strange crossroads of over-inspiration. I have so many ideas that none of them are actually speaking to me, or inspiring me, severely curtailing my ability to actually work on them.

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[elynross.livejournal.com]

Here's a good post from synecdochic talking about the state of Dreamwidth, if you're interested.

Invite codes are very limited, and being mostly randomly handed out. You can make an openID there at any point that lets you subscribe to people, comment, and have up to 6 icons (so far), although you can't post. Once it's out of open beta, they'll still keep a handle on invite codes, so as to try and maintain their income stream, but $3 for a basic paid account bypasses the invite, and accounts can lapse back to free later.

But that's all apart from whether you feel any need to move, at all. DW plans to have easy crossposting to LJ, and a manner of subscribing/creating feeds for LJ posts so basically those on DW can integrate their flists to one, and it sounds to me like it won't be as likely to split things up as current alternatives.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info!

I'm hoping my flist doesn't end up scattered all over the place. I hardly ever remember to update one journal. Two would be asking too much. I'm... really probably not a good candidate for invite codes, in all honesty. Yesterday, I almost made a post about yogurt. With pictures. (My yogurt now comes in an 'Easy Use' tub. I am trying to figure out what people were Doing Wrong before.)

[elynross.livejournal.com]

I'll have you know I've made posts about bagels. With pictures. *g* ...do you suppose it has to do with getting the last bits of yogurt out? How is it different than it was? O.o

I can only update two because I do them both at the same time, with semagic. *g* Eventually, DW plans to have that built in to their posting interface, I think.

A lot of people, if not most, who are setting up at DW seem to be planning to continue to crosspost, at least as long as they still have people they want to stay connected to at LJ (I know I plan to). Some are planning to direct comments only to DW; I haven't decided about that, yet. I get not wanting to split up conversations; at the same time, I don't know that I'm entirely comfortable telling people "you have to have a DW account, or register your openID there, if you want to comment to me."

And I know that if you're on DW, they're hoping to have it set up to easily access your LJ flist in a way that will just merge it with your DW reading list. So, we'll see!

[elynross.livejournal.com]

aaaand I really have to go to bed, I'm losing track of conversations and repeating myself. *facepalm*