Because I am an evidence-driven person

[drwex]

I'd like my LJ-centric readers primarily to comment. I get far more comments there than here (dreamwidth).

Some of the people who migrated to DW after the LJ servers were initially moved into Russian territory, like myself, have been assiduously cross-posting and permitting comments there. Recently LJ pushed out a new set of terms, the only authoritative version of which is in Cyrillic. You can read their translation or Google's and you must agree to that translation prior to continuing to use your LJ account. At a minimum it seems weird to force me to agree to something that the author themselves asserts is non-authoritative.

People have used terms like "sketchy" to describe the agreement and the corporate behavior behind it. Nothing I read in either translation seemed particularly sketchy. And when you get down to it the fact that Putin's thugs now have physical access to the servers renders any user agreement moot. They'll take what they want and decide afterward how big a trail of bodies to leave.

Still, it's increasing the weight on the "get out of Dodge" side. Some people have reacted to that by cancelling and/or deleting their LJs. I'm likely to cancel my paid sub there once I de-lame. Another step has been to turn off comments on the LJ side, forcing people who want to comment to click through the link to the DW side where they can comment.

DW allows you to subscribe to, and give access to, LJ accounts so this behavior doesn't force anyone who wants to comment to create a DW account. The question, dear readers, is whether you'd object to or be less likely to comment if I took the same route and closed comments on the LJ side.

What say ye?

Comments

[dpolicar]

Unlikely to change my behavior. I'm migrating off, myself.

[ckd]

I burned mine to the ground. No content left except for pointer posts.

I also removed all LJ-account access to DW, which I'd been meaning to do anyway. AFAICT, the owners of an OpenID URL can authenticate as it without any effort; I don't see any reason to make it trivial for SUP to read my locked DW posts.

[drwex]

I saw you torched yours. I'm unlikely to do that, at least not for some time. I also have no illusions that anything I own is secure against any entity with the resources of a large nation available to it.

[chhotii]

Happy to bring the discussion over to the DW side. I've been continuing to read blogs through LJ, rather than thru DW, because none of my friends on DW don't also have an LJ presence that they cross-post to. But that's likely to change as people become increasingly uncomfortable with LJ.

[mizarchivist]

I've been feeling the "ohhhhhhhgodno" of LJ and been similarly xposting to there. It's been hard to repopulate the DW parallel friends, but maybe it'll pick up soon?

I can comment here. Obvs. No prob. I still am more comfortable with LJ format, sigh. Oh, also think I'm going to cancel my paid sub. So many icons gone, but I can survive. I've not repopulated any icons here at alllll.

[drwex]

Hm, when I pulled my content across I got the icons, but maybe I have fewer?

[mizarchivist]

I have 105 icons in LJ. I decided not to import them when I came over... because? I don't know. Because.

[vibrantabyss.livejournal.com]

easy as pie, so fine by me

[vibrantabyss.livejournal.com]

ah one downside is cannot edit comments....

I am waffly on migrating, mostly because I have a perm account over in LJ land. I suppose I will make do with a free one here....